People

Who we are

CACR's chief asset is its knowledgeable and dedicated administration, staff, fellows, and students. CACR prides itself on the professional diversity of its staff, each with unique skills and experiences that contribute to our expertise. CACR staff is made up of people from all disciplines, including computer science, informatics, accounting and information systems, criminal justice, law, organizational behavior, and public policy.

The center’s leadership reflects this range of expertise:

Executive Director Scott Shackleford's areas of expertise include cyber security and privacy, international law and relations, property, and sustainability. He has written more than 100 articles, book chapters, essays, and op-eds for diverse outlets and is also the author of Managing Cyber Attacks in International Law, Business, and Relations: In Search of Cyber Peace.
Administrative Director Leslee Bohland has more than two decades of experience in management and accounting.
Deputy Director Craig Jackson's research interests include information security program development and governance, cybersecurity assessment design and conduct, legal and regulatory regimes' impact on information security and cyber resilience, evidence-based security, and innovative defenses.
Chief Security Analyst Mark Krenz is focused on cybersecurity operations, research and education. He has more than two decades of experience in system and network administration and has spent the last decade focused on cybersecurity.
Senior Security Analyst Anurag Shankar provides leadership in regulatory compliance (HIPAA, FISMA, and DFATS) and cybersecurity risk management. He has over two decades of experience in providing research computing services and building HIPAA compliant solutions for biomedical researchers.
Senior Project Manager Kelli Shute supports Trusted CI, ResearchSOC, and our election security engagement with the State of Indiana. Kelli has more than 15 years of experience leading project teams, primarily in the private sector.

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Ishan Abhinit

Deputy Chief Information Security Officer

Ishan Abhinit has worked as a security risk analyst co-op at GMO, Boston, as well as an SOC engineer and IT security analyst at Infosys Ltd and IBM India Pvt. Ltd. He holds a master’s degree from the Cybersecurity Program at Northeastern University.
Email:: iabhinit@iu.edu

Emily K. Adams

Principal Security Analyst

Emily K. Adams is a Principal Security Analyst at the Indiana University Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research. She has over twenty one years experience in IT administration, IT security operations, and cybersecurity R&D solutions. She holds a Master of Science in Secure Computing from Indiana University.

Isak Nti Asare

Fellow

Isak Nti Asare is the associate director and director of Undergraduate Studies of the Cybersecurity and Global Policy Program at Indiana University, the associate director of the Language Workshop, senior associate at Oxford Insights, and co-founder and executive director for AI and Linguistics at FairFrame. Isak’s research interests and work are at the intersection of emerging technologies and policy. Isak has advised national and local governments on the strategic, cultural, and leadership opportunities and challenges from digital transformation and artificial intelligence. For example, he is co-author of Mexico's National AI strategy, a co-founder of the UK cross-governmental community of practice on AI, and co-author on Stockton, California’s AI strategy - the first city-led AI strategy in the United States. He has done consulting work for clients including the OECD, the Open Data Institute, the Transparency Initiative, the UK Government Digital Service, and the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Email:: intiasar@iu.edu

William K. Barnett

Alumni

Will Bobe

Alumni

Leslee Bohland

Administrative Director

Email:: lescoope@indiana.edu

Matthew Brownlee

Alumni

Matthew Brownlee is a former intern who graduated from Indiana University with a major in Informatics, a cognate in Security and Medical First Responder Informatics, and a minor in Security.

Mark Bruhn

Senior Fellow

Mark Bruhn has been with Indiana University for 25 years, and is currently associate vice president for assurance and public safety.
Email:: mbruhn@indiana.edu

L. Jean Camp

Affillated Faculty

Jean Camp is an Associate Professor in the School of Informatics and Computing, an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department, and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Telecommunications Department at IUB. She came to Indiana University from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, where she founded the information technology policy group. She is a pioneer in the interdisciplinary study of trust and design for values, and a Senior Member of the IEEE.
Email:: jcamp@indiana.edu

Fred H. Cate

Senior Fellow

Professor Cate specializes in information privacy and security law issues. He has testified before numerous congressional committees and speaks frequently before professional, industry, and government groups.
Email:: fcate@indiana.edu

