Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richland, Washington,
United States

Theora R Rice is a Cyber Security Researcher in PNNL's National Security Directorate. She holds both B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Idaho and studied as a recipient of the National Science Foundation Scholarship for Service. Her interest and passion for industrial control systems and critical infrastructure cyber security formed in her academic years and were the focus of her master’s thesis. Throughout her career Ms. Rice has worked with academic, industry, and government agencies to further expand her knowledge and contribute research in the critical infrastructure security field. Her current research foci include building cyber-physical testbeds for industrial control system security research, energy delivery system forensics, and developing scientific methodology for cyber security experimentation.