Speakers: Dr. Gregory Falco (Cornell University) & Prof Caroline Kennedy-Pipe (Loughborough University) with Guest Host Dr. Nicholas Wright (Intelligent Biology)
Date: 1 July 2025
Speaker Session Summary
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Speaker Session Recording
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Briefing Materials
Biographies:
Prof. Gregory Falco has been at the forefront of space system and critical infrastructure security in both industry and academia for the past decade. As a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Cornell University, he is the Director of the Aerospace ADVERSARY (Autonomy, Defense and Vulnerability Exploitation for Resilient, Secure and Assured Risk/Yield) Lab. The ADVERSARY designs and develops future aerospace technology enabling secure, resilient and assured autonomous infrastructure. Falco is the founding chair of the IEEE International Technical Standard for Space System Cybersecurity. He was the former co-founder and CEO of the blockchain-based industrial control security company NeuroMesh Inc., which was acquired by Meta in 2022. He has been listed in Forbes 30 Under 30 for his inventions and contributions to critical infrastructure cyber security, is a Fulbright Scholar and is the recipient of the DARPA RISER and DARPA’s Young Faculty Award for work on building a zero-trust collaboration ecosystem for space systems. Prof. Falco serves as a member of the Department of Homeland Security’s Space Systems Critical Infrastructure Working Group and has been awarded contracts relating to cyber-physical system security for AFRL, US Space Force, NASA and DARPA. Prior to joining Cornell University, Falco was an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University, jointly appointed between the Whiting School of Engineering and the Applied Physics Laboratory. Falco completed his PhD at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Master’s degree at Columbia University and Bachelor’s degree at Cornell University. Prior to academia, Falco co-founded and led Accenture’s Smart Cities business.
Prof. Caroline Kennedy-Pipe is Professor of International Relations and International Security at the School of Social, Political and Geographical Sciences, Loughborough University. She joined Loughborough in 2018 from the University of Hull, where she was Professor of War Studies and Director of the Centre for Security Studies. Her research interests include contemporary war, the ethics of war and Cold War politics as well as terrorism and Russian foreign policy. She is currently President of the British International Studies Association and was Chair of the Association from 2004 to 2006. She has a first class honours degree in History, an MsC Econ in Strategic Studies and a DPhil in International Relations. She was previously Chair of War Studies at The University of Warwick and had previously been Chair of International Relations, University of Sheffield. Her previous posts include Reader in Politics, at the University of Durham and Director of the Institute for International Studies at the University of Leeds. She has been quoted as ‘One of the UK’s leading experts in war’ in the Guardian.
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