Prof. Dr. Rick Kuhn

Rick Kuhn is a computer scientist at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology, and is a Fellow of the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).  He has authored three books and more than 150 research papers,
with more than 20,000 citations, on cybersecurity, empirical studies of software failure, and software assurance.  He co-
developed the role based access control model (RBAC) used worldwide and led the effort that established RBAC as an
international standard. Previously he served as program manager for the Committee on Applications and Technology of
the President’s  Information Infrastructure Task Force, as manager  of the Software Quality Group at NIST, and as a
software developer at NCR Corp. and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.  Kuhn’s work has focused on access
control and combinatorial methods for testing and verification. He received an MS in computer science from the
University of Maryland College Park, and an MBA (finance) from the College of William & Mary.
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