Mini-conference Jury

Andria Farnham, Security Engineer, MDA

Andria Farnham, EIT, is a Security Engineer at MDA with over six years of experience in the cyber security industry. MDA develops and delivers advances surveillance and intelligence solutions, defence and maritime systems, radar geospatial imagery, space robotics, satellite antennas, and communication subsystems. Andria’s main role at MDA is Lead Security Engineer for a satellite ground segment project. This role involves providing design and guidance for the implementation of IT security solutions across an air-gapped ground segment infrastructure, including HIDS/NIDS solutions, identification and authentication with two-factor authentication (2FA), public key infrastructure (PKI), platform hardening, data at rest (DAR) encryption, security auditing and network security zoning implementation.

Alex Loffler, Principal Security Architect for the Province of BC.

Alex Loffler is a certified ethical hacker & licensed penetration tester. He has over 20 years of experience in architecting software and security solutions in the Telco & Security space, with 10 years focused on long-term research at British Telecom’s Adastral Park research facility and over 10 years helping to build TELUS’ security strategy and capabilities. His thesis explored ML techniques to build contextually aware compute frameworks, and holds several patents in the U.S. and Europe. Alex has been working on the application of machine learning techniques to large-scale datasets and is the Principal Security Architect for the Province of BC.

Ildar Muslukhov, Ph.D.
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at WorkDay

Ildar Muslukhov is a seasoned software engineer and manager with interests in security and machine learning with more than 15 years of experience. His research interests span from applied security and privacy to machine learning. He recently graduated from UBC (2018) with Ph.D. where he worked with Professor Beznosov on the problem of data security in smartphones. He also holds Ph.D degree from Ufa State Aviation Technical University in the field of Machine Learning and Fault Tolerance. During his recent internships at Google Cloud Security Team he contributed to EXT4 file system and Linux Kernel fuzzer Trinity. He has published more than 10 research papers in Security and ML domains and holds 3 patents. Currently, Dr. Muslukhov works in Workday as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer after the startup he worked in (Rallyteam) got acquired in June 2018. Apart from geeky side of him, he loves spending time with his family, biking and hiking.

Konstantin Beznosov,
Professor, ECE UBC

Konstantin Beznosov, Ph.D., P.Eng., is a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He joined UBC in August 2003 after working as a Security Architect at Quadrasis, Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc (HICAM), where he designed and developed products for security integration of enterprise applications. Before HICAM, Dr. Beznosov consulted large telecommunication and banking companies on the architecture of security solutions for distributed enterprise applications, as a Security Architect at Concept Five Technologies.

Prior to graduating from Florida International University (FIU) in 2000 with a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Dr. Beznosov was a Senior Research Associate with the FIU's Center for Advanced Distributed Systems Engineering (CADSE), conducting research on engineering access control for distributed enterprise applications. He also worked on distributed DBMS development at High Performance Database Research Center at FIU, where he received a M.S. in Computer Science in 1997. Dr. Beznosov's prior work on applying CORBA Security architecture to computerized medical records at Baptist Health Systems of South Florida laid the foundation for the OMG standard on Resource Access Decision (RAD) Facility. He actively participated in standardization of security-related OMGs specifications (CORBA Security, RAD, SDMM) from 1997 to 2001, and was a co-chair of the Security SIG.

Dr. Beznosov has served on program committees of SACMAT, NSPW, NDSS, SOUPS, Oakland, and CCS. Having published various research papers on security engineering, he is a co-author of "Enterprise Security with EJB and CORBA" and "Mastering Web Services Security" by Wiley Computer Publishing, and a contributor to the "Handbook of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering" by World Scientific Publishing.