Dr. Aviel D. Rubin is Professor of Computer Science and Technical 
Director of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins 
University. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, Rubin was a research 
scientist at AT&T Labs. He is also a co-founder of Independent 
Security Evaluators (securityevaluators.com), a security consulting
firm.  Rubin is author of several books including Brave New Ballot
(Random House, 2006) Firewalls and Internet Security, second 
edition (with Bill Cheswick and Steve Bellovin, Addison Wesley, 
2003), White-Hat Security Arsenal (Addison Wesley, 2001), and Web 
Security Sourcebook (with Dan Geer and Marcus Ranum, John Wiley & 
Sons, 1997). He is Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on 
Software Engineering, Associate  Editor of ACM Transactions on 
Internet Technology, Associate Editor of IEEE Security & Privacy, 
and an Advisory Board member of Springer's Information Security 
and Cryptography Book Series. Rubin serves on the DARPA Information 
Science and Technology Study Group. In January, 2004 Baltimore 
Magazine name Rubin a Baltimorean of the Year for his work in 
safeguarding the integrity of our election process, and he is 
also the recipient of the 2004 Electronic Frontiers Foundation 
Pioneer Award. Rubin has a B.S, ('89), M.S.E ('91), and 
Ph.D. ('94) from the University of Michigan.

Rubin's detailed vita can be found at http://avirubin.com/vita.html.