Dr. Mark Sherman is the Director of the Cybersecurity Foundations group at CERT within CMU’s Software Engineering Institute. His team focuses on foundational research on the life cycle for building secure software, on data-driven analysis of cybersecurity, and on cybersecurity for and enabled by machine learning applications. Before coming to CERT, Dr. Sherman was at IBM and various startups, working on mobile systems, integrated hardware-software appliances, transaction processing, languages and compilers, virtualization, network protocols and databases.