Jared is a Cyber Security Research Scientist at Oak Ridge National Lab, a Chancellor's PhD Fellow at UT-Knoxville, and a Guest Teacher on Security and Data Science at Treehouse. He has an MS and BS in Computer Science from UT, founded the annual interdisciplinary hackathon - VolHacks, and founded and grew the student-run cyber security organization - HackUTK - from 4 founding members to over 200 before the Cybersecurity Minor existed in the department. He's given over 20 conference talks across the US and Canada in both academic and industry venues, has multiple publications in ACM/IEEE conferences, and holds 3 patents.