Damir Cavar

Fellow

Damir Cavar is an Associate Professor at Indiana University Bloomington in the Department of Linguistics. At IU, he is also affiliated with the Cognitive Science Program and the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures in the College of Arts and Sciences. Further, he has ties with the Data Science Program in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering. He is also involved with the Russian and East European Institute in the School of Global and International Studies. Dr. Cavar is engaged in collaborative research efforts on network scientific approaches with the Indiana University Network Science Institute. Additionally, he works on big data technologies for NLP and HPC with the Intelligent Systems Engineering (ISE) department at IU. He also works with questions related to NLP and cybersecurity. In the past, Dr. Cavar has worked in most areas of NLP at various institutions in Europe and in the USA. His research focus is on algorithms and models for (Open) Information Extraction and NLP, learning of Knowledge Graphs, and Ontologies for semantic NLP applied to domains like cybersecurity.
Email:: dcavar@indiana.edu

Brian Chase

Alumni

Email:: brchase@iu.edu

Diana Cimmer

CACR Project Management Specialist

Diana Cimmer serves as the Project Management Specialist at Indiana University’s Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (CACR). She has worked for IU for 24 years in the IU UITS Finance office, before joining CACR in 2016.
Email:: dborecky@iu.edu

Robert Cowles

Senior Fellow

Robert (Bob) Cowles is principal in BrightLite Information Security performing cybersecurity assessments and consulting in research and education about information security and identity management. He served as CISO at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (1997-2012); participated in security policy development for LHC Computing Grid (2001-2008); and was an instructor at University of Hong Kong in information security (2000-2003). His CACR contributions include research for the XSIM project and the NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence.

Adrian Crenshaw

Alumni

Austin Cushenberry

Alumni

Tim Daniel

Information Security Analyst

Tim Daniel is an information security analyst at CACR. Previously, Tim worked for a contract research organization carrying out phase 1 and pre-phase 1 clinical trials for veterinary medicine. He holds a bachelor’s degree in biology with a focus in chemistry, and an associate's degree in applied biotechnology. After high school, Tim worked for Stone Belt, a nonprofit that provides resources and supports for individuals with disabilities, where he learned patience and listening skills.

Rachel Dockery

Fellow

Rachel Dockery, CIPP/US, is a Research Fellow in Cybersecurity Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law and a Fellow of the Indiana University Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research.
Email:: rdockery@indiana.edu

Josh Drake

Alumni

William Drake

Chief Information Security Officer

Will Drake is a senior security analyst and CISO at CACR. Will has worked in various IT roles with Indiana University since 2012, including Operations Supervisor for UITS Data Center Operations and Lead Systems Engineer for the Campus Communications Infrastructure team where he was responsible for ensuring the security of IU’s critical telecommunications infrastructure. Will holds an Associate’s Degree in Computer Information Technology from Ivy Tech and is currently pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in Informatics with a specialization in Legal Informatics from IUPUI’s School of Informatics and Computing.
Email:: wildrake@iu.edu

Arjan Durresi

Fellow

Arjan Durresi is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at IUPUI. His current research interests include network architectures, heterogeneous wireless networks, security, QoS routing protocols, traffic management, optical and satellite networks, and bio-computing. Durresi has authored more than seventy journal papers and more than one hundred conference papers in the above topics.
Email:: durresi@cs.iupui.edu

Tom Edelberg

Post-Doctoral Appointee

Tom’s research centers on instructional design and technology, helping school leaders, teachers, and students engage with the best available methods of instruction with digital computer technologies. In particular, he is interested in assessment practices used to measure learning outcomes and enhancing ways to evaluate and refine such practices. Recent research activities include advancing knowledge of cybersecurity principals and incident response planning for Indiana County Clerks in order to mitigate current and future cyber threats to elections. In addition, he has practical experience in education, working in both public and private secondary and post-secondary schools.
Email:: edelberg@iu.edu

