Ulf Lindqvist

Ulf Lindqvist, Ph.D., is a senior technical director in the Computer Science Laboratory at SRI International. He manages research and development programs regarding infrastructure security for government and commercial clients. His areas of expertise include cyber security, space systems, infrastructure systems, intrusion detection in computer systems, and security for systems that interact with the physical world.

Lindqvist has more than 40 publications in the computer security area, many of which are bridging the gap between theoretical and applied research, and he holds several patents.

Lindqvist established and leads SRI’s program in infrastructure security research, which is focused on cybersecurity for critical infrastructure systems, including specialized systems in the space, electric power, oil and gas, telecommunications, finance, automotive, and aviation sectors. He served as the 2016-2017 chair of the IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Committee on Security and Privacy and also served as the vice chair of the IEEE Cybersecurity Initiative. Previously, he served three years on the Executive Committee of the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection, a consortium of leading national cyber security institutions, including academic research centers, government laboratories, and nonprofit organizations.

Lindqvist holds a Ph.D. in computer engineering from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. He was named an SRI Fellow in 2016.