Dr. Dan Massey is a program manager in the Cyber Security Division (CSD) for the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency at DHS S&T. His portfolio includes security for cyber physical systems, distributed denial of service defense, routing security, and open source security. He is the author of over 75 peer reviewed publications.

Prior to his position in CSD, Massey worked as a tenured associate professor at Colorado State University and was previously a project leader and research assistant professor at the University of Southern California Information Science Institute. Some of his projects have included serving as an editor for the DNS Security Extensions work on internet BGP monitoring and analysis, security enhancements such as the Route Origin Verifier and work on the Named Data Networking project that is developing a new information centric architecture. He earned his bachelor’s degree in mathematics and computer science and his master’s degree in applied mathematics all from the University of California, San Diego and his doctorate in computer science from the University of California, Los Angeles.