David P. Fidler

Fellow

Professor Fidler specializes in international law. He is one of the world's leading experts on the relationship between international law and cyberspace, cybersecurity law and policy, the rule of law in counterinsurgency and stability operations, international law and global health, biosecurity threats posed by biological weapons and bioterrorism, arms control and non-proliferation concerning weapons of mass destruction, the international legal implications of "non-lethal" weapons, and the globalization of baseball.
Email:: dfidler@indiana.edu

Mailyn Fidler

Alumni

Mason Green

Intern

Clovia Hamilton

Fellow

Clovia Hamilton is an Assistant Professor in the Kelley School of Business' Department of Business Law and Ethics. She researches information privacy, AI ethics, smart policing, and intellectual property law issues. Clovia has taught Smart Cities, Operations Management and Industrial Engineering; and currently teaches Business Ethics and Equity in Diverse Organizations. She holds a PhD in Industrial & Systems Engineering from the University of Tennessee, MBA from Wesleyan and Master of Laws in intellectual property law from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Clovia is a USPTO registered patent attorney and member of the Georgia bar.

Grayson Harbour

Fellow

Grayson Harbour is an incoming associate to the law firm Faegre Baker Daniels LLP in Indianapolis, Indiana. A Texan by birth but a Hoosier by choice, Grayson received his journalism degree (BAJ), M.S. in Cybersecurity Risk Management, and J.D. from Indiana University Bloomington. Grayson's cybersecurity research and interests include the CUI framework as applied to scientific research programs and facilities, security of utilities and industry, and the security of the electoral process in the 21st century. He is an ardent supporter of Indiana University's leading cybersecurity research and educational community.

Randy Heiland

Alumni

Randy Heiland is a computer scientist (M.S., U. Utah) and applied mathematician (M.A., Arizona State U.) who has worked in industry, government labs, and academia.

Daniel Hickey

Senior Fellow

Daniel Hickey is a professor with the IU Learning Sciences Program and a research scientist with the IU Center for Research on Learning and Technology. He specializes in educational assessment, online learning, digital credentials, and cybersecurity education. He is currently working on the CACR Principles-Based Assessment of Cybersecurity Toolkit (PACT) project and is developing online courses on Cybersecurity and Wireless Networking for the K12 network analysts for the California Department of Education.

Raquel Hill

Alumni

Dr. Raquel Hill is the Associate Professor and Chair of the Computer and Information Sciences Department at Spelman College. She holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard University. Her primary research interests span the areas of trust, security, and data privacy. Her more recent work on data privacy uses the semantics of data to create privacy preserving frameworks for test data. She was featured in Indiana University’s Brilliant Minds series in 2016 and her work on the re-identification risks in behavioral science data was featured in Forbes Magazine.
Email:: ralhill@indiana.edu

Craig Jackson

Program Director

Craig Jackson is Program Director at the Indiana University Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (CACR), where his research interests include information security program development and governance, cybersecurity assessments, legal and regulatory regimes' impact on information security and cyber resilience, evidence-based security, and innovative defenses. He leads CACR's collaborative efforts with the defense community and an interdisciplinary assessment and guidance team for the NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence . He is a co-author of Security from First Principles: A Practical Guide to the Information Security Practice Principles. Craig is a graduate of the IU Maurer School of Law, IU School of Education, and Washington University in St. Louis. In addition to his litigation experience, Craig's research, design, project management, and psychology background includes work at the IU Center for Research on Learning and Technology and the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine.
Email:: scjackso@iu.edu

Aditya Vamsi Kanuparthi

IT Support Specialist

Apu Kapadia

Fellow

Dr. Apu Kapadia is an Assistant Professor at the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University Bloomington. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2005 and received a four-year High-Performance Computer Science Fellowship from the Department of Energy for his dissertation research.
Email:: kapadia@indiana.edu

Ryan Kiser

Alumni

Mark Krenz

Chief Security Analyst

Chief Security Analyst Mark Krenz is focused on cybersecurity operations, research and education. He has more than two decades of experience in system and network administration and has spent the last decade focused on cybersecurity. He serves as the CISO of the ResearchSOC and also the Software Assurance Marketplace (SWAMP).
Email:: mkrenz@indiana.edu

