CPSICC Nexus Workshop 2024

Dr. Matthew Huber is an expert in climate change and extreme weather, large-scale ecosystem change, and climate-driven heat stress including its impacts on humans and agriculture. As Director of Institute for a Sustainable Future (ISF), he leads a transdisciplinary team of 300+ faculty members focused on research aligned with UN Sustainable Development Goals. Huber's internationally recognized scholarship explores Earth's habitability, resilience, and sustainability, delving into tropical temperatures, polar amplification of warming, and their global implications. His work emphasizes a systems-based approach, integrating climate modeling, energy, environment, economics, health, politics, and society. Huber employs cyberinfrastructure for predicting climate-driven stress on infrastructure and societies globally. His current focus involves predicting severe heat stress risks on human and agricultural health, productivity, and associated impacts on trade and infrastructure. With over 130 peer-reviewed articles, Huber's work has garnered recognition and media coverage, positioning him as a leading authority in climate science and resilience.

Dr. Surya Nepal is a senior principal research scientist at CSIRO Data61. He has been with CSIRO since 2000 and currently leads the cybersecurity and quantum systems research group comprising 70 staff and 50 PhD students. His primary area of research focuses on the development and implementation of technologies in distributed systems, with a specific emphasis on security, privacy, and trust. Dr. Nepal has over 250 peer-reviewed publications to his credit. He currently serves as the Interim Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Service Computing and is a member of the editorial board of ACM Transactions on Internet Technology. Additionally, Dr. Nepal holds the position of Deputy Research Director at the Cybersecurity Cooperative Research Centre and is also a Conjoint Professor at UNSW.

Rossitza Homan manages a diverse portfolio for the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and the intelligence community, focusing on the risk and resilience of mission-critical systems, particularly interdependent cyber-physical and social systems. Homan holds leadership positions across corporate initiatives and research portfolios at Sandia with a focus on mission-driven research, development, and applications for national security. She has held prominent technical leadership positions including a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff special appointmen and has led multi-laboratory and international teams, providing decision support to Lockheed Martin, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, and DARPA. Dr. Homan has taught at the University of Texas, led aerospace R&D at Bell Helicopter and Eclipse Aviation, and has worked at Sandia National Laboratories for 22 years.

Dongyan Xu is a Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science and Director of CERIAS, Purdue's cybersecurity research center. His research focuses on cyber and cyber-physical security. He has also made early contributions to the areas of cloud computing and peer-to-peer media streaming/distribution. He is part of the Purdue System Security Lab (PurSec).