Hey, I'm Greg
I am an...
Expert in Space Cybersecurity;
Advisor to the Aerospace and Defense Sector;
Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University &
Director of the Aerospace ADVERASRY Laboratory.
Where I...
Break Things;
Invent Resilient Space Technology &
Develop Autonomous Aerospace Systems.
Here's me in a nut{}
PhD in Cybersecurity from MIT
- Postdoc in Cyber Risk at Stanford
- Postdoc in Computer Science at MIT
- Predoc in Space Cyber at Harvard
- Forbes 30 Under 30 in Enterprise Technology
- Fulbright Scholar in Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity
- DARPA Young Faculty Award
- DARPA RISER
- Former Accenture Strategy Executive
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
"Everyone believes in something, I believe I'll go fishing."
Henry David Thoreau
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