Casey William - Cybersecurity and Applied Mathematics

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Leigh Metcalf

William Casey

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Leigh Metcalf researches network security, game theory, formal languages, and dynamical systems. She is Editor in Chief of the Journal on Digital Threats and has a PhD in Mathematics.

William Casey is a Senior Research Member at the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute. His work focuses on the design of scalable cybersecurity within social technological systems. Casey has made contributions in the areas of cybersecurity, natural language processing, genomics, bioinformatics, and applied mathematics in academic, industry, and government settings. He has held appointments at the University of Warwick and New York University. Casey received his PhD in applied mathematics from the Courant Institute at New York University. He also holds an MS in mathematics from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and an MA in mathematics from the University of Missouri Columbia. Casey is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).