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Joseph Lorenzo Hall

Joseph Lorenzo Hall
Distinguished Technologist, Strong Internet
Internet Society
11710 Plaza America Dr Suite 400
Reston, VA 20190
United States

web: https://josephhall.org/

Education

2008 Ph.D., School of Information; University of California, Berkeley
2005 M.I.M.S., School of Information; University of California, Berkeley
2003 M.A., Astrophysics; University of California, Berkeley
2000 B.S., Physics and Astronomy; Northern Arizona University

Supplementary Education

Fall2003 - Fall2006 Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic
Boalt Hall School of Law (University of California, Berkeley)
Summer2003 Internet Law Program
The Stanford Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School (Stanford Law School and Harvard Law School)
Summer2000 Summer Session Program
International Space University, Summer Session Program (Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (Valparaiso, Chilé))

Experience

Research Experience

January2022 - Present Distinguished Technologist, Strong Internet, Internet Society.
Description: Strategic individual contributor at the senior executive level responsible for 5 Internet Society projects and the delivery of excellence and impact across ISOC's work. The Strong Internet portofolio includes work that seeks to strengthen the Internet, including advocacy promoting end-to-end encryption, defending the Internet at the United Nations, the Networked and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium, the Internet Society amicus Program, and guiding construcive Internet policy). Jointly responsible for leading a diverse, global staff of about 50 subject matter experts, under ISOC's Managing Director
Supervisor: Sally Wentworth; The Internet Society
October2019 - December2021 Senior Vice President, Strong Internet, Internet Society.
Description: Senior executive responsible for 5 of 8 ISOC projects. The Strong Internet portofolio includes work that seeks to strengthen the Internet, including time security, routing security, open standards, encryption policy, and Internet infrastructure policy. Responsible for a diverse, global staff of ~40 subject matter experts
Supervisor: Andrew Sullivan; The Internet Society
September2012 - October2019 Chief Technologist, Center for Democracy & Technology.
Description: Director of the Internet Architecture Project, focusing on: embedding human rights values into technical standards; deep translation between technology, law, and policy communities; and, working to protect security researchers. As Chief Technologist, managed and lead a technical research and advocacy team to support to CDT across all initiatives.
Supervisor: Chris Calabrese; CDT
September2011 - September2012 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, New York University.
Description: Policy research under the HHS SHARPS grant involving the security and privacy of health information technology.
Supervisor: Helen Nissenbaum; Department of Media, Culture and Communication
September2008 - August2011 ACCURATE Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of California, Berkeley and Princeton University.
Description: Policy research on governmental and electoral transparency.
Supervisor: Deirdre K. Mulligan and Edward W. Felten; UC Berkeley School of Information and Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy
Spring2005 - Spring2008 Graduate Student Researcher, University of California, Berkeley.
Description: Election law and policy research with NSF ACCURATE center.
Supervisor: Deirdre K. Mulligan; Boalt Hall School of Law
Summer2004 Graduate Student Researcher, University of California, Berkeley.
Description: Information consumption research via qualitative interview methods and information consumption diary studies.
Supervisor: Peter Lyman; School of Information Management and Systems
September2002 - Fall2003 Graduate Student Researcher, University of California, Berkeley.
Description: Spectroscopic binary Brown Dwarf research.
Supervisor: Gibor Basri; Department of Astronomy
May2002 - September2002 Graduate Student Researcher, University of California, Berkeley.
Description: Developed spectroscopic labeling tool.
Supervisor: James Graham; Department of Astronomy
September2001 - May2002 Research Assistant, University of California, Berkeley.
Description: Further Titan particulate research.
Supervisor: Caitlin A. Griffith; Department of Astronomy
May2000 - September2001 Research Technician, Northern Arizona University.
Description: Investigated particulates in Titan's atmosphere.
Supervisor: Caitlin A. Griffith; Physics and Astronomy Department
September1997 - May2000 Research Assistant, Northern Arizona University.
Description: Investigated clouds in the atmosphere of Titan.
Supervisor: Caitlin A. Griffith; Physics and Astronomy Department

Teaching Experience

Spring2012 Head Instructor
Course: MCC-UE1303 -- Privacy and Media Technology
Instructor(s): Joseph Lorenzo Hall; New York University
Fall2005 Graduate Teaching Assistant
Course: InfoSys296A-2 -- Open Source Development and Distribution of Digital Information: Economic, Legal and Social Perspectives
Instructor(s): Pamela Samuelson, Steven Weber, Mitchell Kapor; University of California, Berkeley
Spring2005 Graduate Teaching Assistant
Course: InfoSys296A-2 -- Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Technology: Legal and Policy Challenges
Instructor(s): Pamela Samuelson; University of California, Berkeley
Spring2004 Head Graduate Student Instructor
Course: Astro10 -- Introduction to General Astronomy
Instructor(s): Steven Stahler; University of California, Berkeley
Fall2003 Graduate Student Instructor
Course: Astro10 -- Introduction to General Astronomy
Instructor(s): Gibor Basri; University of California, Berkeley
Fall2002 Graduate Student Instructor
Course: Astro10 -- Introduction to General Astronomy
Instructor(s): Alexei Filippenko; University of California, Berkeley
Spring2002 Graduate Student Instructor
Course: Astro12 -- The Planets
Instructor(s): Imke de Pater, Raymond Jeanloz; University of California, Berkeley
Fall2001 Graduate Student Instructor
Course: Astro10 -- Introduction to General Astronomy
Instructor(s): Alexei Filippenko; University of California, Berkeley
Spring1997 Academic Tutor
Course: Math -- Calculus I, II and III
Instructor(s): North Learning Assistance Center; Northern Arizona University

