• August 10, 2024: Participated in an expert panel on the Intersection of AI, Government, and Industry at the Future of Humanity Summit in Washington DC (Aug 9-12, 2024).

• July 26, 2024: Graduated from MIT's Chief Technology Officer (CTO) professional certification program.

• June 25, 2024: Published new LinkedIn Article, "The Risks of Bias in AI"

• June 13, 2024: Nightwing (my employer) filed three new U.S. patent applications for my latest inventions in one day:

  • • "Deepfake, Deception, and Misinformation Detection System," Inventor: Dr. Torsten Staab, U.S. Patent Appl. 63/659,288

    •  "Extensible, Multi-Modal AI Agent Framework", Inventor: Dr. Torsten Staab, U.S. Patent Appl. 63/659,750

    • "Distributed, AI Agent-based Data Quality Control System," Inventors: Dr. Torsten Staab, Gabriel Colmenarez Fuentes, U.S. Patent Appl. 63/659,756

• June 10, 2024: Techopedia Article: "Can Synthetic Data Save AI From Bias and Model Drift?"

• June 5, 2024: AITechPark Guest Article, "Leveraging Generative AI For Advanced Cyber Defense"

• May 9, 2024: Recipient of 2024 Global InfoSec Award for the development of an industry-leading Zero Trust Security Platform

• April 23, 2024: Awarded new patent (U.S. Patent 11,964,762 B2, “Collaborative 3D Mapping and Surface Registration”) 

• "The Risks of Bias in AI", Torsten Staab, LinkedIn, June 25, 2024.

• "Can Synthetic Data Save AI From Bias and Model Drift?" Torsten Staab, Techopedia, June 10, 2024.

• "Leveraging Generative AI For Advanced Cyber Defense," Torsten Staab, et al., AITechPark, June 5, 2024.

• "The Double-Edge Sword: AI's Impact on National Security," Torsten Staab, LinkedIn, April 5, 2024.

• "Cyber Insights 2024: Quantum and the Cryptopocalypse," Torsten Staab, et al., Security Week, February 27, 2024.

• "Cybersecurity Trends and Predictions 2024 From Industry Insiders," Torsten Staab, et al., IT Pro Today, edited by Rick Dagley, January 22, 2024.

• "2024 Quantum Forecasts: Computing, AI, Cybersecurity," Torsten Staab, et al., NextTech Today, January 11, 2024.

• "How will NIST’s new algorithm standards affect organizations moving forward?, " Torsten Staab, Security InfoWatch.com, January 9, 2024.

• "Raytheon 2024 Predictions: Leaders Share Insights on The Year Ahead for the Cybersecurity Industry," Jon Check, Torsten Staab, Nick Carroll, Amy Foy, VMblog.com, December 29, 2023.

• “Insights from Billington Cybersecurity Summit 2023: The Enhanced Threat Surface of 5G/6G & IOT,” Torsten Staab, Cyber Defense Magazine, November 2023 Issue, November 2, 2023.

• “Fortifying Digital Security in the Quantum Era,” Torsten Staab, InformationWeek, The Cyber Jack Podcast, October 26, 2023.

• ,“Will Quantum Computers Become the Next Cyber-Attack Platform?,” Torsten Staab, et al., InformationWeek, edited by John Edwards, October 10, 2023.

• “Zero-Trust Security Exec Predictions for 2023,” Staab, Torsten, et al., Solutions Review - SDxCentral, edited by Nancy Liu, January 3, 2023.

• “Pentagon Builds Breakthrough Cyber Security for Armed Combat Vehicles,” Staab, Torsten, et al., Warrior Maven, edited by Kris Osborn, January 2, 2023.

• “20 Cybersecurity Predictions from Industry Experts for 2023,” Staab, Torsten, et al., Solutions Review - Information Security, edited by Mike Costello, December 12, 2022.

• “Business computing strategies for 2023: From Quantum Computing to Zero Trust,” Torsten Staab, Digital Journal, edited by Dr. Tim Sandle, December 8, 2022.

• “How legacy tech impedes zero trust and what to do about it,” Torsten Staab, CSO, edited by Mary K. Pratt, October 11, 2022.

• “How to develop a Quantum Strategy,” Torsten Staab, The New Stack, edited by Jeff Goldman, September 2, 2022.

