Peter Chapman is a PhD student in the Computer Science department at Carnegie Mellon University. He is advised by Professor David Brumley researching computer security. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 2012 with a BA in Computer Science.  Before arriving at CMU, Peter interned at Microsoft Research and worked for the education startup Udacity.

The Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP) and the National Security Agency are designing and hosting picoCTF, a nation-wide high school computer security competition with the primary goal of encouraging computer security and computer science education. As of 2012, less than 10% of high schools offer Computer Science Advanced Placement tests and only 15,000 students take the exam annually. We feel that these low participation rates are a disservice to students and detrimental to the competitiveness of the nation. By organizing a competition that presents computer science from an exciting perspective, we hope to encourage students to enter the field. Additionally, by creating the educational materials that allow students from all backgrounds to participate, we can offer high school instructors the foundation on which to build engaging supplements to existing computer science curricula. Altogether, picoCTF is a significant undertaking and the opportunity afforded by the V-Unit program allows me to build the competition we envision.