Vern Paxson

Vern Paxson is Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Corelight, a cybersecurity company based on network monitoring technology he and colleagues developed for many years. He is also a tenured Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and formerly held staff and leadership positions at the International Computer Science Institute and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. At Corelight he leads a team of 24 researchers and developers in creating high performance algorithms for finding and contextualizing Internet attacks. He is a Fellow of the ACM and has received ACM's SIGCOMM Award for lifetime achievement, the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, the IEEE Internet Award, and the Facebook Internet Defense Prize.