Sean Peisert
Senior Scientist at University of California, Davis
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Peisert is a senior scientist and cybersecurity R&D leader at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who builds and directs large, multidisciplinary programs that secure scientific cyberinfrastructure, high-performance computing, and power grid control systems. As Deputy Director and Co-PI of Trusted CI and an adjunct professor at UC Davis, he blends operational impact with teaching and applied research in privacy-preserving data analysis and usable security. He has steered multi-million-dollar DOE, NSF, DHS, and NNSA programs, led cross-lab efforts like the DOE iJC3 ECC, and served as CENIC’s Chief Cybersecurity Strategist for California’s 100Gb research network. An influential community builder, he is editor-in-chief of IEEE Security & Privacy and has chaired flagship venues including the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy and NSPW. Peisert’s background spans hands-on labs, policy-facing strategy, and academic mentorship, and he remains available as a consultant and SME to translate research into deployable, auditable security practices. His career uniquely combines deep academic credentials (PhD UCSD) with practical stewardship of national-scale research networks and security centers of excellence.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Github Skills (28)
open-science9
python8
science8
cybersecurity8
netlify7
r7
rstudio7
rmarkdown7
command-line6
hugo-theme6
hugo6
jekyll5
github-pages5
jupyter5
page-builder5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lbnl-cybersecurity/lbnl-cybersecurity.github.io
Oct 2016 - Nov 2022
LBNL Cybersecurity Organization Pages
Contributions:124 commits, 1 PR, 253 pushes in 6 years 2 months
cybersecurity
lbnl-cybersecurity/secpriv-hugo-source
Mar 2024 - Nov 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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