\nAbout the Speaker
\nDr. Lorie M. Liebrock is the Director of the New Mexico Cybersecurity Center of Excellence and the New Mexico Tech Cybersecurity Education Center. Her work with the Cybersecurity Centers leads projects including a Summer Institute with Sandia National Laboratories\, an expansion project for Codebreaker Challenge\, and an economic development project to help New Mexico companies prepare for Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification. She is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. Dr. Liebrock has extensive experience in cybersecurity\, as well as parallel and high performance computing. She has published twenty-six journal articles\, thirty-nine conference and workshop papers\, and holds two US patents. Her research includes enterprise-wide cybersecurity\, foundations of computer science\, information assurance\, parallel processing\, and visualization with a focus on complex problems that require the integration of many aspects of computer science. This provides many student research opportunities\, as she integrates students in all of her research - from freshmen to Ph.D. candidates. Dr. Liebrock holds both M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rice University and B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Michigan Technological University.