Director, Center for Information System Security Studies and Research (CISR);
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California
USA

Cynthia E. Irvine is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Naval Postgraduate School and Director of the Center for Information System Security Studies and Research (CISR). She has spent the past 16 years developing theory for, design, implementation, and analysis of high assurance secure systems. She has developed security aware applications for high assurance systems and currently leading the development of separation kernel intended for EAL7 evaluation. She has authored over 70 papers in the area of trusted computing. Dr. Irvine is a senior member of the IEEE, a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, the American Astronomical Society and a Life Member of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.