Hyrum Anderson

Hyrum Anderson is Director, Security & AI Engineering at Cisco. Prior to that, he was Chief Technology Officer at Robust Intelligence (acquired by Cisco). He received his PhD in electrical engineering from University of Washington, with an emphasis on signal processing and ML, with BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from Brigham Young University. He directed security research at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, Mandiant, as Chief Scientist at Endgame (acquired by Elastic), and Principal Architect of Trustworthy Machine Learning at Microsoft. While at Microsoft, he founded Microsoft’s AI Red Team and served as chair of its governing board. Hyrum co-founded the Conference on Applied Machine Learning in Information Security, and co-authored the book “Not With a Bug, But With a Sticker: Attacks on Machine Learning Systems and What To Do About Them”