Chair, Non-profit Participant

Cory Hall

Project VIC International

Cory Hall is a technologist and board member at Project VIC International, a US-based charity that discovers, creates, evaluates, and transitions technologies to the law enforcement community for use to find and rescue children from sexual exploitation (projectvic.org). Formerly he was a Group Leader, Project Leader, and Principal Cybersecurity Engineer at the MITRE Corporation where he led research teams to develop capabilities for cyber-domain analysis, to create machine learning applications for studying cybercrime data, and to develop new digital forensic examination methods. He has an MS in cybersecurity and a BS in information technology. He is a member of several INTERPOL-led digital investigative groups, as well as the American Academy of Forensic Science, the Digital Forensic Research Workshop, and other organizations. Cory previously led several cybersecurity teams at Lockheed Martin, following earlier roles in cybersecurity and systems engineering roles. Cory served as a musician and systems technician in the US Army. Since 2017, Cory’s contributions to this community have centered on governance and resource management, adding new application domain ontologies, and fostering community involvement and adoption initiatives.

Vice-Chair, Gov Participant

Alex Nelson

National Institute of Standards & Technology

Dr. Alex Nelson is a Computer Scientist at NIST, working on research in security automation and contributing to the National Vulnerability Database. Dr. Nelson has a dual B.A./B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from The Evergreen State College, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Dr. Nelson's research emphasizes foundational measurability of digital forensic processes. Dr. Nelson served as the inaugural CASE Ontology Committee Chair, currently serves as the UCO Ontology Committee Chair, and has had substantial input and experience in the CDO Adoption Committee. Dr. Nelson is a coauthor on multiple CASE publications, and has established many policies to enable the CDO ontologies' release processes and resource development.

Academia Participant

Eoghan Casey

University of Lausanne

Eoghan Casey is professor of Digital Forensic Science and Investigation in the School of Criminal Sciences at the University of Lausanne, and is a partner in Digital Forensics Solutions. He has extensive experience working in digital forensic laboratories in the public and private sectors, and he has analyzed many types of digital evidence to support complex cases. He has consulted globally with many attorneys, agencies, and police departments on a wide range of digital investigations, and he has helped organizations investigate and recover from severe security breaches, including network intrusions with international scope. He has helped develop new capabilities for extracting and analyzing digital evidence, including smartphones and networks. He has delivered expert testimony in civil and criminal matters in the United States, Canada, and international tribunals, and has submitted expert reports and prepared trial exhibits for computer forensic and cyber-crime cases. He is also an active member of the Digital/Multimedia Scientific Area Committee (DMSAC) of the NIST Organization for Scientific Area Committees (OSAC).

Government Participant

Ryan Griffith

DoD Cyber Crime Center

Ryan Griffith works for the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3) in the field of Cyber Forensics. Throughout his tenure with DC3 he has served as a validator, developer, and researcher of cyber forensics technologies. In this capacity Ryan has served as the lead for mobile forensics exploitation, Chief Operations Officer for the Research & Development branch of DC3, and chairperson for the DC3 Cyber Innovation Group. Current work focuses on leading research and development initatives for mobile and IoT exploitation and promoting CASE adoption across the DoD. Ryan has co-authored several CASE publications and presented on the subject matter at numerous conferences and workshops.

For-profit Participant

Martin Westman

MSAB

Martin has worked in the mobile device technology field since 1994. Before Martin started working for MSAB in 2004, before that he was working with consumer hardware manufacturers as product manager. During these years, Martin was part of Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) and involved in creating the Bluetooth standard. He was also part of the team creating and implementing the EXIF standard. In 2004 Martin started working for MSAB as a mobile forensic specialist trainer. Having delivered more than a hundred training courses globally, Martin is well recognized in the digital forensic industry. Whilst mobile forensics is his main field of expertise, he has a longstanding awareness of digital and cyber forensics, and the challenges encountered in the industry. Martin has held many roles within MSAB over the last 16 years, bouncing back and forth between sales and development, and he is currently working as TechSales manager. He also oversees the work being done in Research and Development on the physical extraction and decryption capabilities in XRY, along with more specialized products for device penetration. Martin has a long history of leading workshops for government organizations and presenting at forensics conferences and seminars - HTCIA, F3, DC3, Mobile Forensics World, Techno Forensics and the Crimes Against Children Conference, to name a few. Martin is also part of the Interpol Digital Forensics Expert Group and has on several occasions, assisted law enforcement and government agencies in successfully acquiring mobile data from challenging and complex high-profile cases to support major investigations. Martin is also the only known person to have successfully completed a forensic extraction of a phone whilst in freefall. He once combined skydiving with mobile forensics and recorded the moment - to invent a new sport called extreme hexdumping. So far there is only one practitioner.

For-profit Participant

Keith Chason

Cipher Tech Solutions

Keith Chason is a Technical Program Manager at Cipher Tech Solutions with experience developing data analysis platforms in support of digital forensic applications. Within the Cyber Domain Ontology community, he chairs the CDO Adoption Committee, focused on supporting the implementation of CASE and UCO in investigative and analysis tools. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Binghamton University and an M.S. in Information Systems Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. He has worked as a software engineer and project manager in support of several industries.

Non-profit Participant

Sean Barnum

Mitre

Academia Participant

Vahid Behzadan

University of New Haven

Chair, CASE Ontology

Paul Brandt

Eindhoven University of Technology

MSc. computer science from Delft University of Technology, currently holding positions as Sr. Ontologist / Semantic Architect at Dutch Police and Researcher with the Eindhoven University of Technology TU/e. Conducted research on ophthalmologic instrumentation and magnetic resonance imaging techniques (University Medical Centre Utrecht), on flight test instrumentation, air traffic management and satellite navigation (National Aerospace Laboratory NLR), on (mobile) information provisioning techniques, component based and service oriented architectures, semantic interoperability (TNO). Got interested in semantics in 2000 when XML came around; built expertise in semantic architectures and ontology engineering since 2010 with a part-time PhD research in Semantic Interoperability. Whenever possible teaching guest lectures on universities and stimulating and supporting students in their master graduation and post-master research.
Expertises - Semantic interoperability, semantic web, ontologies and ontology engineering, sensor networks, ICT architectures, service oriented architectures by web services and/or REST, complex event processing, requirements analysis, Scrum master & agile coach.
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