About the Editors

Charles A. Kamhoua is a Senior Electronics Engineer at the Network Security Branch of the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) in Adelphi, MD, where he is responsible for conducting and directing basic research in the area of game theory applied to cyber security. Prior to joining the Army Research Laboratory, he was a researcher at the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Rome, New York, for 6 years and an educator in different academic institutions for more than 10 years. He has held visiting research positions at the University of Oxford and Harvard University. He has coauthored more than 200 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers that include 5 best paper awards. He is a coinventor of 3 patents and 4 patent applications. He has been at the forefront of several new technologies, coediting three books at Wiley-IEEE Press entitled Assured Cloud Computing, Blockchain for Distributed System Security, and Modeling and Design of Secure Internet of Things. He has presented over 60 invited keynote and distinguished speeches and has co-organized over 10 conferences and workshops. He has mentored more than 60 young scholars, including students, postdocs, and Summer Faculty Fellow. He has been recognized for his scholarship and leadership with numerous prestigious awards, including the 2019 US Army Civilian Service Commendation Medal, the 2019 Federal 100-FCW annual awards for individuals that have had an exceptional impact on federal IT, the 2019 IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Big Data (TCBD) Best Journal Paper Award, the 2018 ARL Achievement Award for leadership and outstanding contribution to the ARL Cyber Camo (cyber deception) project, the 2018 Fulbright Senior Specialist Fellowship, the 2017 AFRL Information Directorate Basic Research Award "For Outstanding Achievements in Basic Research," the 2017 Fred I. Diamond Award for the best paper published at AFRL's Information Directorate, 40 Air Force Notable Achievement Awards, the 2016 FIU Charles E. Perry Young Alumni Visionary Award, the 2015 Black Engineer of the Year Award (BEYA), the 2015 NSBE Golden Torch Award - Pioneer of the Year, and selection to the 2015 Heidelberg Laureate Forum, to name a few. He has been congratulated by the White House, the US Congress, and the Pentagon for those achievements. He received a B.S. in electronics from the University of Douala (ENSET), Cameroon, in 1999, an MS in Telecommunication and Networking from Florida International University (FIU) in 2008, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from FIU in 2011. He is currently an advisor for the National Research Council postdoc program, a member of the FIU alumni association and Sigma Xi, and a senior member of ACM and IEEE.

Laurent L. Njilla joined the Cyber Assurance Branch of the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Rome, NY, as a Research Electronics Engineer in 2015. As a researcher, he is responsible for conducting and directing basic research in the area of cyber defense, cyber physical system, cyber resiliency, hardware security, and the application of game theory, category theory, and Blockchain technology. He is the Program Manager of the Center of Excellence (CoE) in Cyber Security for the Historically Black Colleges and Universities & Minorities Institutions (HBCU/MI), and the Program Manager of the Disruptive Information Technology Program at AFRL/RI. He has coauthored over 70 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers with a best paper award. He is a coinventor of 2 patents and 3 patent applications. Coediting of two books at Wiley-IEEE Press entitled Blockchain for Distributed System Security and Modeling and Design of Secure Internet of Things. His mentorship of young students and scholars is recognized with multiple awards including Air Force Notable Achievement awards, FIU Distinguished Alumni in Government Service award, and the 2015 FIU World Ahead Graduate award. Prior to joining the AFRL, he was a Senior Systems Analyst in the industry sector for more than 10 years. He is a reviewer of multiple journals and serves on the technical program committees of several international conferences. He received his BS in Computer Science from the University of Yaoundé-1 in Yaoundé, Cameroon, an MS in Computer Engineering from the University of Central Florida (UCF) in 2005, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Florida International University (FIU) in 2015. He is a member of the National Society of Black Engineer (NSBE).

Dr. Alexander Kott serves as the ARL's Chief Scientist. In this role, he provides leadership in development of ARL technical strategy, maintaining technical quality of ARL research, and representing ARL to external technical community.

Between 2009 and 2016, he was the Chief, Network Science Division, Computational and Information Sciences Directorate, US Army Research Laboratory headquartered in Adelphi, MD.

He was responsible for a diverse portfolio of fundamental research and applied development in network science and science for cyber defense.

In particular, he played a key role in initiating the Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance, among the world-largest efforts to study interactions between networks of different types. His efforts helped start Cyber Security Collaborative Research Alliance, a unique program of creating basic science of cyber warfare.

In 2013, Dr. Kott served as the Acting Associate Director for Science and Technology of the ARL's Computational and Information Sciences Directorate; in 2015, he also served as the Acting Director of the Computational and Information Sciences Directorate.

Beginning his Government career, between 2003 and 2008, Dr. Kott served as a Defense Advanced Research Programs Agency (DARPA) Program Manager responsible for a number of large-scale advanced technology research programs. Technologies developed in programs under his management ranged from adversarial reasoning, to prediction of social and security phenomena, to command and control of robotic forces.

His earlier positions included Director of R&D at Carnegie Group, Pittsburgh, PA, and Information Technology Research Department Manager at AlliedSignal, Inc., Morristown, NJ. There, his work focused on novel information technology approaches, such as Artificial Intelligence, to complex problems in engineering design, and planning and control in manufacturing, telecommunications, and aviation industries.

Dr. Kott received the Secretary of Defense Exceptional Public Service Award and accompanying Exceptional Public Service Medal, in October 2008.

He earned his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA in 1989, where his research proposed AI approaches to innovative design of complex systems.

He has published over 80 technical papers and served as the initiator, coauthor, and primary editor of over 10 books, including Advanced Technology Concepts for Command and Control, 2004; Information Warfare and Organizational Decision Process, 2006; Adversarial Reasoning: Computational Approaches to Reading the Opponent's Mind, 2006; The Battle of Cognition: The Future Information-Rich Warfare and the Mind of the Commander, 2007; Estimating Impact: A Handbook of Computational Methods and Models for Anticipating Economic, Social, Political and Security Effects in International Interventions, 2010; Cyber Defense and Situational Awareness, 2015; Cyber Security of SCADA and other Industrial Control Systems, 2016; and Cyber Resilience (2019).

Sachin Shetty is an Associate Director in the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center at Old Dominion University. He holds a joint appointment as an Associate Professor with the Department of Computational, Modeling and Simulation Engineering. Sachin Shetty received his PhD in Modeling and Simulation from the Old Dominion University in 2007. Prior to joining Old Dominion University, he was an Associate Professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Tennessee State University. He was also the associate director of the Tennessee Interdisciplinary Graduate Engineering Research Institute and directed the Cyber Security laboratory at Tennessee State University. He also holds a dual appointment as an Engineer at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane, IN. His research interests lie at the intersection of computer networking, network security, and machine learning. He has published over 200 research articles in journals and conference proceedings. He has also edited four books in the areas of blockchain, Internet of Things, moving target defense, and dynamic spectrum access. Two of his research papers have been selected at the top 50 Blockchain academic papers in 2018. His laboratory conducts cloud and mobile security research and has received over $12 million in funding from National Science Foundation, Air Office of Scientific Research, Air Force Research Lab, Office of Naval Research, Department of Homeland Security, and Boeing. He is the site lead on the DoD Cyber Security Center of Excellence, the Department of Homeland Security National Center of Excellence, the Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute (CIRI), and Department of Energy, Cyber Resilient Energy Delivery Consortium (CREDC). He is the recipient of Fulbright Specialist award, EPRI Cybersecurity Research Challenge award, DHS Scientific Leadership Award, and has been inducted in Tennessee State University's million dollar club. He has served on the technical program committee for ACM CCS, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICDCN, and IEEE ICCCN. He is a Senior Member of...