welcome I'm currently working on a PhD with the Security Research Group at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, having spent a number of years working in industry on a variety of security related research projects. My research interests include: Concurrency vulnerabilities -- security vulnerabilities rooted in increasingly available concurrency for operating systems, distributed systems, and applications. Operating system access control, especially as related to application containment, including capability systems, and the impact of OS security primitives on the structure of security-aware applications. Highly-scalable network stacks running on multiprocessor systems. Prior to coming to Cambridge, I worked for Trusted Information Systems, Network Associates Laboratories (TIS Labs, NAI Labs, ..), McAfee Research, and SPARTA ISSO. While there I lead a number of network and operating system security research projects for government and industrial sponsors, including DARPA, the US Navy, Apple Computer, and others. Past projects include the TrustedBSD MAC Framework, Mac OS X Audit Subsystem, adaptations of NSA's FLASK/TE security architecture to FreeBSD (SEBSD) and Mac OS X/Darwin (SEDarwin), as well as work on DNSSEC, distributed denial of service, and active networking. Prior to that, during my undergraduate degree at Carnegie Mellon University, I worked on model checking to verify operating system security properties, and the Coda distributed file system. In addition to my academic work, I'm on the board of directors of the FreeBSD Foundation, a US-based non-profit foundation supporting the open source FreeBSD Project. I'm an active contributor to the project, working in the areas of multiprocessor-centric network stacks, operating system security audit, and mandatory access control. I'm a member of the FreeBSD Project's elected project management team, the FreeBSD Core Team, as well as on the release engineerinand security officer teams. You can find a list of citations, including specific information on recent projects, talks, and papers on my personal home page: Personal Home Page of Robert Watson