Roy Maxion – Bio

Short Biography

Roy Maxion is a Research Professor in computer science and machine learning at Carnegie Mellon University, where he has long been the director of the Dependable Systems Laboratory. He has always been a passionate proponent of rigorous/foundational scientific methodology. He is an IEEE Fellow, and has served as a member of the US National Academy of Sciences Committee on Future Research Goals and Directions for Foundational Science in Cybersecurity. He won the 2019 IEEE/IFIP Test-of-Time award for his work using typing rhythms for user authentication. He recently won the Taiwan Tamkang Panda Trophy for his lecture on the sensitivity of machine learning systems to small irregularities in data. He is one of the founding members of the US Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence. He is a member of the editorial boards of IEEE Security and Privacy and the International Journal of Machine Learning.