Dr. Celeste Lyn Paul is a senior researcher in the Computer and Analytical Science Research group at the National Security Agency. Her work focuses on understanding and overcoming the challenges of working in cyber operations. She is also an adjunct assistant professor for the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland where she teaches human-computer interaction. Before joining the NSA, Dr. Paul spent a decade in industry working on problems related to security, health informatics, and education. She also spent many years leading usability and design efforts in open source software while serving on the KDE e.V. Board of Directors and the Kubuntu Council. More recently, she was the president of HACDC, a hackerspace focused on community education and outreach in Washington, D.C. Celeste earned her Ph.D. in Human-Centered Computing from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.