Keynote Speakers
Neil Briscombe
The Human and the Loop, In On and Around
Neil has over 30 years of experience directing all engineering phases from feasibility studies to acceptance testing. Government agency customers include the UK Ministry of Defense, Technology Strategy Board, Office of Communications, UK Innovate, Environment Agency, British National Space Centre and the European Commission. He is internationally known as a leader in the production of communications and security related Decision Support, Situational Awareness and simulation systems especially using Semantic Web technologies and various forms of Artificial Intelligence as well as Natural Language Processing. Highlighted work that Neil conceived and led relevant to the workshop include the following:
- ‘TROOPER’ automated information sharing between Analysts, Ops Managers and strategic Key Decision Makers. It developed new ways of working and CSOC Decision Support concept demonstrators informing future options to CySAFA programme for MOD Joint Force Command.
- A Cybersecurity simulation system that evaluated the European Commission’s SWIM air traffic management Decision Support system in degraded/attacked networks for AustroControl, also used by the University of Southampton.
- ‘Dependable, Dynamic Distributed Computing’ that developed novel security and risk management tools for complex, mixed-trust, networked computer systems and delivered the first system that automated transfer knowledge about Cybersecurity risk between system developers, accreditors and battlespace Commanders.
- ‘Data Mining Across Compartments’ that developed a concept demonstrator for automatically mining, abstracting and sharing information in complex security settings, sponsored by the Counter Terrorism Centre and MOD Chief Scientist Advisor.
- ‘Semantically Enhanced Information Extraction for Improved Knowledge Superiority’ developed new concept demonstrators extracting and fusing semantic information from natural language text sources in counter-IED military intelligence settings and civil humanitarian demining for MOD’s DIF DTC.
- Defense Electronic Warfare Centre consultancy on new concepts and ways of working for automatic EW Analyst best practice elicitation and transfer.
- AKOGRIMO developed technology for mobile dynamic virtual organizations (MDVO) which adapt to changing local situations.
Neil also led the UK contributions to Northrop Grumman’s ‘Cyber Academy’ Security Architecture course used by various Government agencies and projects.
David Burke
The Paradox of Adversarial Reasoning
David Burke is a Principal Scientist at Galois, Inc., where he leads the machine cognition research program, investigating techniques for integrating human decision-making with machine intelligence (and vice versa). Since joining Galois in 2004, his work has included conducting research into logics for reasoning about trust in the design of secure systems, approaches for ensuring robust decision-making in multi-agent systems, and the development of hybrid AI techniques for system security. His recent experience include PI roles on DoD-funded projects focused on adaptive human-machine teaming, techniques for reasoning under conditions of extreme uncertainty, and adversarial modeling for cybersecurity. Other research interests include machine ethics, game theory and bio-inspired AI.