Dr. Hammond Pearce is a Research Assistant Professor at New York University Tandon School of Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, affiliated with the NYU Center for Cybersecurity. He received the B.E. (Hons) degree in Computer Systems Engineering and the PhD in Computer Systems Engineering both from the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. His primary research focuses are in the cybersecurity of machine learning applications and within industrial and embedded cybersecurity domains. In 2019 he took part in the NASA International Internship Program and worked at NASA Ames in California.