Steven Hofmeyr

Who is Steven Hofmeyr?

Steven Hofmeyr received a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1999 from the

University of New Mexico (UNM), focusing on immunological approaches to

computer security. During his studies, he spent a year at the

Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT. After finishing his Ph.D. he was a

post-doctoral researcher at UNM, and closely associated with the Santa

Fe Institute for Complexity Studies. Steven Hofmeyr has authored and

co-authored many papers published in conference proceedings and

peer-reviewed journals on computer security, immunology and adaptive

computation. He has served on the program committee for the ACM's New

Security Paradigms Workshop, as well as the program committee for the

Artificial Immune Systems workshop at the IEEE World Congress on

Computational Intelligence. In 2003, MIT's Technology Review named

Steven Hofmeyr as one of the top 100 young innovators under 35, and in

2004, he was named one of the 12 innovators of the year by InfoWorld.