Asaf Lubin

Fellow

Dr. Asaf Lubin is an Associate Professor of Law at Indiana University Maurer School of Law, a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, an Affiliated Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, and a Visiting Scholar at the Federmann Cybersecurity Research Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Law. His research focuses on the intersection of law and technology, particularly as it relates to the regulation of cybersecurity harms, liabilities, and insurance as well as policy design around governmental and corporate surveillance, data protection, and internet governance.
Email:: lubina@iu.edu

Kendrick Mernitz

CACR Student Fellow

Kendrick Mernitz is a sophomore pursuing a B.A. in Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures and a B.S. in Cybersecurity & Global Policy. Outside of class, Kendrick is involved in the Deans' Advisory Council for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, the Global Student Seven, and as an undergraduate instructor in Luddy. Kendrick hopes to one day work in international law, with a focus on the use of cyberspace by state actors.

Nicholas Multari

Fellow

Nicholas J. Multari is the senior technical advisor for research in cybersecurity at the Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL) in Richland, Washington. He establishes the direction and leads the execution of the various research projects resulting in a rigorous foundation upon which security concepts are matured and implemented. Prior to joining PNNL, he was the manager for trusted cyber technology at Boeing Research and Technology in Seattle, Washington. In 2008, he served as a consultant to the USAF Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) investigating the effects of the contested cyber environment on the USAF mission. In addition to being a Senior Security Engineer with Scitor Corporation in Northern Virginia where he supported the government in addressing enterprise level information assurance issues, Nick spent 20 years as a computer scientist in the Air Force retiring as a Lt. Col. In the Air Force, his positions ranged from system acquisitions to networking to computer security management. He received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Manhattan College, New York; a master’s degree in computing and information science from Trinity University, Texas; and a PhD in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin.

Steven Myers

Senior Fellow

Steven Myers is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University, where he is also a member of the Center for Applied Cybersecurity. His research interests are in all areas of cryptography, and computer and systems security with a specific interest in phishing and new hetremorphic attacks.

Scott Orr

Senior Fellow

Scott Orr began his career at IUPUI in 1988 when he joined what later became known as the Computer Network Center within the School of Engineering and Technology. He played a key role in its mission to provide computer and networking support for academic and research efforts and during his final year there, served as the Acting Manager.
Email:: smorr@indiana.edu

Oyedotun Oyesanmi

Systems/Analyst Programmer

Oyedotun Oyesanmi is a Systems/Analyst Programmer and an Adjunct Faculty with the Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University. He holds MS degrees in Computer Science and Cybersecurity Risk Management, both from Indiana University. As a grad student with the IU Cybersecurity Clinic, he worked on developing Election Security webinar series for all counties across the State of Indiana. Oyedotun holds the CISSP and Microsoft Azure certifications. Also, he is a 2-time semi-finalist at the Atlantic Council’s Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge in Washington D.C. His interests include Software development, Cybersecurity Due Diligence, Security Analysis and Incident Response.
Email:: oyesanmi@iu.edu

Tori Richardson

Administrative Asst.

Ranson Ricks

Senior Project Manager

Ranson is a Project Manager with more than 20 years of experience leading project teams in the Department of Defense and industry.
Email:: rjricks@iu.edu

Scott Russell

Senior Policy Analyst

Scott Russell is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Indiana University Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research. Scott was previously the Postdoctoral Fellow in Information Security Law & Policy. Scott’s work thus far has emphasized private sector cybersecurity best practices, data aggregation and the First and Fourth Amendments, and cybercrime in international law. Scott studied Computer Science and History at the University of Virginia and received his J.D. from the Indiana University, Maurer School of Law.
Email:: scolruss@indiana.edu

Gianpaolo Russo

Alumni

Sagar Samtani

Fellow

Dr. Sagar Samtani is currently an Assistant Professor and Grant Thornton Scholar in the Department of Operations and Decision Technologies (ODT) in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University (IU). Samtani graduated with his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems (MIS) from the University of Arizona’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lab in May 2018 where he served as a Scholarship-for-Service (SFS) fellow from 2014-2017.