Awards and Honors

2025 IP3 Internet Protocol Award
Public Knowledge
2017 2017 Defender Awards: Researcher
O'Reilly Security Conference
2012 John Gideon Memorial Award
Election Verification Network
Fall2003 Wiche Fellowship, School of Information Management and Systems
University of California, Berkeley
Spring2003 Berkeley Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, School of Information Management and Systems
University of California, Berkeley
Spring2002 Alliance For Graduate Education and The Professoriate Supplementation Fellowship
University of California, Berkeley
2001 - 2004 Berkeley Edge Academic Fellowship
University of California, Berkeley
2001 - 2002 Honorable Mention, Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship For Minorities
The Ford Foundation
2000 Physics and Astronomy Department Senior Bedwell Scholar
Northern Arizona University
2000 Outstanding Student of Physics and Astronomy
Northern Arizona University
2000 Henry Hooper Undergraduate Research Grant
Northern Arizona University
1998 - 1999 Physics and Astronomy Department Chair's Scholar
Northern Arizona University
1999 Physics and Astronomy Department Vesto M. Slipher Scholar
Northern Arizona University

Extracurricular Activity

January2020 - Present Member and Co-Chair, Advisory Council
The Center for Democracy and Technology
2023 Program Chair
USENIX Enigma
December2011 - Fall2019 Vice Chairmain, Board of Directors
California Voter Foundation
Spring2013 - Fall2019 Member, Board of Directors
Verified Voting Foundation
Spring2019 - Fall2019 Member, Board of Advisors
VotingWorks
Spring2018 - Fall2019 Member, Advisory Committee
Center for Civic Design
Spring2018 - Fall2019 Member, Selections Board, Fellowship Program
Aspen Institute, Aspen Tech Policy Hub
Fall2015 - Fall2019 Member, Selections Board/Advisory Board, Congressional Innovation Fellows
TechCongress
Spring2014 - Fall2019 Member, Technical Advisory Board
Election Registration Information Center (ERIC)
Spring2013 - Fall2019 Member, Technical Advisory Board
Los Angeles County Voting System Assessment Project
2019 Program Committee
USENIX Security 2019
2016 Program Committee
2nd International Workshop on Privacy Engineering (IWPE'16)
Spring2013 - Summer2015 Member, Steering Committee and Editorial Board
USENIX Journal of Election Technology and Systems (JETS)
Summer2011 - Fall2014 Member, Advisory Panel
California Secretary of State, Post-Election Risk-Limiting Audit Pilot Program
May2013 - March2015 Member, Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council (CSRIC) IV
Federal Communications Commission
2013 Program Committee
4th International Conference on E-voting and Identity (VoteID 2013)
Fall2011 - Fall2012 Research Fellow
New York University School of Law, Information Law Institute
2012 Program Committee
2012 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/Workshop on Trustworthy Elections (EVT/WOTE '12)
2012 Organizing Committee
Mobile and Location Privacy: A Technology and Policy Dialog (A joint NYU/Princeton conference)
2008 - 2011 Coordinating Committee Member
Election Verification Network
2008 - 2011 Member, Board of Directors
California Voter Foundation
2011 Program Committee
3rd International Conference on E-voting and Identity (VoteID 2011)
2011 Study Panel Member
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)/National Science Foundation (NSF); Ethical Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Study of Human Subjects Research in Computer Science
2011 Program Committee
2011 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/Workshop on Trustworthy Elections (EVT/WOTE '11)
2011 Program Committee
1st Global Conference on Transparency Research
2010 Expert Advisory Panel
Maryland General Assembly Department of Legislative Services (via RTI International); Maryland Voting Systems Study
2010 Program Committee
Workshop on Governance of Technology, Information, and Policies (GTIP)
2010 Program Chair
Open Government: Defining, Designing and Sustaining Transparency
2010 Program Committee
2010 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/Workshop on Trustworthy Elections (EVT/WOTE '10)
2010 Program Committee Member
Fifth Annual iSchools Conference 2009 (iConference '09)
2009 Program Chair
2009 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/Workshop on Trustworthy Elections (EVT/WOTE '09)
2009 Organizing Committee Member
2009 Election Verification Network (EVN) Conference
2008 Program Committee Member
2008 USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workshop (EVT '08)
2007 Academic Review Team Member
Ohio Secretary of State; Evaluation and Validation of Election-Related Equipment, Standards and Testing (EVEREST)
2007 Academic Review Team Member
California Secretary of State; Top-To-Bottom Review (TTBR) of Voting Systems
2007 Graduate Student Representative
Committee on Computing and Communications (COMP), UC Berkeley Academic Senate
2007 Program Committee Member
IAVoSS Workshop On Trustworthy Elections (WOTE 2007)
Spring2006 - Present Member
National Committee for Voting Integrity
2005 Graduate Student Representative
Berkeley Information Technology Review Committee
Fall2004 - Fall2005 Graduate Student Representative
eBerkeley Steering Committee
2002 - 2005 Graduate Student Representative
KALX Radio Policy Advisory Board
2000 - Present Member
Sigma Delta Pi, National Collegiate Spanish Honor Society
2002 - 2004 Graduate Student Representative
Educational Technology Committee (eBerkeley)
2003 Parliamentarian and Delegate
Graduate Assembly (GA) of the University of California, Berkeley
2003 Chair
GA Organization and Rules Committee
2003 Organization and Rules Representative
GA Executive Committee

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Unreviewed Publications

Presentations and Testimony