RSTCON 2025

Keynote Speakers

Josh Corman

Joshua Corman is Executive in Residence for Public Safety & Resilience at the Institute for Security and Technology (IST), where he leads a new initiative on the resilience of lifeline basic human needs: water and wastewater, emergency medical care and hospital services, food supply chains, and power.

Josh is the founder of I Am The Cavalry, a grassroots organization focused on the intersection of digital security, public safety, and human life. He was formerly chief strategist of CISA’s COVID Task Force, where he advised on the pandemic response, provided cybersecurity expertise on healthcare infrastructure, and supported control systems and life safety initiatives. Prior to CISA, Josh was SVP and chief security officer at PTC, where he accelerated cyber safety maturity across industries. Previously, he served as director of the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative, on the Congressional Task Force for Healthcare Industry Cybersecurity, and in leadership roles at Sonatype, Akamai, IBM, and the 451 Group.

Tim Kosiba

Tim Kosiba is the Chief Executive Officer of Mountaincrest Consulting, LLC. Prior to this current role, Tim was the Chief Executive Officer of Bracket F, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Redacted, Inc. He was directly responsible for growing the cybersecurity business within the federal, state, local and healthcare communities around the United States and internationally. Tim retired from US Government service after 33 years of leadership and operational roles in law enforcement, intelligence, and computer network operations. Tim retired from the National Security Agency in December 2021 as an SES-3, where he held senior leadership positions at NSA Georgia, NSA’s Tailored Access Operations (TAO) at Fort Meade, MD, Canberra, Australia, and United States Cyber Command Headquarters. Prior to NSA, he was a Master Forensic Examiner for the FBI’s Computer Analysis Response Team and supervised a large digital forensics laboratory in the FBI, responsible for computer forensics results in the prosecution of federal criminal activity. Tim holds a Master of Science Degree from George Washington University (1999) and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Baltimore (1988).

Research Competition Awardees

Clement Fung

Clement Fung is a final-year PhD student in Societal Computing at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science. His PhD thesis focuses on developing ML-based approaches and proposing guidelines for making anomaly-detection systems more effective at securing and safeguarding industrial control environments. More broadly, Clement has published work in leading cybersecurity and AI venues in topics at the intersection of security, machine learning, and cyber-physical systems. Before his doctoral studies at CMU, Clement spent multiple years in industry developing large-scale data-driven systems, earned a master’s degree in computer science at the University of British Columbia, and earned an undergraduate degree in engineering at the University of Waterloo.

Hussien Khaled

Hussien Khaled is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree at the School of Computer and Cyber Sciences, Augusta University, USA. His research focuses on deep learning, privacy preservation, and user authentication.

Pouria Rad

Pouria Rad is a Ph.D. student in Computer and Information Sciences at Augusta University, advised by Dr. Gianluca Zanella, where his research lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and information systems. His work investigates how the balance between emotional and informational valence shapes human behavior, leveraging AI and large language models to enhance digital forensics, privacy decision-making, and platform trust. Pouria has presented and published in venues such as HICSS, AMCIS, IEEE BSN, and ARES, earning recognition for his contributions to AI-driven security and decentralized systems. He is passionate about transforming complex computational insights into practical, human-centered solutions that advance safety and transparency in digital ecosystems.

National Labs Panelists

Tim Kosiba

Jason Hollern

Jason Hollern is a Technical Executive in the Digitalization Area within the Generation Sector at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). Mr. Hollern’s current research areas include industrial control system (ICS) cyber security and artificial intelligence. He also leads the cross-sector cyber security research and coordination between Energy Delivery and Customer Solutions, Generation and Low-Carbon Resources, and Nuclear cyber security programs. He has led generation-specific cyber security research and development at EPRI since 2017. At EPRI, he leads a multi-disciplinary team of engineers and researchers to provide applied solutions and processes to the energy sector that help to digitally transform the industry. These solutions and processes help the energy transformation, increase overall sector reliability and resiliency, and provide a benefit to the public. Prior to joining EPRI, Mr. Hollern was an engineering supervisor for cyber security at AREVA Inc. He led a team focused on cyber security engineering solutions and services for more than half of the U.S. nuclear fleet, implemented parts of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation – Critical Infrastructure Protection (NERC CIP) compliance program, and worked with international power plants to implement cyber security processes and tools around the world. Mr. Hollern previously worked with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Industrial Control System – Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) in incident response and vulnerability mitigation. He was also an engineer at the Idaho National Laboratory’s (INL) Control Systems Security Program and in the Safeguards and Security Program. Mr. Hollern holds a Master of Science degree in Nuclear Engineering and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from The Ohio State University. He also holds a Graduate Certificate in Terrorism Analysis from the University of Maryland at College Park.

Virginia Wright

Virginia “Ginger” Wright is the program manager for Cyber-Informed Engineering (CIE) at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL). She leads INL’s implementation of the National Strategy for Cyber-Informed Engineering developed by the Department of Energy. Ms. Wright has led multiple cyber research programs at INL including DOE-CESER’s Cyber Testing for Resilient Industrial Control Systems (CyTRICS™) program, Software Bills of Material for the Energy Sector, critical infrastructure modeling and simulation, and nuclear cybersecurity. Ms. Wright has a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems/Operations Management from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.