• “Raytheon highlights its role in cybersecurity,” Torsten Staab, Tech Republic, edited by Esther Shein, July 21, 2022.

• “More Than A “You’ve Been Breached Mentality,” Torsten Staab, Cyber Defense Magazine, June 28, 2022.

• “Why Business Should Follow government In Adopting Zero trust Cybersecurity Strategies,” Torsten Staab, Forbes, edited by Edward Segal, January 29, 2022.

• “Analyzing and implementation a national zero trust architecture,” Torsten Staab, HelpNetSecurity, October 18, 2021.

• “10 Ways to Avoid Zero-Trust Failure,” Torsten Staab, Dark Reading, edited by Ericka Chickowski, September 20, 2021.

• “Honoring the 3rd Annual National Insider Threat Awareness Month,” Torsten Staab, et al., VmBlog, edited by David Marshall, September 7, 2021.

• “The Path Toward a Holistic Zero Trust Architecture,” Torsten Staab, NextGov, September 16, 2020.

TV

• “Cyber Security: Thinking Like An Attacker,” Torsten Staab, et al., Tomorrow’s World Today TV Show, Zero Trust Security Segment, Discovery Channel, aired January 30, 2022.

Patents

• “Collaborative 3D Mapping and Surface Registration,“ Torsten Staab, Steven Seida, Jody Verret, Richard Ely, Stephen Raif, U.S. Patent 11,964,762 B2, issued Apr. 23, 2024.

• “Adaptive, Multi-Layer Enterprise Data Protection & Resiliency Platform,“ Torsten Staab, U.S. Patent 11,595,411 B2, issued Feb 28, 2023.

• “Hardware Root of Trust Assisted Access Control of Secure Encrypted Drives,“ Nathan Palmer, Torsten Staab, U.S. Patent 11,513,698 B2, issued Nov 29, 2022.

• “Intelligent Location Awareness for Unmanned Systems,” David Theodore, Torsten Staab, U.S. Patent 11,518,513 B2, issued Dec 6, 2022.

• “Small Footprint Heater,” Torsten Staab, U.S. Patent 8,405,006 B2, issued Mar. 26, 2013.

• “Apparatus and Method for Mapping an Area of Interest,” Torsten Staab, Daniel Cohen, and Samuel Feller, U.S. Patent 7,627,448 B2, issued Dec. 1, 2009. 

• “Sample Preparation Cartridge and System,” Torsten Staab, International Patent WO 2009/051743 Al, issued Apr. 23, 2009.

• “Flexible, Scalable, Service-Oriented Surveillance System Architecture,” Torsten Staab, U.S. Patent 8,183,994 B2, issued Mar. 26, 2009.

• “Apparatus and Method for Handheld Sampling,” Torsten Staab, U.S. Patent 6,947,866 B2, issued Sept. 20, 2005.  

Patent Applications

• "Distributed, AI Agent-based Data Quality Control System," Torsten Staab, Gabriel Colmenarez Fuentes, U.S. Patent Application 63/659,756, filed June 13, 2024.

• "Extensible, Multi-Modal AI Agent Framework", Torsten Staab, U.S. Patent Application 63/659,750, filed June 13, 2024.

• "Deepfake, Deception, and Misinformation Detection System," Torsten Staab, U.S. Patent Application 63/659,288, filed June 13, 2024.

• “Smart P.O. Box and other Postal Receptacles”, Torsten Staab, U.S. Patent Application 63/586,705, filed Sept. 29, 2023.

• “Dynamic Intelligent Cyber Playbooks”, Torsten Staab, Daniel Rose, Travis Durbin, U.S. Patent Application 63/494,901, filed April 7, 2023.

• “High Assurance Virtual Encryptor System”, Michael Furusawa, Susan Gottschlich, Torsten Staab, U.S. Patent Application 17980958, filed Nov 4, 2022.

• “Optimized Playbook for Impact”, Travis Durbin, Benjamin Gothman, Torsten Staab, Daniel Rose, U.S. Patent Application 63/325,239, filed March 30, 2022.

• “Adaptive Data Selection for Reporting”, Daniel Rose, Torsten Staab, Travis Durbin, U.S. Patent Application 63/292,690, filed December 22, 2021.

• “Context-Aware, Intelligent Beaconing,” Torsten Staab, U.S. Patent Application 17/521,724, filed November 8, 2021.  

