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)

CSET 2025 (Dec. 8, 2025)

IEEE S&P (Oakland) 2026 (May 18–21, 2026)

NSPW 2026 (2026)

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

Professional Service

Selected Steering Committees and Editorial Boards

Member, IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors (BOG), 2026
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 National Service

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
Member, Cyber Infrastructure Working Group (CIWG), University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS) (2024–present)
Member, National Academies Board on Army Research and Development (BOARD), 2025
Member, DARPA Information Science and Technology (ISAT) study group, 2021–2025
Co-Chair, Health Data Working Group, California Council on Science and Technology (CCST), 2023–2025
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]

Award Committees

Selected Advisory Workshop Organization & Participation

Invited Speaker, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), Cyber Hard Problems: Making Progress: A Workshop, Washington, D.C., June 25, 2025.
Co-Chair, "A Convening on Health Data Access and Sharing," California Council on Science and Technology (CCST), Dec. 13, 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 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]
Program Committee/Thrust Lead, DOE ASCR Workshop on Cybersecurity and Privacy for Scientific Computing Ecosystems, Nov 3–5, 2021.
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.

Professional Organizations

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

Community-Related Service 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, Berkeley Lab Computing Science Area Staff Committee, 2023–present
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

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