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Farnam Jahanian
President
Henry L. Hillman President's Chair
Professor of Computer Science
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Information Systems & Management

Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA  15213
office: Warner Hall, 6th fl.
phone:  412.268.2200
email:  f...@cmu.edu
Executive Administrator:  Kelly Elder
email: k...@andrew.cmu.edu

Selected Invited Talks and Lectures (2011-Present)

• “The Cybersecurity Imperative,” Keynote Address, DSN 2017: The 47th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, Denver, CO, June 2017.

• “Innovation and Impact in Cyber Security,” Keynote Address, National Science Foundation's 2017 Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) Principal Investigators' Meeting, Arlington, VA January 2017.

• “Smart & Connected Communities” Panel, Computing Research Association (CRA) Conference, Snowbird, UT, July 2016.

• “Research Funding Overview,” Invited Talk, Computing Research Association’s 2016 Career Mentoring Workshop, Arlington, VA, February 2016.

• “Academic Perspectives Panel on Smart Cities,” White House Smart Cities Forum, Washington, D.C., September 2015.

• “Accelerating Innovation in a Connected and Data-Rich World: Technology Trends, Disruptive Forces and Market Opportunities,” Keynote, 25th Anniversary Conference, Carnegie Bosch Institute, September 2015.

• “Unleashing the Discovery and Innovation Ecosystem,” CSTB Continuing Innovation in Information Technology Forum, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., March 2015.

• “The Transformative Impact of Computing and Communication in a Data-driven World,” Invited talk, Organick Lecture Series, University of Utah, February 2015.

• “Unleashing the Discovery and Innovation Ecosystem,” Keynote and Panel, National Security Agency Cyber Security Forum, Baltimore, MD, October 2014.

• “The Imperative for a Cyber Secure Society,” Keynote Address, Information Trust Institute 10-Year Anniversary, University of Illinois, September 2014.

• “Computation and Data in Networked World,” Keynote Address, ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), Philadelphia, PA, August 2014.

• “The Transformative Impact of Computation and Communication in a Data-Driven World,” Keynote Address, Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, July 2014.

• “The Imperative of Research in the Innovation Ecosystem,” Invited Talk, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) CI Fellows Workshop, San Francisco, CA, May 2014.

• “Innovating for Society: The Transformative Impact of Computing in a Data-Driven World,” Invited talk, Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W), Grad Cohort Workshop, Santa Clara, CA, April 2014.

• “The Policy Infrastructure for Big Data: From Data to Knowledge to Action,” Invited talk and panel, Big Data Future Conference, Ohio State University, March 2014.

• “Accelerating Innovation in Big Data: From Data to Knowledge to Action,” Keynote Address, Big Data Summit, Washington, DC, March 2014.

• “The Transformative Impact of Computation in a Data-Driven World,” Invited Talk, Super Computing (SC) 2013, Denver, CO, November 2013.

• “The Imperative for a Cyber Secure Society,” Keynote Lecture, Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference (ARC' 13), Qatar National Convention Center, Doha, November 2013.

• “Innovating for Society: Realizing the Transformative Impact of Computing and Communication,” Carnegie Mellon University, November 2013.

• “Harnessing the Promise of Data,” Data to Knowledge to Action: Building New Partnerships, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Washington, DC, November 2013.

• “Innovating for Society: Realizing the Transformative Impact of Computing and Communication,” CSAIL Colloquium, MIT, September 2013.

• “Innovating for Society: Realizing the Transformative Impact of Computing and Communication,” Invited Talk, Task Force on American Innovation, Washington, DC, September 2013.

• “Innovating for Society: Realizing the Transformative Impact of Computing and Communication,” Keynote Address, Front Range Consortium for Research Computing HPC Symposium, University of Wyoming, August 2013.

• “Building and Protecting Michigan’s Critical Cyber Infrastructure,” Panel, Mackinac Policy Conference, May 2013.

• “The Promise of Big Data,” White House Big Data Partners Workshop, Washington, DC, May 2013.

• “Innovating for Society: Realizing the Transformative Impact of Computing and Communication,” CSE Colloquium, University of Washington, May 2013.

• “Congressional Testimony on “Next Generation Computing and Big Data Analytics,” Subcommittee on Technology and Subcommittee on Research Joint Hearing, Washington, DC, April 2013.

• Leadership in Science Policy Institute, Computing Community Consortium (CCC), Invited Talk, Washington, DC, April 2013.

• “From Data to Knowledge to Discovery,” Keynote Address, Research Data Alliance Launch, Gothenburg, Sweden, March 2013.

• “Pillars of Societal Innovation: The Growing Imperative of Research and Education in Computing,” Biennial CRA Conference at Snowbird, Snowbird, UT, July 2012.

• “Big Data: What it Means and How it Drives Innovation,” TechAmerica U.S. Congressional Big Data Staff Briefing, Washington, DC, May 2012.

• “Realizing the Transformative Impact of Computing and Communication,” Keynote Address, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department Heads Association, Annual Conference, Orlando, Florida, March 2012.

• “Beyond Moore's Law: A Golden Opportunity for Innovations in Architecture and Software,” AAAS Annual Meeting, Vancouver, CA, February 2012.

• “IT Discovery and Innovation Ecosystem,” Symposium on the Impact Networking and Information Technology, 20th Anniversary of NITRD, Washington, DC, February 2012.

• “NSF CISE Programs, Plans and Budget,” Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC) Spring Meeting, Arlington, VA, February 2012.

• “Innovating for Society: Realizing the Promise of Computing and Communications,” Columbia University, New York, January 2012.

• “Trends, Advances and Transformative Research Opportunities in Computing and Communication,” Keynote Address, Symposium Beyond the Info-plosion, Tokyo, Japan, January 2012.

• “Innovating for Society: Realizing the Promise of Computing and Communications,” Keynote Address, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Houston, TX, December 2011.

• “Innovating for Society: Realizing the Promise and Potential of Computing,” Cray Distinguished Speaker Series, University of Minnesota, November 2011.

• “Reflections on the Evolution of Internet Threats: 
The Growing Imperative for a Cyber Secure Society,” Keynote Address, 18th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Chicago, Illinois, October 2011.

• “The Promise of Smart Health,” Keynote Address, Wireless Health Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, October 2011.

• “Innovating for Society: Realizing the Promise and Potential of Computing,” Keynote Address, 17th Annual ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom), September 2011.

• “CPS Past and Future,” Cyber Physical Systems Principal Investigator Meeting, National Harbor, MD, August 2011.

• “Innovating for Society: Realizing the Promise and Potential of Computing,” Keynote Address, International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), June 2011.

• Congressional Testimony on “Protecting Information in the Digital Age,” Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation and Subcommittee on Research and Science Education Joint Hearing, Washington, DC, May 2011.

• “The Growing Imperative and Transformative Impact of Cyber-Physical Systems,” Keynote Address, Cyber Physical Systems Week, April 2011.

• “Securing the Internet Cloud: A Perspective on Seeding Innovation and Technology Transfer,” New Enterprise Forum Entrepreneur of the Year Speech, NEF 25th Anniversary Gala, February 2011.