Dr. Simson Garfinkel

Simson Garfinkel is the Chief Scientist of BasisTech, LLC., a technology accelerator in Somerville, Massachusetts, and a Lecturer at Harvard University, where he teaches on Cybersecurity Policy at the Kennedy School of Government and an interdisciplinary course on AI, Internet of Things, and Cybersecurity at the Harvard Division of Continuing Education.

Dr. Garfinkel holds seven US patents and has published more than 80 research articles in computer security and digital forensics. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a member of the National Association of Science Writers.

Garfinkel is the co-author of Law and Policy for the Quantum Age, which explores the technology, history, policy, and business implications of quantum information science. As a journalist, he has written about science, technology, and technology policy in the popular press since 1983, and has won several national journalism awards.

Garfinkel received three Bachelor of Science degrees from MIT in 1987, a Master of Science in Journalism from Columbia University in 1988, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT in 2005.