Sean Peisert

Professional Service

Selected Steering Committees and Editorial Boards

• Member, IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors (BOG), 2026
• 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
• Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Security & Privacy, 2021–2025
• 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

• 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, 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 Committee, 2025 IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice
• Distinguished Expert Reviewer, 13th NSA Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition, 2025
• Award Committee, 2024 IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice
• Distinguished Expert Reviewer, 12th NSA Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition, 2024
• Chair, 2023 IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice
• Distinguished Expert Reviewer, 11th NSA Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition, 2023
• Reviewer, NIST/NSF Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) Prize Challenge (Phase 2), 2023
• Reviewer, NIST/NSF Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) Prize Challenge (Phase 1), 2022
• Distinguished Expert Reviewer, 10th NSA Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition, 2022
• Award Committee, 2022 IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice
• Distinguished Expert Reviewer, 9th NSA Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition, 2021
• Award Committee, 2021 IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice
• Distinguished Expert Reviewer, 8th NSA Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition, 2020

• 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.
• 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 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.

• 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.

• Distinguished Member, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
• Senior Member, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers)
  • Golden Core Member, IEEE Computer Society
  • IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Security and Privacy
  • IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society
• Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• Member, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
• Member, Marine Technology Society (MTS)
• Member, The Oceanography Society (TOS)

• 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.