Roy H. Campbell is Associate Dean for Information Technology of the College of Engineering, the Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Professor in the Department of Computer Science, and Director of the NSA-designated Center for Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education and Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC); previously, he was Director of the Air Force-funded Assured Cloud Computing Center in the Information Trust Institute at UIUC from 2011 to 2017. He received his Honors B.S. degree in Mathematics, with a Minor in Physics, from the University of Sussex in 1969 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1972 and 1976, respectively. Professor Campbell's research interests are the problems, engineering, and construction techniques of complex system software. Cloud computing, data analytics, big data, security, distributed systems, continuous media, and real-time control pose system challenges, especially to operating system designers. Past research includes path expressions as declarative specifications of process synchronization, real-time deadline recovery mechanisms, error recovery in asynchronous systems, streaming video for the Web, real-time Internet video distribution systems, object-oriented parallel processing operating systems, CORBA security architectures, and active spaces in ubiquitous and pervasive computing. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Charles A. Kamhoua is a researcher at the Network Security Branch of the U.S. 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 U.S. 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 100 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. He has presented over 40 invited keynote and distinguished speeches and has co-organized over 10 conferences and workshops. He has mentored more than 50 young scholars, including students, postdocs, and AFRL Summer Faculty Fellowship scholars. He has been recognized for his scholarship and leadership with numerous prestigious awards, including 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 but a few. He received a B.S. in electronics from the University of Douala (ENSET), Cameroon, in 1999, an M.S. in Telecommunication and Networking from Florida International University (FIU) in 2008, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from FIU in 2011. He is currently an advisor for the National Research Council, a member of the FIU alumni association and ACM, and a senior member of IEEE.

Kevin A. Kwiat retired in 2017 as Principal Computer Engineer with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in Rome, New York after more than 34 years of federal service. During that time, he conducted research and development in a wide range of areas, including high-reliability microcircuit selection for military systems, testability, logic and fault simulation, rad-hard microprocessors, benchmarking of experimental computer architectures, distributed processing systems, assured communications, FPGA-based reconfigurable computing, fault tolerance, survivable systems, game theory, cyber-security, and cloud computing. He received a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Mathematics from Utica College of Syracuse University, and an M.S. in Computer Engineering and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University. He holds five patents. He is co-founder and co-leader of Haloed Sun TEK of Sarasota, Florida, which is an LLC specializing in technology transfer and has joined forces with the Commercial Applications for Early Stage Advanced Research (CAESAR) Group. He is also an adjunct professor of Computer Science at the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, and a Research Associate Professor with the University at Buffalo.