• ACM CCS Workshop on Moving Target Defense (MTD 2020)
• ACM CCS Workshop on Moving Target Defense (MTD 2017)

• DARPA ISAT Study on Cybersecurity Moonshot (2021)

• Associate Editor, IEEE Security & Privacy (IEEE S&P), 2019 - Now
• Guest Editor, IEEE Security & Privacy, Hacking without Humans (IEEE S&P), 2018

• ACM CCS Workshop on Moving Target Defense (MTD 2021)
• ACM CCS Workshop on Moving Target Defense (MTD 2020)
• ACM CCS Workshop on Moving Target Defense (MTD 2019)
• ACM CCS Workshop on Moving Target Defense (MTD 2018)
• ACM CCS Workshop on Moving Target Defense (MTD 2017)
• ACM CCS Workshop on Moving Target Defense (MTD 2016)
• Boston University-MIT/LL Workshop on Cybersecurity 2016
• ACM CCS Workshop on Moving Target Defense (MTD 2015)
• Boston University-MIT/LL Workshop on Cybersecurity 2015
• Boston University-MIT/LL Workshop on Cybersecurity 2014

• IEEE Secure Development Conference (SecDev 2017)

Program Committee Member:

• USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Sec 2022)
• Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2022)
• Design Automation Conference (DAC 2022)
• ACM Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2021)
• Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses (RAID 2021)
• IEEE Cybersecurity Development Conference (IEEE SecDev 2021)
• Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2021)
• USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Sec 2021)
• Military Communications (MILCOM 2021)
• ACM CCS Workshop on Moving Target Defense (MTD 2021) 
• International Conference On Computer Aided Design (ICCAD 2020)
• IEEE Cybersecurity Development Conference (SecDev 2020)
• Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2020)
• International Conference On Computer Aided Design (ICCAD 2019)
• Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2019)
• International Conference On Computer Aided Design (ICCAD 2018)
• IEEE Cybersecurity Development Conference (SecDev 2018)
• ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS 2018)
• Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2018)
• ACM Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2017)
• IEEE Cybersecurity Development Conference (SecDev 2017)
• ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS 2017)
• International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS 2017)
• Military Communications (MILCOM 2017)
• ACM Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2016)
• ACM CCS Workshop on Moving Target Defense (MTD 2016) 
• Military Communications (MILCOM 2016)
  
• International Conference on Trust & Trustworthy Computing (TRUST 2016)
• International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS 2016)
• ACM Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2015)
• ACM CCS Workshop on Moving Target Defense (MTD 2015) 
• ACM CCS SafeConfig Workshop (SafeConfig 2015) 
• Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses (RAID 2014)
  
• ACM CCS Workshop on Moving Target Defense (MTD 2014)
  
• Cyber and Netcentric Workshop (CNW)
  
• IEEE Symposium on Cyber and Physical Security and Privacy (SmartGridComm)
  
• International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS)
  
• International Conference on Security in Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SNDS)
  
• InternationalWorkshop on Trust and Privacy in Cyberspace (CyberTrust)
• International Conference on Smart Grids and Green IT Systems (SMARTGREENS)

In the News

MIT News: Hamed Okhravi is named co-chair of DARPA cybersecurity study (2021)

MIT Lincoln Laboratory News: Hamed Okhravi charts a vision for a cybersecurity moonshot (2021)

MIT News: Lincoln Laboratory earns a 2020 Stratus Award for Cloud Computing (2021)

R&D World: R&D 100 winner of day: Timely Randomization Applied to Commodity Executables at Runtime (TRACER) (2020)

MIT News: Cyber protection technology moves from the lab to the marketplace (2019)

MIT Lincoln Laboratory News: New cyber protection technology moves from the lab to the marketplace (2019)

Network World: 7 really cool network and IT research projects (2017)

MIT News: Foiling cyberattackers with rerandomization (2016)

Network World: Solution to JIT-ROP cyber attacks: Scramble code quickly (2016)

NSA News: NSA Announces Winner of Annual Cybersecurity Research Paper Competition (2015)

Former students

Kelly Casteel, Master of Engineering in EECS, 2013   
Eric Soderstrom, Master of Engineering in EECS, 2014 
Isaac Evans, Master of Engineering in EECS, 2015
Julian Gonzalez, Master of Engineering in EECS, 2015
Sam Fingeret, Master of Engineering in EECS, 2015
Ulziibayar Otgonbaatar, Master of Engineering in EECS, 2015
Ronald Gil, Master of Engineering in EECS, 2017
Jakob Weisblat, Master of Engineering in EECS, 2018
Madeleine Dawson, Master of Engineering in EECS, 2018
Tiffany Tang, Master of Engineering in EECS, 2019
Justin Restivo, Master of Engineering in EECS, 2020
Jennifer Switzer, Master of Engineering in EECS, 2020
Claire Nord, Master of Engineering in EECS, 2020
Alexander Huang, Master of Engineering in EECS, 2020
Elijah Rivera, Master of Engineering in EECS, 2021
Yianni Giannaris, Master of Engineering in EECS, 2021

Dr. Hamed Okhravi is a Senior Staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he leads programs and conducts research in the area of systems security. His research interests include cybersecurity, science of security, security evaluation, and operating systems. He is the recipient of two R&D 100 Awards (2020 and 2018), Stratus Award for Cloud Computing (2020), MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Best Invention Award (2019), Team Award (2015), National Security Agency's Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Award (2015), and MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Early Career Technical Achievement Award (2014) for his work in computer security.

He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Security & Privacy journal. He has also served twice as the Program Chair of the ACM Moving Target Defense (MTD) workshop, the Poster Chair of the IEEE Secure Development Conference, and a guest editor of the IEEE Security & Privacy – Special Issue on Hacking without Humans. In addition, he has served as a program committee member for a number of academic conferences and workshops including USENIX Security, ACM CCS, NDSS, RAID, ACM AsiaCCS, DAC, ICCAD, ACM MTD, MILCOM, ACNS, IEEE SecDev, and ACM SafeConfig, among others. He has also served on the National Science Foundation's Panel for the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program.

Dr. Okhravi actively contributes to various national, Laboratory, and division-level strategic planning activities, and has led the development of multiple national-level R&D roadmaps. He serves as the current co-chair of the DARPA ISAT study on Cybersecurity Moonshot. He has also led the development of multiple systems security technologies that have successfully transitioned outside and inside Lincoln Laboratory. His work has resulted in four U.S. patents and numerous publications in top-tier venues.

Dr. Okhravi’s current focus is researching and developing a Resilient Mission Computer, a new computer system design in which security is the core focus and multiple large classes of vulnerabilities are prevented by design.

Dr. Okhravi earned his MS and PhD degrees in electrical and computer engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006 and 2010, respectively.