Terry R. Merz

Terry R. Merz is a senior research scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), USA and an adjunct professor at the State University of New York (SUNY) College of Emergency Management, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity (CEHC). er work in the field of cybersecurity spans two decades and involves security engineering, testing, and incident response. Since 2014, she has focused exclusively on research and is researching self-healing, situationally aware architectures for power systems, long-term exploratory research on data collected from commercial industrial control systems, the development of theoretical models for the testing and evaluation of binary analysis tools, behavioral information security, and advanced persistent threats. Her current area of research involves the integration of AI in asymmetric cyber operations and analytics. She holds a Doctor of Computer Science from Colorado Technical University, USA.