• “Evasive Resiliency Countermeasures,“ Daniel Rose, Torsten Staab, U.S. Patent Application 17/499,161, filed October 12, 2021.

• “Enhanced Vehicle Tracker,“ Mike Koontz, Steve Hildner, Andrew Tran, Meera Krishnan, Kevin Holley, Eric Banwart, Torsten Staab. U.S. Patent Application 62/573,342, filed Oct 17, 2017. 

• “Sample Preparation Cartridge and System,” Torsten Staab, U.S. Patent Application 11/875,702, filed Oct. 19, 2007. 

Books

• “Residual Information on Sanitized Magnetic Media: Information Recovery from Degaussed Magnetic Media,” Torsten Staab, ISBN 3836456370, VDM Verlag, March 2008. [Amazon link]

Book Chapters

• “Emerging Sampling and Tracking Technologies,” Torsten Staab, Sampling for Biological Threat Agents, pp. 45-50, ISBN 978-1-55581-450-2, John Wiley & Sons, April 2008. 

• “New Standards and Approaches for Integrating Instruments into Laboratory Automation Systems,” Torsten Staab and Gary W. Kramer, Firepower in the Lab: Automation in the Fight Against Infectious Diseases and Bioterrorism, ISBN 0-309-06849-5, Joseph Henry Press, July 2001. 

Publications

• “AtmosphereX: A High-Performance Social Media Analytics Platform,” Torsten Staab, Raytheon Technology Today, July 2017. 

• “From the Guest Editor: Informatics to the Rescue,” Torsten Staab, Journal of the Association for Laboratory Automation (JALA), Elsevier Publishers, Vol. 9.6, pp. 11A-12A, December 2004. 

• “Improving Sample Analysis Throughout and Quality with a .NET-based, Real Time QC Decision Support System,” Torsten Staab, Toshiyuki Shiina, and Derek Miller, Journal of the Association for Laboratory Automation (JALA), Elsevier Publishers, Vol. 8.6, pp. 107-112, December 2003. 

• “Software Agent Technology For Today’s IT Systems,” Torsten Staab, Automation & Research Technologies 2003, Sterling Publications Ltd., pp. 73-74, September 2002. 

• “OMG LECIS RFP,” Torsten Staab, Thorsten Richter, Thomas Tauber, Oliver Borchert, Reinhold Schäfer, and Paul Rodziewicz, OMG, lifesci/00-06-0, June 2000. 

• “Next Generation LIMS,” Torsten Staab, Scientific Computing and Instrumentation, Annual LIMS Guide, November 1999. 

• “ASTM E1989-98,” Torsten Staab and John Elling, Technical Report, The Journal of the Association for Laboratory Automation (JALA), Vol. 4.3, pp. 40-42, July 1999. 

• “New Instrument Control Standard,” Torsten Staab and John Elling, Scientific Computing & Instrumentation, pp. 29-36, June 1999. 

• “The Laboratory Equipment Control Interface Specification,” Torsten Staab, Master Thesis, University of New Mexico, December 1998. 

• “The Device Capability Dataset: A Descriptive Approach to Laboratory Automation System Integration Standards,” Torsten Staab and Gary Kramer, Scientific Report, The Journal of the Association for Laboratory Automation (JALA), Vol. 3.5, pp. 45-50, November 1998. 

• “Traffic Control Simulation,” Torsten Staab, Educational Java Applet, Educational Object Economy (EOE) Database, Apple Computer Inc., December 1996. 

• “Design and implementation of a high-level communication protocol for the integration of analytical instruments into an automated laboratory system,” Torsten Staab, Diploma Thesis, Fachhochschule Wiesbaden, Germany, April 1996. 

• “NIST CAALS Device Capability Dataset,” Torsten Staab and Gary Kramer, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), NIST Internal Report 6294, January 1996. 

• “NIST CAALS High-Level Communication Protocol,” Torsten Staab, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), NIST Internal Report, October 1995. 

• “NIST CAALS Common Command Set,” Torsten Staab, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), NIST Internal Report, June 1995.
  
  

Conference Presentations

• "Intersection of AI, Government, and Industry," Government & Industry Expert Panel:  Bryan Talebi (Moderator; Ahura AI), Amelia Powers Gardner (Utah County Commisioner), Torsten Staab (Nightwing), Patrick O'Kain (Borderless Capital), Trent Teyema (FBI Special Agent, CSG Strategies Inc.), Chad D'Amore (Nightwing), Future of Humanity Summit, Washington DC, August 9-12, 2024.

