Biography

Brent Lagesse is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington Bothell. His work is primarily in the areas of security, mobile systems, and machine learning with a special focus on where these topics intersect. He was a Cybersecurity Fulbright Scholar at the University of Cambridge in 2018 and the Johann-von-Spix International Guest Professor at the University of Bamberg in 2019-20.

His recent work has included automatically detecting hidden webcams, reducing the cost of accurately predicting air pollution levels in indoor spaces, secure and private crowdsensing technologies, and addressing workforce needs and barriers to entry at the intersection of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.

Prior to coming to UW Bothell, he held positions as a research scientist in the cybersecurity research groups at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and BBN Technologies.