Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering
Professor Stephen Taylor is returning to Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering this January after spending the last four years as a Program Manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). While with DARPA’s Strategic Technology Office (STO), he was responsible for broad strategic planning, technical leadership, operational management, and financial affairs associated with substantive research projects in the area of computer security. His work on these programs resulted in a Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service (2008), the DARPA Directors Award for Outstanding Portfolio of Technical Programs (2007) and a DARPA Achievement Award (2006).
Stephen’s technical areas of expertise include information warfare, large-scale distributed computing and systems, computer and network security, medical diagnostics, and surveillance technologies. Stephen also has extensive Department of Defense / Intelligence Community consensus building and technology transition skills.
Stephen has a Bachelors degree in Computer Systems from Essex University in England, a Masters degree in Computer Science from Columbia University in New York, and a Doctorate in Computer Science from the Weizmann Institute in Israel. He is the author of four books on concurrent programming technologies and program design methods, more than 25 journal articles and book chapters, and more than 25 conference articles. Stephen has been a member of many information security-based panels and organizations and is the recipient of several awards related to his work.
Email: stephen.taylor[at]dartmouth.edu
Website: http://engineering.dartmouth.edu/faculty/regular/stephentaylor.html
