Dr. Gregory Amis, Ph.D.
Greg is a complexity scientist at Icosystem Corporation in Cambridge, MA, where his company develops modeling, simulation, and optimization solutions for government and private-sector clients across a broad range of industries. His focus at Icosystem is developing Agent-based Simulations (ABS), a powerful method for analyzing, evaluating, and designing complex systems, such as workforces, traffic systems, and consumer markets. Greg’s background is in developing computational models of brain function and applying them to challenging problems in machine learning and artificial intelligence. Greg also has training and experience in software engineering, user interface design, and psychology. Greg is the lead developer for SENDSim.
Theodore Belding
Theodore Belding has 17 years of experience in optimization, computer simulation and data mining. He is an expert in genetic algorithms, agent-based modeling, and complex systems analysis. Ted is President of Belding Consulting, Inc.: www.beldingconsulting.com and an Associate at VGO Associates: www.vgoassociates.com. See a recent article about Ted and his mentor, John Holland, called “Natural Intelligence” covering interesting aspects of cyberspace-empowered genetic programming. Ted has been an advisor to SENDS since June, 2010.
John L. (“Jack”) Cole
Jack is a Physical Scientist with the ARL Network Science Division focusing on Computer Network Defense. Jack chairs the IEEE Task Force on Network Science (http://ieeens.org) and its associated workshop (http://ieee-nsw.org), and has been an advisor to SENDS since June, 2010.
Jack Holt
Jack is a long-time communication professional, member of the Georgetown University faculty, and former Sr. Strategist for Emerging Media, Office of the Secretary of Defense Public Affairs Office. Jack is an advisor to SENDS and has been a frequent contributor to the SENDS Blog. He is a former active-duty US Army Public Affairs Officer.
Charles Hunt
Charles is a 20-year veteran of the US Department of the Interior. He is currently the World War I Regional Director for the American Battle Monuments Commission in Europe. Charles is the co-author of Big Thicket People (University of Texas Press, 2008) and Houston Atlas of Biodiversity (Texas A&M University Press, 2007), and is interested in exploring how cyberspace applications can use heritage and the power of places to unify the people of the United States. Charles was a contributor to the SENDS Science of Cyberspace White Paper draft.
Sandy Klausner
Sandy has spent the last 20+ years developing Cubicon: an executable design language, a next-generation computing platform, and Context-aware Internet architecture. His career as an inventor began at age 22, when he founded his first technology venture (BioElectronics) developing biomedical instruments in the fields of EEG/EMG and audiometry. At age 26, he founded Automated Intelligence Corporation (AIC) that introduced the Logic One building automation system. Honeywell acquired Logic One which remains their premier product line, now controlling over 300,000 buildings worldwide. Engineering on Logic One revealed a revolutionary software engineering science that has evolved into Cubicon. Sandy has been a frequent contributor to the SENDS Blog.
Dr. John Ohab, Ph.D.
Dr. Ohab is a new technology strategist at OMNITEC Solutions Inc., providing research and evaluation of web technology initiatives for the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD). John also coordinates DOD’s award-winning Armed with Science project, a cross-agency effort to engage the public on military science and technology topics using social media. John received his B.S. in Biopsychology from UC Santa Barbara in 2002 and his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from UCLA in 2007. His doctoral work in Dr. S. Thomas Carmichael’s lab focused on the role of adult neural stem cells in brain repair after stroke. John was born and raised in Tempe, Arizona, experienced a moderately successful run in high school varsity tennis, and would do almost anything for one Arizona Cardinals Super Bowl victory
Dr. James L. Olds, Ph.D.
Dr. Olds is the Director of the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at George Mason University. Concurrently he is Chair of the Department of Molecular Neuroscience and the Shelley Krasnow University Professor of Molecular Neuroscience. Dr. Olds received his bachelor’s degree from Amherst College in Chemistry and Ph.D. in neurosciences from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He completed his postdoctoral training at NIH. His research is focused on the mechanisms for learning and memory in mammalian brains. He is the tenth editor-in-chief of The Biological Bulletin, one of the oldest peer-reviewed scientific journals, published by the MBL in Woods Hole. Dr. Olds has served as an advisor to SENDS since its inception in 2009.
Shane Powell
Shane is a Principle Multi-Discipline Engineer with Raytheon Network Centric Systems in Saint Petersburg, Florida. Specializing in Information Security, his work revolves around detailed vulnerability assessment and post intrusion analysis, with the objective of using knowledge gained from those activities to engineer vulnerability remediation solutions for enterprise systems. Additional areas of study and research involve the design and implementation of converged, location aware physical and logical access control systems, and their affect on user interactions and environments.
Lance Spitzner
Lance is the Director of the Honeynet Project, an international, non-profit (501c3) research organization dedicated to improving the security of the Internet at no cost to the public. He is a former US Army officer and currently serves as an advisor to US Air Force’s Institute of Technology’s Center for Cyberspace Research Distinguished Review Board. Lance also serves as an advisor to SENDS.
Ken Steinberg
Ken is the Chief Executive Officer of Cambridge Research and Development. Ken’s 20+ year career includes executive and scientific contributions at firms such as the National Science Foundation, Digital Equipment, Hughes, Hitachi, Savant Protection and Softbank. In the field of cyber-security he is widely renowned for developing algorithms which eliminate computer virus spread. Ken has been an advisor to SENDS since its inception in 2009.
Nelson Stewart
Nelson has 16 years of teaching experience at various grade levels in the Hamilton, Ontario community. He has also been performing for twenty-five years in a wide variety of musical forms and is an accomplished singer, songwriter, and producer. He is the front man and a lead performer for his Celtic music band, The Rogues. Nelson has been an early adopter in the use of cyberspace socio-technological convergence to popularize both the Celtic music genre and the bands with which he has performed. Nelson was a contributor to the SENDS Science of Cyberspace White Paper draft and has been a writer for the SENDS Blog.
