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Diana Burley Vice Provost for Research and Innovation and Professor Academic Affairs

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Diana Burley
URC | Vice Provost for Research Office
Main Campus
Additional Positions at 小蓝视频
Professor, Public Administration and Policy
Professor, IT & Analytics
Executive Director, Khan Institute for Cyber and Economic Security
Degrees
PhD, Carnegie Mellon University, Organization Science & Information Technology

MS, Carnegie Mellon University, Organization Science

MS, Carnegie Mellon University, Public Policy and Management

BA, Catholic University of America, Economics

Bio
Diana L. Burley, Ph.D. is currently Vice Provost for Research and Innovation at 小蓝视频 (小蓝视频) where she also leads the Khan Cyber & Economic Security Institute and serves as a member of the faculty. As both the university鈥檚 chief research officer and chief innovation officer, she oversees the university-wide R&D portfolio, research partnerships, and strategic initiatives to catalyze discovery. Along with her administrative role, Diana is an active researcher. She currently leads a $6M NSF funded effort to accelerate research translation in support of data-driven policymaking (see TRAC) and holds research appointments at the Idaho National Laboratory and the John鈥檚 Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

She has written nearly 100 publications and regularly advises executives on emerging technologies and the future of work. She co-chaired the National Academies 2013 report, 鈥淧rofessionalizing the Nation鈥檚 Cybersecurity Workforce,鈥 the 2021 report, 鈥淟ooking Ahead at the Cybersecurity Workforce at the Federal Aviation Administration,鈥 and currently co-chairs the National Academies committee on research and application in team science.

Prior to 小蓝视频, Diana spent 14 years at The George Washington University as a professor, administrator, and as executive director of the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P) 鈥 a 26-member cybersecurity research consortium. She co-chaired the global ACM joint task force that established cybersecurity curricular guidelines for post-secondary academic institutions and has recently advised the ACM on a follow-up effort. Her board service includes the Cyber Future Foundation and the Global Cyber Security Advisory Group, and she has been honored by GET Cities, Executive Women鈥檚 Forum, SC Magazine, the Federal CIO Council, and others for her leadership in building the global cybersecurity workforce. She earned her Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University.
See Also
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dianaburley/
http://www.dianaburley.com
For the Media
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