Dr. Michael E. Locasto is a Visiting Professor at George Mason
University, where he was an I3P (Institute for Information
Infrastructure Protection) Fellow during the 2008-2009 academic year.
He was previously a Fellow at the Institute for Security, Technology,
and Society (ISTS) at Dartmouth College. He graduated magna cum laude
from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) with a B.Sc. degree in Computer
Science. Dr. Locasto also holds an M.Sc., M.Phil., and PhD (all in
Computer Science) from Columbia University, where he also served as a
Department Preceptor during the 2005-2006 academic year.

He seeks to understand why it seems difficult to build secure systems
and how we can get better at it. His research explores methods for
applying machine intelligence to a variety of security mechanisms,
especially ways to make intrusion defense systems automatic, correct,
and adaptive. His current work focuses on the intersection of
virtualization and security, methods of automated recovery from
large-scale intrusions, defining and exploring debugging patterns, and
automated evaluation of software updates and patches.

Dr. Locasto has authored or co-authored over 35 conference, workshop,
and journal publications in the field of computer security and
intrusion detection. Dr. Locasto has served on a number of conference
organizing and program committees. He holds a patent in the area of
software self-healing and is an inventor on several other pending
patents on computer security technology. In the past two years, his
work has been funded by the DHS/I3P, OSD, DARPA/AFRL, Dartmouth
College, and George Mason University.