TU Cyber Fellows are invited to engage with David Roman, senior incident response consultant at Cisco Talos Incident Response.

David Roman is a senior incident response consultant at Cisco Talos Incident Response, with 29 years of experience in the IT and security industry. David leads investigations to help customers on their worst career day recover from security incidents and help them better prepare for the future. Volunteering and helping others learn about cybersecurity is a passion for David. He helps run local DEF CON and CitySec groups and guest lectures at Oklahoma State University.

The Cyber Fellows Speaker Series is open to Cyber Fellows, related faculty, and our external partners. It is an opportunity for Cyber Fellows to have deep conversations with cyber industry professionals, venture capitalists, founders, and entrepreneurs. For more information, email randy-roberts@utulsa.edu.

TU Cyber Fellows are invited to engage with Andreas A. Polycarpou, Ph.D., Inaugural Dean of Engineering and Endowed Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Tulsa.

Andreas Polycarpou received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1994. Before joining The University of Tulsa in 2023, he was at Texas A&M University from 2012 to 2023 holding the James Cain Chair and serving as department head of mechanical engineering and acting dean of dentistry. From 1999 to 2012, he was the Wilkins Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Polycarpou’s research interests include tribology, micro/nanotribology, nanomechanics, microtribodynamics, and advanced interface materials. Emphasis has been on micro/nanoscale contact problems with applications to micro-devices, as well as the tribology of devices for reduced energy and improved environmental-related impact. Polycarpou is the author of more than 280 archival journal papers, numerous book chapters, volume proceedings, and two dozen patents. Polycarpou is the co-founder of two startup companies and has been engaged and leading academic technology entrepreneurship programs. Polycarpou won numerous national and international awards, most recently the ASME Hersey Award, and the ASME Church Medal. Polycarpou is active in the tribology and mechanics communities, where he served in many posts, including chairing the ASME Tribology Division, and ASME’s Department Heads Council.

The Cyber Fellows Speaker Series is open to Cyber Fellows, related faculty, and our external partners. The speaker series is an opportunity for Cyber Fellows to have deep conversations with cyber industry professionals, venture capitalists, founders, and entrepreneurs. For more information, email randy-roberts@utulsa.edu.

TU Cyber Fellows are invited to engage with Andrew Lemon, the founder of Red Threat Security where he serves as the lead over Penetration Testing and Red Teaming. Lemon honed his hacking skills through years of incident response against APT groups that target the Hospitality, Legal, Oil and Gas, and Critical national infrastructure industries. Lemon used the Tools, Techniques and Procedures he learned from state sponsored entities as a spring board to develop his Companies Methodology for adversarial emulation. This methodology has enabled his team to compromise a variety of targets, such as airports, utilities companies, oil tankers and drilling rigs, and gain physical access to hardened targets like ISP data centers, Chemical Production facilities, and Cash Depositories.

Andrew will be discussing A day in the life of a Pentester.

The Cyber Fellows Speaker Series is open to Cyber Fellows, related faculty, and our external partners. The speaker series is an opportunity for Cyber Fellows to have deep conversations with cyber industry professionals, venture capitalists, founders, and entrepreneurs. For more information, email randy-roberts@utulsa.edu.

TU Cyber Fellows are invited to engage with Paul Winter who serves as the Vice President of Professional Services at SimSpace Corporation helping customers maximize their investment to understand cyber security risk through use of the SimSpace Cyber Range platform. Prior to joining SimSpace, Paul spent over a decade with Booz Allen Hamilton as a consultant to the Department of Defense conducting analyses of cyber operations, and predicting effectiveness and risk associated with employment of cyber capabilities. While in this role, he became intimately familiar with the need to leverage cyber ranges that represent real-world environments when testing offensive and defensive capabilities. This testing improved leaders’ confidence in their employment decisions.

Paul holds a Masters of Science in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from North Dakota State University.

Topic: Raising Confidence to Reduce Risk. How do organizations increase confidence in their ability to withstand a severe cyber attack? A great way to understand how they might respond is to exercise their team using their tools in a safe environment that mimics their corporate network and systems. This talk will examine strategies of various organizations and review some lessons learned from their experiences.

The Cyber Fellows Speaker Series is open to Cyber Fellows, related faculty, and our external partners. The speaker series is an opportunity for Cyber Fellows to have deep conversations with cyber industry professionals, venture capitalists, founders, and entrepreneurs. For more information, email randy-roberts@utulsa.edu.

TU Cyber Fellows are invited to engage with Dan Gunter, CEO and founder of Insane Cyber.

Dan Gunter is the founder and CEO of Insane Cyber, a threat hunting-focused company that helps organizations protect against the threats of yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Before Insane Forensics, Dan served as director, research and development for Dragos Inc, an industrial control system cybersecurity firm. He established and oversaw detection engineering and reverse engineering efforts focused on protecting oil and gas, energy, and other critical infrastructure sites. As an early employee at Dragos, he also served as one of the original principal threat analysts working with oil and gas and energy companies to expand cybersecurity capabilities. Before Dragos, Dan was an officer in the United States Air Force serving in assignments, including the Air Force Computer Emergency Response Team (AFCERT) and operational CYBERCOM teams. Dan was competitively selected for and graduated from the Department of Defense’s elite Computer Network Operations Development Program and the Air Force Research Lab’s Advanced Course in Engineering Cyber Security Bootcamp. Dan earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science from Baylor University, a Master of Science in computer science from the University of Louisville, and a graduate certificate in incident response from SANS Technology Institute. Dan is also a graduate of MIT Bootcamp’s Innovation Leadership program and pitched on the winning new venture team.

In the community, Dan has spoken at Blackhat, Schmoocon, S4, CS3STHLM and taught at a variety of smaller and private events on the topics of incident response, threat hunting, consequence analysis, and general security operations.

The Cyber Fellows Speaker Series is open to Cyber Fellows, related faculty, and our external partners. The speaker series is an opportunity for Cyber Fellows to have deep conversations with cyber industry professionals, venture capitalists, founders, and entrepreneurs. For more information, email randy-roberts@utulsa.edu.

TU Cyber Fellows are invited to engage with Hazem Refai, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at The University of Tulsa.

Professor Refai earned his master’s and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Oklahoma, where he later held the Williams Chair of Telecommunication and Networking. Known as a national leader in his field, he has led research efforts in optical wireless communication, radio frequency wireless coexistence, cognitive networks, and the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning in transportation and communication. He secured more than $9 million in grants from federal and state agencies to fund innovative projects and published more than 245 papers in top-tier journals and conferences.

The Cyber Fellows Speaker Series is open to Cyber Fellows, related faculty, and our external partners. The speaker series is an opportunity for Cyber Fellows to have deep conversations with cyber industry professionals, venture capitalists, founders, and entrepreneurs. For more information, email randy-roberts@utulsa.edu.