Vineeta Sangaraju

Alumni

Scott Shackelford

Executive Director

Scott Shackelford is Executive Director of IU's Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research. Aside from being a Executive Director, he is affiliated with the IU Center for the Study of Global Change, Global and International Studies Program, Integrated Program in the Environment, and the Russian and East European Institute. Professor Shackelford specializes in cybersecurity law and policy, sustainable development, and global commons governance.
Email:: sjshacke@indiana.edu

Zalak Shah

Alumni

Zalak Shah is a former Senior Security Analyst and Chief Information Security Officer at Indiana University’s Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (CACR). He did his undergrad in Computer Engineering from Gujarat Technological University, India and has completed his master’s in Information Assurance from Northeastern University, Boston. During his master’s he did his co-op as a Digital Forensic Analyst with Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office where he has worked on various cybercrime related cases.

Anurag Shankar

Senior Security Analyst

Anurag Shankar is a Senior Security Analyst at Indiana University's Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (CACR). His expertise includes regulatory compliance (HIPAA and FISMA) and cybersecurity risk management.
Email:: ashankar@iu.edu

Kelli Shute

Senior Project Manager

Kelli is a Project Manager with over 15 years of experience leading project teams, primarily in the private sector. She joined CACR in 2019 as the Project Manager for Trusted CI, ResearchSOC, and our collaboration with the Indiana Secretary of State's office on election cybersecurity. In August 2020, she was appointed to the role of Executive Director for Trusted CI.
Email:: kelshute@iu.edu

Michael M. Simpson

Alumni

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Chris Soghoian

Alumni

Susan Sons

Executive Director, OmniSOC

Susan Sons serves as executive director of OmniSOC and previously was a chief security analyst at CACR.
Email:: sesons@iu.edu

Mike Stanfield

Alumni

Mike Stanfield has over five years of experience with application security, including penetration testing, security code reviews, reverse engineering, and security architecture. Mike is also an expert in mobile application security, and was a co-author of Hacking Exposed: Mobile Secrets and Solutions.
Email:: stanfiem@iu.edu

Todd Stone

Alumni

Robert Templeman

Senior Fellow

Robert Templeman, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientific Technical Manager (SSTM) at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane). Rob serves as a Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) Distinguished Engineer for Cybersecurity. He is a graduate of Indiana University (Ph.D. in Computer Science), the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (M.S. in Engineering Management) and Purdue University (B.S. in Electrical Engineering). In 2016, Dr. Templeman was appointed to the Indiana Executive Council on Cybersecurity to represent Defense issues to the State of Indiana. He is a member of the Defense Acquisition Corps and served as a Non-Commissioned Officer in the United States Marine Corps with one deployment to Iraq in 2003.
Email:: retemple@indiana.edu

Joseph Tomain

Senior Fellow

Joseph A. Tomain is a Visiting Lecturer at the Maurer School of Law where he teaches Information Privacy Law I and II, and Internet Law. Tomain has extensive experience in practice, teaching, and scholarship on free speech rights, particularly in online environments. His contributions to the CACR include examining the relationship, and often competing interests, between speech and privacy rights, as well as the cybersecurity implications that must be considered when assessing online privacy.
Email:: jtomain@indiana.edu

XiaoFeng Wang

Fellow

XiaoFeng Wang received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2004. He joined Indiana University at Bloomington as an assistant professor in 2004.His research interests span all areas of computer and communication security. In particular, he is carrying out active research on massive cyber attacks (malware and denial of service), privacy (theory and applications of anonymity systems) and incentive engineering

Email:

xw7@indiana.edu

Von Welch

Senior Fellow

Von Welch is a senior fellow and former director of Indiana University's Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (CACR). He specializes in cybersecurity for distributed systems, particularly scientific collaborations and federated identity.
Email:: vwelch@indiana.edu

Xukai Zou

Fellow

Dr. Xukai Zou is an Associate Professor with Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. His research interests include applied cryptography and network security, in particular, secure group communication/secure dynamic conferencing, wireless networks, and analysis and design of computer algorithms. Dr. Zou has authored two books and published over fifty security-related papers on group/conference key management for secure group communications and secure dynamic conferencing.
Email:: xkzou@cs.iupui.edu

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