Noam Ben Asher

Experience

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  RAD

  Apr 2000 - Aug 2005

  Process engineer

  * Develop information system for tracking software development and testing processes.* Measure, analyze, and optimize R&D and QA processes. * Develop a decision support reporting system for senior management.* Manag and maintain the configuration management and version control processes.

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  Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

  Jan 2006 - Sept 2011

  Researcher
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  Deutsche Telekom

  Mar 2006 - Oct 2011

  Usable Security and User Experience research team leader

  * Lead a team of researchers and programmers that explore authentication methods, including biometric methods, and access control models in mobile devices. * Deliver prototypes and UI\UX guidelines for authentication and access control methods for mobile devices.* Lead the development of a content adaptation algorithm for mobile devices, integrating importance perception with information presentation.* Develop interfaces for a mobile eInk-based mews reader.* Develop personas, usage scenarios and requirements for extend ePub format allowing rich and interactive news reading experiences in mobile devices. Show less

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  Carnegie Mellon University

  Oct 2011 - Sept 2014

  Postdoctoral fellow, Dynamic Decision Making Lab at Carnegie Mellon University

  * Investigate how cybersecurity analysts acquire, maintain and utilize cyber situation awareness when detecting threats.* Develop behavioral experiments and computational models of human cognition to explore attributes that influence cyber situation awareness. * Evaluate visual means and training methods to enhance situation awareness and improve detection of cyber threats. * Develop theoretical socio-cognitive computational models of adversarial behavior and conflict resolution using behavioral game theory. * Quantify the influence of information availability and type of information on exploration, adversarial behavior, and cooperation in social dilemmas. Show less

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  IBM

  Sept 2014 - Jun 2016

  Visiting Researcher at US Army Research Laboratory, Network Science Division, Computational and Inf

  * Develop the science of cyber decision making: Study and model cyber defender and attacker decision making processes in cyber conflicts using behavioral experiments, behavioral game theory, and cognitive models.* Use computational ontologies to study how human decision makers represent network flows to develop cognitively inspired decision-aid tools for threats detection.

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  U.S. Army DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory

  Jun 2016 - Mar 2019

  ORAU Senior Research Fellow

  Network Science Division, Computational and Information Sciences Directorate* Develop theories and models of human decision-making in anticipating, detecting, analyzing, and responding to malicious cyber activities. * Improve analyst-in\on-the-loop intrusion detection performance and capabilities through a synergistic architecture for intrusion detection. * Support and improve human decision-making in detection, cyber maneuvers, and warfare using a multi-agent approach, behavioral game theory, semantic technologies, and cognitive modeling. Show less

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  Boston Fusion

  May 2019 - Mar 2022

  * Principal Investigator, led a cross-functional team of researchers and developers that built a bio-inspired distributed C2 for an autonomous swarm of micro aerial vehicles, leveraging a custom semantic ontology, automated planning, artificial intelligence, behavior trees, and high-fidelity simulation.* Integrated Product Team leader, developed a tool for analysts to prioritize and triage falsified media (fake news) based on user role, CONOPs, and threat models.* System Architect supporting a multi-functional team through the design and development of an evaluation platform for multi-domain battlefield resource allocation algorithms.* Write successful business development materials and grant proposals, and engage government representatives, performers, and other stakeholders. Show less

  • Lead Research Scientist

    Dec 2021 - Mar 2022

  • Senior Research Scientist

    May 2019 - Dec 2021
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  AICA - IWG

  Jan 2021 - Dec 2021

  Treasurer
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  Dcoya

  Feb 2021 - now

  Board Member
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  SimSpace

  Mar 2022 - now

  * Automation of offensive cyber operation* AI/ML for attack emulation * Leading attack content development* Leading product incubation * Led the Data Science team for cyber risk estimation, generating actuarial data by simulating cyber attackers and defenders * Led the development of AI/ML driven cyber attack agent, delivering dynamic attack capabilities

  • Director

    Mar 2024 - now

  • Senior Manager

    Feb 2023 - Mar 2024

  • Staff Data Scientist

    Mar 2022 - Feb 2023