40 Under 40 in Cybersecurity

Dr. Keeper Sharkey, a CBC research associate and founder of ODE, L3C, was recently highlighted in the 40 Under 40 in Cybersecurity special edition of Top Cyber News Magazine.

The special edition spotlights remarkable cybersecurity and digital industry professionals. Dr. Sharkey's research involves theorizing using "Quantum Chemistry for Detecting Cyber Security Threats on Information Systems," which is also the name of the paper that led to Dr. Sharkey’s designation as a panelist at the Department of the Air Force Information Technology Conference (DAFITC) in August of 2022. 

In the paper, Dr. Sharkey writes, “Potentially breakthrough progress is being made in the realm of explicitly correlated particles using next generation scaling algorithms. This work has the potential to redefine the battlefield by relating PKI directly in chemical states. Highly accurate descriptions of vibrations and heat motion of atoms/ions, molecules as qubits or qudits that are caused by electric and magnetic fields are necessary to find and isolate security threats in information systems. Currently accepted by the broader scientific community, the Born-Oppenheimer-type Hamiltonians (BOH) used to describe physical properties of chemical systems neglect the mass polarization interactions and explicit particle correlations that need to describe vibrations and heat motions in the excited states of [qubits/]qudits used for quantum information processing.”

Dr. Sharkey is a CBC alumni and was published 6 times as an undergraduate, 20 times as a graduate student, and 4 times thus far as a research associate with the Adamowicz group. All of these publications can be found here. Dr. Sharkey also recently published the book Quantum Chemistry Computing for the Curious.