About the Speaker
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    Barbara Endicott-Popovsky
    Executive Director, Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity, University of Washington

    Barbara Endicott-Popovsky, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity at the University of Washington, recently re-designated by NSA/DHS as a Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education, headquartered at UW Bothell, and a Center of Academic Excellence in Research, headquartered at the APL (Applied Physics Lab). She is a Principal Research Scientist at APL; an Affiliate Professor at UW Bothell’s Department of Computer Science and Systems and UW Seattle’s Department of Urban Planning and Management for the Master of Infrastructure Planning and Management, and adjunct faculty at University of Hawaii Manoa’s Department of Information and Computer Science. She was named Department Fellow at Aberyswyth University Wales (2012). Her academic career follows a 20-year career in industry marked by executive and consulting positions in IT architecture and project management.