Service

I try to be involved in the community. Here are some of the ways I do this.

Professional Organizations

• ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
• IEEE Computer Society
• IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers)
• Usenix Association

Editorial Boards

• Computers & Security

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Technical Advisory Boards

• None currently; happy to talk!

Academic Advisory Boards

• Advisory Board to “Collaborative Research: NRT: Cyber-Physical-Social System for Understanding and Thwarting the Ilicit Economy,” NSF award DGE-1828462 to the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (P.I. Jon Keller, co-P.I. Grant Crawford)

University Matters

• University Committee on Academic Computing and Communications
  • Member, 2015–2017, 2018–2019
• Academic Senate Committee on Information Technology
  • Chairperson, 2015–2017, 2018–2019
  • Member, 2017–2018
• Faculty Advisory Board, UC Davis Continuing and Professional Education
  • Member, 2017–2019
• CIO Strategic Advisory Council
  • Member, 2016–2019
• College of Engineering Information Technology Shared Services Advisory Board
  • Chairperson, 2016–2018
  • Member, 2013–2019
• Institutional representative to the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P)
  • UC Davis Institutional Representative, 2002–current
  • Member at Large of the I3P Executive Committee, 2013–current

Civic Matters

• A letter to DHS about their demanding passwords to enter the U.S. (February 21, 2017) (The Center for Democracy & Technology prepared the letter; I was one of the signers)
• Legal brief on the Apple/FBI case (March 22, 2016) (The Electronic Frontier Foundation prepared the brief; I was one of the amici)
• Encryption Letter to President Obama (May 19, 2015) (The Open Technology Institute prepared the letter; I was one of the signers)
• Member, California Cybersecurity Workforce Development and Education; member, Objective 2.3 (Undergraduate/ Graduate State and Private Schools) working group (2014–current)
• Letter to the EAC (October 13, 2009) (Aaron Burstein and Joe Hall wrote this; I was one of the signers. Normally, I don't sign things like this, but the misstatement of the results of the Top to Bottom Review seemed to me so egregious that I felt I had to)
• Letter in support of a proposed exemption to the DMCA (February 1, 2009) (J. Alex Halderman wrote this; I was one of the signers)
• Member, Electronic Recording Delivery Act (ERDA) Advisory Committee, Office of the Attorney General, California (2008–current)
• Co-author, paper on election forensics
• Testimony before the California State Senate Elections and Reapportionment Committee on SB 1723 (May 7, 2004) [PDF]

Other Stuff

• Interview by the Cybersecurity Guide
• Outstanding Teacher of the Year, College of Engineering, University of California at Davis (2015)
• Senior Member, Applied Computer Security Associates (2014–current)
• Seems I was named in BackgroundChecks.org’s list of “35 Best Computer Security Professors of 2013”
• Founder’s Award, Colloquium for Information Systems Security (2009)
• Shot by the Silver Bullet
• Letter to the Editor, Davis Enterprise, July 2, 2006
• Academia Award, Colloquium for Information Systems Security (2006)
• Founder of the USENIX UNIX Security Workshop, first held in 1988 (and now the USENIX Security Symposium — my, how our academic children grow!)