Avinash Srinivasan is an Associate Professor of Cyber Science at the United States Naval Academy, where his research spans cybersecurity and digital forensics—from network security and cyber-physical systems to steganography and information hiding, and the application of emerging security and communications frameworks, such as zero trust and software-defined networking to tactical environments. He has secured research funding from the DoD/Navy, NSF, DoJ, DHS, and DoEd, and has published 59 peer-reviewed papers in venues including IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICDCS, and ACM SAC. He holds a U.S. patent, serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, and is certified as both an Ethical Hacker (CEH) and a Computer Hacking Forensics Investigator (CHFI). Dr. Srinivasan has also trained law enforcement personnel in Macintosh and Network Forensics.