Information Systems Technology
Technical Biography
Richard P. Lippmann
Lincoln Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Information Systems Technology Group
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Lexington, MA 02420-9108
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email: lippmann@ll.mit.edu
Richard P. Lippmann is a Senior Staff Member in the Information Systems Technology Group . His work focuses on improving the security of large enterprise computer networks. He received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1970 and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978 developing improved signal processing algorithms for the hearing impaired. From 1978 to 1981, he was Director of the Communications Engineering Laboratory of the Boys Town Institute for Communication Disorders in Children, Omaha, NE. He worked on speech perception, speech-training aids for deaf children, sound-alerting aids for the deaf, and signal processing for hearing aids.
In 1981 he joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lincoln Laboratory. Research interests have included speech recognition by humans and machines, development of improved neural network and statistical pattern classifiers, the development of open-source LNKnet software for pattern classification, automatically analyzing the security of large networks and finding effective remediations, and the application of neural networks and statistics to problems in computer security including intrusion detection, attack graph analysis, and estimating the risk from a variety of threats. He has supervised numerous MIT student theses in these and other areas.
Dr. Lippmann has been a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He received the first IEEE Signal Processing Magazine award for an article entitled "An Introduction to Computing with Neural Nets," published in April 1987. He was program chair of the 1989 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) and is a founding member of the NIPS Foundation created to support this yearly conference. More recently he was program chair of the 2008 Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID) conference and is a member of IEEE Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee. In the past year he has co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Machine Learning on “Machine Learning in Adversarial Environments”, contributed to a workshop sponsored by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on “Computational Cyberdefense in Compromised Environments,” organized and chaired a session on “Protecting Enterprise Networks” as part of in the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Communications and Networking Workshop, wrote major sections of a final report and participated in an IA Metrics Study for Steve King - the Associate Directory of IA in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Science and Technology, and reviewed articles for many technical journals.