Hamed Okhravi

About Hamed Okhravi

Dr. Hamed Okhravi is a Senior Staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he leads programs and conducts research in the area of systems security. His research interests include systems security, science of security, security evaluation, and operating systems. He is the recipient of the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer (2024), two Best Paper Awards (NDSS\'22 and RTSS\'21), three R&D 100 Awards (2022, 2020, and 2018), Best Reviewer Award (CCS\'21), Stratus Award for Cloud Computing (2020), MIT Lincoln Laboratory\'s Best Invention Award (2019), Team Award (2015), National Security Agency\'s Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Award (2015), and MIT Lincoln Laboratory\'s Early Career Technical Achievement Award (2014) for his work in computer security.He is the Program Chair of the Network and Distributed Systems Securitm Symposium (NDSS \'25-26) as well as the Associate Editor of the Security & Privacy journal. He has also served three times as the Program Chair of the ACM Moving Target Defense (MTD) workshop (2022, 2020, and 2017), the Poster Chair of the Secure Development Conference, and twice as the editor of the Security & Privacy (Special Issues on Memory Safety and Hacking without Humans). In addition, he serves on the Organizing Committee of ACSAC (2024-present) and on the program committee of various top-tier academic conferences, including Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), USENIX Security, ACM CCS, NDSS, RAID, ACM AsiaCCS, DAC, SecDev, MILCOM, ICCAD, and ACNS, among others. He has also served on the National Science Foundation\'s Panel for the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program.Dr. Okhravi actively contributes to various national, laboratory, and division-level strategic planning activities, and has led the development of multiple national-level R&D roadmaps. He has served as the chair of multiple DARPA ISAT studies and has led the development of multiple systems security technologies that have successfully transitioned outside and inside Lincoln Laboratory. His work has resulted in four U.S. patents and 70+ publications, many in top-tier venues.Dr. Okhravi’s current focus is researching and developing a new computer system design in which security is the core focus and multiple large classes of vulnerabilities are prevented by design.Dr. Okhravi earned his MS and PhD degrees in electrical and computer engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006 and 2010, respectively.

Experience

1. Senior Staff

   MIT Lincoln Laboratory

   Mar 2016 — Present

Education

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Eng.

  2006 — 2009

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  M.S., Electrical and Computer Eng.

  2004 — 2006