Sean Peisert

ACM Distinguished Member, IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributor

Upcoming activities:

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

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

NSF Cybersecurity Summit (Oct. 26–29, 2026)

CSET 2026 (Dec. 2026)

IEEE S&P (Oakland) 2027 (May 17–20, 2027)

NSPW (Fall 2027)

Professional Service

Selected Steering Committees and Editorial Boards

Member, IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors (BOG), 2026–2029
Steering Committee, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2020–present
Senior Fellow / Fellow, Applied Computer Security Associates (ACSA), 2020–present
Steering Committee, Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET), 2012–present
Steering Committee, New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW), 2009–present
Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Security & Privacy, 2021–2025
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 National Service / Government Working Groups

Member, National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Forum on Cyber Resilience, 2024–present
Ad Hoc Member, American Red Cross Scientific Advisory Council Disaster Cycle Sub-Council, 2025–present
Study Co-Chair, American Red Cross Scientific Advisory Council, Cascading Disaster Resilience, 2026–present
Member, National Academies Board on Army Research and Development (BOARD), 2025
Member, DARPA Information Science and Technology (ISAT) study group, 2021–2025
Study Chair, DARPA ISAT, "Underwater Omniscience," 2024–2025
Co-Chair, Health Data Working Group, California Council on Science and Technology (CCST), 2023–2025
Study Co-Chair, DARPA ISAT, "Mission Continuity When All Else Fails," 2022–2023
Study Chair, DARPA ISAT, “Cyber Moonshot: Accelerating Security of Systems with Emerging Technologies (ASSET),” 2021–2022
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
Member, Cybersecurity Research and Development Advisory Committee, California Joint Utility Program, California Energy Systems for the 21st Century (CES-21), 2016–2020
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]

Selected Advisory Workshop and Report Organization & Participation

Steering Committee Member, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), Enhancing Visioning Impacts on Computing Research: A Workshop, 2026–present
Reviewer, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2026. Best Practices for Cybersecurity and Physical Security in Semiconductor Supply Chains: Proceedings of a Workshop Series in Latin America and South and Southeast Asia. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/29393
Invited Participant, Invited Participant, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), Workshop on Securing AI Systems: New Challenges and Research Priorities, Washington, D.C., April 20–21, 2026
Invited Speaker, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), Cyber Hard Problems: Making Progress: A Workshop, Washington, D.C., June 25, 2025. [Report]
Invited Participant, National Academies Committee on International Security and Arms Control (CISAC) India–US Cooperation on Global Security Strategic Security Threats of 21st Century, "Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure," Mar. 6, 2025.
Co-Chair, "A Convening on Health Data Access and Sharing," California Council on Science and Technology (CCST), Dec. 13, 2024. [Report]
Chair, ISAT/DARPA "Underwater Omniscience" Workshop, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 4–5, 2024.
Invited Participant, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), Workshop on Secure Building Blocks for Trustworthy Systems, Seattle, WA, Jul. 31, 2024.
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, 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.

Award Committees

Professional Organizations

Selected Conference Chair Roles

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.

Recent Conference Program Committees

Program Committee, OCEANS 2026 Monterey, 2026.
Program Committee, 2026 ACM Conference on Reproducibility and Replicability, 2026.
Program Committee, 2025 ACM Conference on Reproducibility and Replicability, 2025.

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