Noam Ben Asher

Noam ben asher

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Cybersecurity | Decision-making | AI/ML

  • Education

    • Ben-gurion university of the negev

      2005 - 2007
      M.sc human factors engineering

      Dissertation: Exploratory and Confirmatory Processes in Rule Detection Task

    • Ben-gurion university of the negev

      1996 - 2000
      B.sc industrial engineering
    • The hebrew reali school

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    • Carnegie mellon university

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      Postdoctoral fellow dynamic decision making laboratory
    • The hebrew reali school

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    • Ben-gurion university of the negev

      2007 - 2011
      Ph.d. usability of information security systems

      Dissertation: Modeling the Tradeoffs between Usability and Security in Information Systems

  • Experience

    • 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.

    • Ben-gurion university of the negev

      Jan 2006 - Sept 2011
      Researcher
    • 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

    • 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

    • 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.

    • 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

    • 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
    • Aica - iwg

      Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
      Treasurer
    • Dcoya

      Feb 2021 - now
      Board member
    • 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
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Certified scrum master

      Scrum alliance
      Dec 2019