Research Directorate National Security Agency Fort George G. Meade,
MD, U.S.A.

Dr. Josiah Dykstra is a Researcher and Subject Matter Expert with the Laboratory for Telecommunication Sciences at the National Security Agency. He is the author of one book, Essential cybersecurity science (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media, 2016), and 10 articles.  He earned a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Hope College in 2002, a master’s degree in Information Assurance from Iowa State University in 2004, and a doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2013. He is a lifetime member of the Association for Computing Machinery, a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, and member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.  In 2017, he received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). His research interests include digital forensics, cloud computing, network security, human factors, and augmented reality.