• “The Enhanced Threat Surface of 5G/6G and IoT,” Cyber Security Expert Panel: Peter Romness (Moderator; Cisco), Brian Kelley (US Dept. of Defense), Neal Ziring (NSA), Torsten Staab (Raytheon), Christopher Day (Tenable), 2023 Billington Cybersecurity Summit, Washington DC, September 7, 2023.

• “Zero Trust Security from Tactical Edge to Multi-Cloud,” Torsten Staab, TechNet Fort Bragg, US Army, Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA, February 9, 2023.

• “Zero Trust User and Application Policies,” Cyber Security Expert Panel: Leo Taddeo (Moderator), Peter Romness, Randy Resnick, Torsten Staab, Imran Umar, Billington Cybersecurity Summit 2022, Washington DC, USA, Sept. 7, 2022.

• “Comprehensive, Multi-Level Zero Trust Security for IT & OT Environments,” Torsten Staab, Department of Energy EFOG Annual Cybersecurity Workshop, Virtual, October 20, 2021.

• “REDPro Zero Trust Extended (ZTX),” Torsten Staab, Raytheon 2021 Cyber Summit, Virtual, September 28, 2021.   

• “Cybersecurity Issues Facing the Drone Community,” Expert Panel: Samir Jain (Moderator), Torsten Staab, Pamela Cohn, John Verdi, America Bar Association’s Forum on Air & Space Law, Washington DC, USA, June 18, 2019.

• “DarkLight—A Cloud-Powered, High Performance Dark Web Monitoring Platform,” Torsten Staab, 2017 Joint Information Systems & Computing (IS&C) and Systems Engineering & Architecture (SE&A) Symposium, Raytheon IDS Headquarters, Tewksbury, Massachusetts, USA, April 24-28, 2017.

• “Mobile Sample Tracking and Collection Technologies for Bio-Surveillance & Bio-Forensics,” Craig Blackhart and Torsten Staab, Third National Conference on Environmental Sampling and Detection for Bio-Threat Agents, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, December 2-4, 2008.

• “A field-ruggedized, handheld data acquisition and tracking device for global avian surveillance,” Torsten Staab, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Centers of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance (CEIRS) 2nd Annual Meeting, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, April 15-17, 2008.

• “Development of a Next Generation, Handheld, Forensic Sample Collection and Tracking Device for Homeland Security,” John Jensen and Torsten Staab, LabAutomation 2005 Conference, San Jose, California, USA, January 30 - February 3, 2005.

• “Process Improvement in Analytical Laboratories by Automated QC and Data Management Software,” Toshiyuki Shiina, Torsten Staab, and Craig Blackhart, LabAutomation 2005 Conference, San Jose, California, USA, January 30 - February 3, 2005.

• “Improving Sample Analysis Throughput and Quality with a C#.NET-based, Real-Time QC Decision Support System,” Toshiyuki Shiina, Torsten Staab, and Derek Miller, LabAutomation 2004 Conference, San Jose, California, USA, February 1-5, 2004. 

• “Software Agent Technology in the Laboratory,” Torsten Staab, Lab-Automation 2002 Conference, Palm Springs, California, January 28, 2002.

• “Improving Sample Analysis Throughput and Quality with a C#.NET-based, Real-Time QC Decision Support System,” Toshiyuki Shiina, Torsten Staab, and Derek Miller, LabAutomation 2004 Conference, San Jose, California, USA, February 1-5, 2004. 

• “The Rapid Syndrome Validation Project (RSVP),” Al Zelicoff, Judith Brillman, David Forslund, James George, Sandra Zink, Sascha Koenig, Torsten Staab, Gary Simpson, Edith Umland, and Kevin Bersell, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2001: A Medical Informatics Odyssey—Visions of the Future and Lessons from the Past, Washington DC, USA, November 3-7, 2001.

• “The importance of distributed, component-based healthcare information systems: the role of a service-based architecture,” David Forslund, James George, Sascha Koenig, Torsten Staab, Mary Kratz, and Robert Carter, Fourteenth IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS '01), Washington DC, USA, July 26-27, 2001.

