Sean Peisert

ACM Distinguished Member

Upcoming activities:

IEEE Security & Privacy (ongoing)

NSA SoS Best Paper Competition (annually, deadlines in April)

IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice (annually, deadlines in July)

IEEE S&P (Oakland) 2025 (May 12–15, 2025)

NSPW 2025 (Aug 24–27, 2025)

NSF Cybersecurity Summit (Oct. 20–23 2025)

CSET 2025 (2025)

Professional Service

Selected Steering Committees and Editorial Boards

Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Security & Privacy, 2021–present
Steering Committee, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2020–present
Senior Fellow / Fellow, Applied Computer Security Associates (ACSA), 2020–present
Steering Committee, New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW), 2009–present
Steering Committee, Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET), 2012–present
Associate Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Security & Privacy, 2018–2020
Chair, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Security and Privacy, 2018–2019
Associate Editor, IEEE Security & Privacy, 2013–2018

Selected Conference Chair Roles

Program Chair, 2016 Workshop on Learning from Authoritative Security Experiment Results (LASER), 2016.
General Chair, 36th IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy, 2015.
Co-Organizer, Dagstuhl Seminar on Policies for Security-Sustainable Organizational Processes, 2012.
Program Co-Chair, Fifth Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET), 2012.
Program Co-Chair, Fourth Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET), 2011.
General Chair, 2011 New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW), 2011.
Program Co-Chair, Fourth International IEEE Workshop on Systematic Approaches to Digital Forensic Engineering (IEEE/SADFE), 2009.

Selected Conference Organizing Committees

Treasurer, New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW), 2012–present.
Financial Aid Co-Chair, New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW), 2011–present.

Award Committees

Selected Advisory Workshop Organization & Participation

Co-Chair, "A Convening on Health Data Access and Sharing," California Council on Science and Technology (CCST), Dec. 13, 2024.
Invited Expert Panelist, Secure Methods for Sharing Health Data, California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) Legislative Staff Briefing, Sacramento, CA, Dec. 7, 2023.
Invited Presenter, NASEM Cyber Resilience Forum Summer Meeting, Aug. 31, 2023.
Invited Participant, California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) Workshop on Designing Operable Privacy Standards for Public Health Emergencies, Oct. 13–14, 2022. [Report]
Invited Participant and Presenter, AI@DOE Roundtable, Jan. 12–13, 2022. [Report]
Facilitator / Co-Chair, DOE/SETO Working Group for Data Sharing Standards for Inverter-Based and Distributed Energy Resources, 2021–2022. [Report/Article]
Invited Participant, ASCR Workshop on the Science of Scientific-Software Development and Use, Dec. 13–15, 2021. [Report]
Invited Participant, White House Office of Science & Technology Policy Workshop on the Responsible Liberation of Federal Data, Eisenhower Administration Building, Washington. D.C., January 31, 2020.
Invited Expert Presenter, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Science, Engineering, Medicine, and Public Policy (COSEMPUP) Meeting, National Academy of Sciences Building, Washington, D.C., November 8, 2018.
Invited Briefing to U.S. Department of Energy Deputy Secretary Dr. Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, August 1, 2016.

Current and Recent Working Groups

U.S. Government / National Service Roles
- Member, National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Forum on Cyber Resilience (2024–present)
- Co-Chair, Health Data Working Group, California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) (2023–present)
- Member, DARPA Information Science and Technology (ISAT) study group, 2021–present
- Member, DOE Securing Energy Infrastructure (SEI) Executive Task Force Technical Project Team (TPT) on Developing a National Cyber-Informed Engineering (CIE) Strategy, 2021–2022. [DOE Press Release] [Report]
- Member, Advisory Board, NSF / IU Research Security Operations Center (ResearchSOC), 2018–2022
- Program Committee, DOE ASCR Workshop on Cybersecurity and Privacy for Scientific Computing Ecosystems, 2021.
- Lead, DOE Integrated Joint Cybersecurity Coordination Center (iJC3) Cyber R&D Enterprise Cybersecurity Capability (ECC), 2016–2018
- Chair, DOE ASCR Cybersecurity for Scientific Computing Integrity Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, June 2–3, 2015.
- Chair, DOE ASCR Cybersecurity Workshop, Rockville, MD, January 7–9, 2015. [Report]
Community-Related and Other Professional Activities
- Member, U.S. ACM Technology Policy Committee, 2021–present
- Member, Marin County Election Advisory Board, 2010–present
- Member, Election Verification Network (EVN), 2009–present
- Senior Fellow, Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS), 2018–2020
Selected University and Lab Committees
- Member, Admissions Committee, UC Davis Graduate Group in Health Informatics, 2015–present.
- Executive Committee, UC Davis Graduate Group in Health Informatics, 2013–present.
- Chair, Admissions Committee, UC Davis Graduate Group in Health Informatics, 2019–2024.

Professional Organizations

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