Software Engineering Institute

Dr. Mark Sherman is the Technical Director of the Cyber Security Foundations group in the SEI's CERT® Division at the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute. His team focuses on foundational research on the life cycle for building secure software and on data-driven analysis of cybersecurity. Prior to joining CERT, Dr. Sherman was at IBM and various startups, working on mobile systems, integrated hardware-software appliances, transaction processing, languages and compilers, virtualization, network protocols and databases. He has published over 50 papers on various topics in computer science.