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Dr. C. Malik Boykin is currently an Assistant Professor at Brown University, where he teaches courses in social psychology. He is the P.I. of the RISE (Racial Identity in Social Environments) Lab at Brown University where his students spans topics from behavioral genetics, to algorithmic bias, to bias reduction in medicine.

**Highly innovative, accomplished and visionary Leader with extensive experience in the advanced technical Cyber Security & Artificial Intelligence space focused on building robust governance, infrastructure, policies and procedures.  Expertise in developing and championing graduate level programs within the academic community. Demonstrated effectiveness in cultivating relationships with diverse levels of professionals within private, public, academic and government sectors.**

My educational career has been unique and non-traditional. I started kindergarten when I was four years old, just meeting the deadline for admission in that cohort. I subsequently attended every school type imaginable: public, private, parochial, charter, and homeschool. I graduated a year early, at sixteen years of age, and joined the United States Marine Corps three days after my seventeenth birthday.  Upon completing basic training and primary specialty training, I immediately initiated a request to attend night school using USMC tuition assistance benefits. My immediate leadership denied the request several times, but I persisted and continued petitioning the chain of command until I got direct approval from the battalion commander. I concurrently continuously self-studied and ultimately earned fifty-nine undergraduate credit hours through non-traditional methods – CLEPs, DSSTs, and military education. I completed my Associate degree in under two years and left active duty at twenty years old, having finished all but three classes toward my undergraduate degree. When I left the organization, nearly a third of the junior enlisted personnel had enrolled in classes.  Immediately after finishing my bachelor’s degree, I attended graduate school on nights and weekends while working a full-time job, earning a Master of Science in International Relations with a concentration in National Security Policy. Some years later, I also leveraged my remaining GI Bill benefits to complete another master’s degree in Cybersecurity Technology.  I spent most of my adult life overseas as a member of the military and a civilian contractor supporting the military mission. My growth and advancement over my career are largely due to the skills and attributes that I was fortunate enough to learn and develop in the Marines.  As the Cybersecurity Architect for the Penn State Applied research lab, I was involved in countless enterprise initiatives and over half a dozen separate research projects. I care deeply about the global importance and impact of our research and development efforts. I’ve also started collaboration efforts across the university, creating the Open-Source Program Office (OSPO) working group and the cybersecurity collaboration group. In addition, I’ve just begun working on a proposal, collaborating with several PSU organizations (CSRE, ARL, IST, ITS, and Libraries) to attempt to establish our OSPO to make a world-class open-source software center of excellence. One intended focus of the program office is to create reusable standards and templates for consumption and replicability across academia. The program office would also simplify the mechanism for open-source software contribution approvals, outreach, and coordination throughout the university.  As a member FFRDC/UARC information security working group, I've worked on some of the most complex security challenges in the Department of Defense and the Defense Industrial Base. I am also an active member of several other professional organizations, including (ISC)2, the New England Complex Systems Institute, the Association of Old Crows, and the Military Cyber  Professionals Organization. I also regularly attend and participate in cybersecurity conferences, including DEF CON, Security Congress, InfoWarCon, and HammerCon.