Dr. Dan Massey (re)joined USC ISI in the Networking and Cybersecurity Division in 2022. He has more than 25 years of research and management experience and is the author over 100 peer reviewed publications on networking and cyber security. He has served as the Principal Investigator on research funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and industry.

Dr. Massey served as a Program Director at the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense - Research and Engineering where  he led the DoD Operate Through 5G Initiative. He also served as a Program Manager in the Cyber Security Division, Science and Technology Directorate, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) where he developed and managed the Distributed Denial of Service Defense (DDoSD) program and the Cyber Physical Systems Security (CPSSEC) program.

As a tenured faculty member, he helped develop cybersecurity programs at both the University of Colorado Boulder and Colorado State University.

Dr. Massey's current work focuses on networking and cybersecurity for emerging networks.

As Director of the DoD Operate Through 5G Initiative, he works on enhancements to end devices and augmentations to 5G networks that help DoD securely operate through commercial 5G networks across the globe.

As a Program Manager at the Department of Homeland Security, he developed and led the Cyber Physical Systems Security (CPSSEC) program that focused on cyber security for systems that combine the cyber and physical worlds. Cybersecurity for vehicles including development of government/industry consortium and testimony before the European Union Parliament.

Other selected efforts include early work on Named Data Networking, co-editor of the DNS Security Standard (RFCs 4033, 4034, and 4035) and co-developer of the K-12 Cybersecurity Education Framework.

Program Director, DoD Operate Through 5G Initiative, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense - Research and Engineering
Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Colorado Boulder
Program Manager, U.S. Department. of Homeland Security, Science & Technology Directorate, Cyber Security Division
Professor, Computer Science Department, Colorado State Univeristy
Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Colorado State University
Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Colorado State University
Research Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Southern California
Project Leader, USC Information Sciences Institute
Computer Scientist, USC Information Sciences Institute