Hey, I'm Greg
My research makes
Critical Infrastructure
Safe, Secure and Resilient.
Space Systems and Smart Cities are my domains
Here's me in a nut{}
PhD in Cybersecurity, Urban Science & Infrastructure Management from MIT
- Postdoc in Cyber Risk at Stanford
- Cyber Research Fellow at Harvard
- Forbes 30 Under 30 in Enterprise Technology
- Former Accenture Executive in Smart Cities
Always have time for cool project ideas, collaborations or speaking - contact me!
About Me
The Art of Breaking Things
Rather than recounting my resume (found in the Experience page), I thought it could be more fun to share a glimpse inside my head.
The Art of Breaking Things is my approach to thinking, teaching and research. By breaking things and ultimately reconstructing them, we are forced to think through how either a process or a device was originally designed and developed. This generally reveals insights about the inner workings of the object of study. You then have a fun thought experiment on your hands for how you would rebuild the system. Sometimes you realize that the way the system is currently built is clever or elegant, serving the purpose of the system. Other times, you envision entirely new mechanisms that will drastically improve the system. Regardless, without breaking things, you would never fully understand the system or push through the status quo and create something totally new. Also, breaking things is inherently fun.
This is an art rather than a science because one's exploration of the system is subjective. There are no right answers.
If there were always right answers, how can anyone be expected to think outside the box?
Education
Ph.D. in Cybersecurity, Urban Science and Infrastructure Management
September 2015 - May 2018
Dissertation Title: Cybersecurity for Urban Critical Infrastructure
Interdisciplinary PhD in Computer Science, Urban Planning and Management Science focusing on Cybersecurity for Smart Cities and Industrial Control Systems
Funded by: CyberSecurity@CSAIL, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Geospatial Data Center, and Senseable City Lab,
M.S. Columbia University
B.S. Cornell University
Forbes 30 Under 30:
Enterprise Technology
2018
Named one of the top thinkers in Enterprise Technology for work with NeuroMesh IoT Security, a vaccine for IoT devices
MIT 100K Competition
2018
Placed in MIT 100K Accelerate and Launch Competitions for NeuroMesh
Atos Blockchain Challenge
2017
NeuroMesh IoT Security won the Jury’s 2017 “Special Prize” for being the most advanced startup using innovative blockchain technology
Columbia Collaboratory Fellowship
2016 - 2017
Awarded teaching grant to develop innovative, interdisciplinary curriculum and research projects related to computer science, data analytics and policy at Columbia University
US Dept of Energy CREDC Grant
2018
Research grant for securing energy delivery system IIoT technology using blockchain-based botnets
MIT CSAIL IPRI Grant
2017 - 2019
Awarded research grant to investigate applications of AI Planning to help secure critical infrastructure
NSF Eager Grant
2016 - 2017
Awarded research grant to pursue “transformative… high risk, high payoff” investigation of cybersecurity for the Industrial Internet of Things
Lockheed Martin Fellowship
2016 - 2017
Academic fellowship to study industrial control system (SCADA, DCS, PLC) cybersecurity
"Everyone believes in something, I believe I'll go fishing."
Henry David Thoreau
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