Dr. Himanshu Neema is a Principal Research Scientist at the Institute for Software-Integrated Systems at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Neema is the Vanderbilt PI on the ARPA-H UPGRADE TA1 and TA2 projects that aim to protect hospitals from cyber-attacks by creating an Scalable Vulnerability Mitigation Platform and a Device Emulator Synthesis Framework and enabling informed, synchronized, automated patching of medical devices. Dr. Neema is also the Co-PI on DARPA CASTLE TA1 project that aims to create realistic network environments for creating autonomous cybersecurity agents. Dr. Neema is also the Co-PI on DARPA BPL TA1 project that aims to find faults in organizational business processes by automatically representing unstructured business process data and plan information into structured representations and developing algorithms to find faults in the business processes. Dr Neema is the creator of Cyber-Physical Systems Wind Tunnel (CPSWT) – a model-based simulation integration and experimentation framework, and Cybersecurity Evaluation Framework for Industrial Control Systems (CEF-ICS). Both CPSWT and CEF-ICS have been successfully transitioned to the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He has been previously a PI on a range of projects supported by NIST and JHU/APL. Dr. Neema's key research areas include model-based design of CPS, CPS co-simulations with hardware and humans, design automation, machine learning, cybersecurity, vulnerability and risk management, and smart grids. He has received MS and PhD in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University. He has over 27 years of research and development experience and has co-authored more than 80 publications.