Presenter

Prashanth Rajivan is an assistant professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Washington. His research agenda is on the intersection of human factors, simulation modeling and computer security. Prior to this appointment, Prashanth Rajivan was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. He holds a Ph.D. in Human Systems Engineering (2014) and M.S. in Computer Science (2011) from Arizona State University, USA. He received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award in 2022. His work on multi-agent models of teamwork in cyber defense was awarded the best student paper at HFES annual conference in 2014. His dissertation work was a finalist in the Human Factors Prize on Cyber Security in 2017. He is currently the chair of cyber security technical group at HFES, Co-chair for 2022 USEC (Symposium of Usable Security and Privacy) and is on the board of Modeling and Simulation Society.