PNNL

Jess Smith leads the Prevention and Protection group, within the National Security Directorate at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). She is a national expert in cyber supply chain risk management, as well as a cyber-physical security expert.

Her research includes control system and supply chain security, with ventures into hardware security and data analysis. She has led research projects exploring state machine reverse engineering, defining resiliency in cyber systems and enabling trust in critical hardware and software control systems. She is leading PNNL efforts in creating a portfolio of supply chain integrity investigation efforts to support the U.S. Department of Defense, Department of Energy, and Department of Homeland Security.

Prior to PNNL, Dr. Smith worked at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. and the MITRE Corporation. Her work has included designing secure control system devices, educating control system designers and operators on system security, and exploring new threat vectors. She has also worked on embedding encryption into central processing units and malware analysis through reverse engineering.

• Computer security and reliability
• Cybersecurity
• Cyber-physical systems
• Processor architectures
• Supply chain risk management

• PhD in computer science, Washington State University
• MS in computer engineering, University of Idaho
• BS in computer engineering, University of Idaho

• Association for Computing Machinery 
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

• Certified Information Systems Security Professional 
• Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional