Blake Anderson currently works as a Senior Technical Leader in Cisco's Advanced Security Research team. Since starting at Cisco in early 2015, he has participated in and led projects aimed at improving (encrypted) network traffic analysis, which has resulted in open source projects, academic publications, and some patents. He and his collaborators published the initial research that eventually became Cisco's Encrypted Traffic Analytics (ETA) solution. Before Cisco, Blake received his PhD in machine learning/security from the University of New Mexico and worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a staff scientist.