Cybersecurity Capstone

Bruce Huang is a scholar and practitioner in the field of computer science. As a practitioner, Huang developed and brought to life numerous software products at IBM and at his technology startups to enable enterprises to test, analyze, and manage the performance and scalability of their mission-critical infrastructure and applications. He was a managing partner and practice executive at IBM Global Services and a venture-capital backed technology and education entrepreneur. Huang is director of the master's degree program in information technology at Harvard Extension School. Other academic appointments have included lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Engineering, computer science department; UCLA Extension academic department director; visiting lecturer at Cornell University's Cornell Tech campus; and adjunct associate professor at the University of Maryland. His research interests include big data analytics and software testing. Huang received an EdD in innovation and leadership from New York University, MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management, an MRes from the University of Liverpool, a PhD in applied computer science from Northcentral University, and a BS in computer science from the University of Texas.

Heather Hinton has extensive experience in information and cybersecurity, including security architecture, product design and go-to-market, secure development and operations, security and privacy by design, cloud security, governance, risk, and compliance, including roles as the chief information security officer (CISO) at PagerDuty, RingCentral, and IBM Cloud and Cognitive Software. She advises start-ups and early stage companies including DarkSail, Astrix, Akeyless, Tiltan, CloudRaxak, Stack Identity, and Toopher. As a CISO, Hinton had global responsibility for all aspects of security, privacy, and risk in support of product, customer, and corporate security postures. Hinton has led the building of corporate risk and governance and information security organizations to provide data protection, privacy, security, and risk management guidance and creation and maturation of teams to support these disciplines. As an IBM Distinguished Engineer, Hinton helped lead IBM's early cloud offerings and strategy. Hinton has over 75 published patents in various areas of computer security, including identity management, federated identity management, mobile security, governance, and security assessments. She has published articles and conference presentations including formal methods, emergency properties, micropayments, single sign-on, and federated identity. She has held academic appointments at Toronto Metropolitan University and the University of Toronto. Hinton has PhD in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Toronto.