Dr. Jim Alves-Foss is a cyber security researcher with over two decades of experience in the design and analysis of secure systems. His research experience and expertise covers a wide range of computer science and cyber security topics. Most notably he has experience with assembly language, compilers, operating systems and networks. He has conducted research into secure system architectures, formal methods, network security, cryptographic protocols, embedded system security, operating system security, and computer forensics.

His research has been supported by government agencies including the National Science Foundation, Army Research Office, Air Force Research Laboratory, DARPA and TSWG. In addition, his work has been supported by industry, including Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and Wind River.

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Dr. Jia Song is a cyber security researcher who has worked closely with Dr. Alves-Foss since 2009. She has worked on security analysis of modern microprocessors, design of security policies for security-tagged architectures, secure operating systems and automated software vulnerability analysis. Her research has been supported by the Raytheon Corporation, Air Force Research Lab , NSF, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories and DARPA.