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Gregory Falco is an American inventor and researcher. Falco is a Professor at Johns Hopkins University. His work lies mainly in the area of cybersecurity research and its aerospace applications.

Falco earned his B.S. from Cornell University in 2010, M.S. from Columbia University in 2012. and Ph.D., from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018. He completed a predoctoral fellowship with the Cyber Security Project at Harvard University. His postdoctoral research was conducted at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at the Cyber Policy Center at Stanford University. Falco's PhD was funded by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to develop an AI system to automatically enumerate cybersecurity threats to space mission systems.^[1]

He began his career at Accenture where he was an executive in the Strategy & Sustainability practice. While at Accenture, he lectured at Columbia University and taught a course on Smart Cities and the Evolution of Sustainability.^[2][3]

In 2021, Falco joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins University as an Assistant Professor at their Institute for Assured Autonomy.^[4][5][6][7] Falco is the director of the Aerospace ADVERSARY Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University.^[8]

Falco's main area of work is space cybersecurity and mission resilience research.^[9][10][11] In 2018, his paper Cybersecurity Principles for Space Systems, which included recommendations to reduce the cyber risk of the emergent commercial space sector, was published in the Journal of Aerospace Computing.^[12] His work on the topic titled Job One For Space Force: Space Asset Cybersecurity was published by Harvard’s Belfer Center.^[13][14]

In 2022, he published a monograph co-authored with Eric Rosenbach on cyber risk management titled Confronting Cyber Risk: An Embedded Endurance Strategy for Cybersecurity.^[15]

Falco has been interviewed by The New York Times, the Associated Press and NPR for All Things Considered.^{[16] [17] [18]} He has authored opinion pieces in popular media The Washington Post and The San Francisco Chronicle.^{[19] [20]}

In his capacity as a space cybersecurity expert, he was cast in the documentary Space War Secrets produced by BBC Studios and the documentary science television series Space's Deepest Secrets on the Science Channel.^{[21] [22]} Additionally, Falco has appeared on Sveriges Television, Sweden's national public television broadcaster, to discuss space system cybersecurity.^[23]

Falco was named Forbes 30 Under 30 in enterprise technology in 2018.^[24] In 2020-2021, he was awarded a Fulbright-NSF Cyber-Security and Critical Infrastructure Scholar in Iceland.^[25]

Falco was selected as a 2022 DARPA Riser and was also awarded a DARPA Young Faculty Award for his project Orbital Resilient Blockchain Interagent Transaction Service (ORBITS) Architecture: A Resilient, Zero-Trust Architecture for Hosted Payloads and Space Infrastructure as a Service.^{[26] [27]}