• “Automation of the LANL ARIES Lathe Glovebox,” Pete C. Pittman, Torsten Staab, Dave Nelson, Bill Santistevan, and Wendel Brown, The American Nuclear Society Ninth Topical Meeting on Robotics and Remote Systems, Seattle, Washington, USA, March 4-8, 2001.

• “Standardized, Distributed Instrument Control with the LECIS CORBA IDL,” Torsten Staab, OMG Technical Meeting, Denver, Colorado, USA, March 6, 2000.

• “Federated Healthcare Utilizing CORBAmed Standards,” David Forslund, James George, Torsten Staab, Eugene Gavrilov, Jennifer Rudnick, Terry Weymouth, Srikanth Kotha, Sascha Koenig, Richard Thomsen, and Sandra Zink, RSNA '99 (Radiological Society of North America) Conference, Chicago, Illinois, USA, November 29 - December 3, 1999.

• “Next Generation LIMS,” Torsten Staab, LIMS ‘99 Conference, Basel, Switzerland, June 23-25, 1999.

• “The Missing Link,” Reinhold Schäfer and Torsten Staab, 1999 Conference, Basel, Switzerland, June 23-25, 1999.

• “Next Generation LIMS,” Torsten Staab, LIMS ‘99 Conference, Basel, Switzerland, June 23-25, 1999.

• “Ein standardisiertes Instrumentkontrollprotokol für LIMS,” Torsten Staab, LIMS ‘99 Conference, Basel, Switzerland, June 23-25, 1999.

• “TeleMed: Experiences with a Secure, Scalable, Component-based Virtual Electronic Medical Record System,” David Forslund, James George, Torsten Staab, Richard Thomsen, Sandra Zink, Jennifer Rudnick, Terry Weymouth, and Srikanth Kotha, ATA (American Telemedicine Association) Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, April 20, 1999.

• “TeleMed: Building the Virtual Electronic Medical Record,” David Forslund, James George, Torsten Staab, Eugene Gavrilov, Jennifer Rudnick, Terry Weymouth, Srikanth Kotha, Sascha Koenig, Richard Thomsen, and Sandra Zink, Telemammography/TeleRadiology Working Group, USA, March 19, 1999.

• “ASTM Laboratory Equipment Control Interface Specification Standard E1989-98,” John Elling and Torsten Staab, LabAutomation 1999 Conference, San Diego, California, USA, January 30 - February 3, 1999.

• “TeleMed: Development of a Java/CORBA-based Virtual Electronic Medical Record,” Dave Forslund, James George, Torsten Staab, Eugene Gavrilov, Jennifer Rudnick, Terry Weymouth, Srikanth Kotha, and Sandra Zink, RSNA ‘98 (Radiological Society of North America) Conference, Chicago, Illinois, USA, November 29 - December 4, 1998.

• “Java/CORBA-based Virtual Electronic Medical Record,” Dave Forslund, James George, Torsten Staab, Eugene Gavrilov, Jennifer Rudnick, Terry Weymouth, and Srikanth Kotha, PACMEDTek'98 (Pacific Medical Technology) Symposium, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, August 18-21, 1998.

• “Distributed Telemedicine Using High-Performance Computing Over the Internet,” David Forslund, James George, Eugene Gavrilov, Torsten Staab, Terry Weymouth, and Srikanth Kotha, Seventh IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-7), Chicago, Illinois, USA, July 28-31, 1998.

• “Annual Report from International Standardization Committees,” ASTM, John Elling and Torsten Staab, LabAutomation 1998 Conference, San Diego, California, USA, January 17-21, 1998.

• “Instrument Interfacing Problems and Solutions,” Torsten Staab, LabAutomation 1998 Conference, San Diego, California, USA, Jan. 17-21, 1998.

• “The ASTM LECIS,” Torsten Staab, LIMS ‘97 Conference, The Hague, Netherlands, June 3-5, 1997.

• “The ASTM Laboratory Equipment Control Interface Specification,” Torsten Staab, LabAutomation 1997 Conference, San Diego, CA, USA, January 18-22, 1997.

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)-certified Chief Technology Officer (CTO), July 2024. 

• Microsoft-certified Azure Fundamentals, Certification: 403FEB-J76F2F, December 2023.

• Project Management Institute (PMI)-certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Credential ID: 538007, July 2008 - present.