2019

• Mr. John Brady, Senior Vice President for Cyber Security and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)of FINRA, gave a distinguished guest lecture on the topic of risk management in the 2019 KCGC Distinguished Lecture Series on April 2, 2019.
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• On March 30, 2019, Dr. Heng Xu joined an invited panel on cybersecurity/privacy at the sixth annual OWN IT Summit at Georgetown University. OWN IT was built by young women at Georgetown with the goal of bridging the gap between female leaders of the 21st century and the college students who admire them by shaking up the women’s leadership arena and producing interactive, accessible, and dynamic events. Each year, about 600 college-aged attendees come to the campus of Georgetown for a day of unique conversations that bring together leading women from all sorts of backgrounds and perspectives.

• Dr. Heng Xu, director of KCGC, visited Data & Society Research Institute in New York City in March, 2019, and gave a talk on how various privacy preserving techniques may disproportionately suppress information for minorities or mask health disparities.
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• Mr. Lance Spitzner, Director of SANS's Security Awareness team, gave a distinguished guest lecture on the topic of security awareness in the 2019 KCGC Distinguished Lecture Series on March 19, 2019.
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• Dr. Heng Xu, director of KCGC, joined a panel of expert discussing “Into the Cyber domain. A view from Academia and industry” at an Embassy of Italy’s event on “Cybersecurity: Challenges and Opportunities” on March 7, 2019.

• Dr. Nan Zhang, faculty member of KCGC, gave a talk on robust data analytics at the American University’s inaugural Winter Academy Luncheon in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on Friday, March 1, 2019. The talk discussed why, to properly separate signal from noise in data analytics, it’s critical to understand the data generation process and to collectively reason about heterogeneous yet related datasets.

• Dr. Allan Friedman, the Director of Cybersecurity Initiatives at National Telecommunications and Information Administration, kicked off the 2019 KCGC Distinguished Lecture Series as the inaugural speaker on February 26, 2019.
• Dr. Nan Zhang, faculty member of KCGC, discussed the importance of ensuring robustness in the data analytics process in Kogod Business Briefing on February 13, 2019.
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