Dan Boneh, Ph.D., Professor Boneh's main research area is applied cryptography and network security. His focus is on building security mechanisms that are easy to use and deploy. He developed new mechanisms for improving web security, file system security, and copyright protection. Dr. Boneh contributed to the security and performance of the RSA cryptosystem and contributed to the study of cryptographic watermarking.

Neil Daswani, Ph.D., has served in a variety of research, development, teaching, and managerial roles at Stanford University, Yodlee, and Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies). His areas of expertise include network security, wireless data technology, and peer-to-peer systems. He has published extensively in these areas, frequently gives talks at industry and academic confrences, and has been granted two U.S. patents. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University, and currently works for Google. He also holds a M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University, and a B.S. in Computer Science with honors with distinction from Columbia University.

*Neil Daswani has moved to Google since this interview session took place.

John Mitchell, Ph.D., Computer security: access control, network protocols, and software system security. Programming languages, type systems, object systems, and formal methods. Applications of mathematical logic to computer science.