Founder, Advisory Board Chair
Dr. Avi Rubin is the Founder and Advisory Board Chair of Harbor Labs. Dr. Rubin’s technical leadership is reflected in every Harbor Labs initiative, whether advising on client engagements or providing technical oversight to the engineering staff. Dr. Rubin is a Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, where during his tenure he served as the Technical Director of the JHU Information Security Institute. While at JHU, he also founded and served as director of the JHU Health and Medical Security Lab (HMS), where his pioneering work advanced medical device security and future healthcare networks. Many of Harbor Labs’ senior staff studied under Dr. Rubin at JHU, receiving their PhDs through the JHU HMS.
Dr. Rubin has testified on national healthcare cybersecurity policy before the U.S. House and Senate on multiple occasions, and has authored several books on computer security. He is a frequent keynote speaker at industry and academic conferences, and delivered widely viewed TED talks in 2011 and 2015.
His Ph.D. from the University of Michigan is in the area of Applied Cryptography and Computer Security.
