Mario Baldini graduated in Computer Science from the Federal University of Santa Catarina and enrolled in the Electrical Engineering Masters program. He has developed several biomedical signal acquisition systems and mission-critical industrial controllers. He works actively with start-ups in Brazil to foster embedded electronic device development and Internet of Things projects in the region.
Chirag Nagpal is currently in the junior year of Computer Engineering at the University of Pune, India. His research interests include machine learning and data mining. He is currently an intern at the Supercomputer Education and Research Centre at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, where he works on problems involving the application of AI techniques to analyze data from social networks. He is a recipient of the Indian Academy of Sciences Research Fellowship and an Institution of Engineering and Technology scholarship.
Apart from his academic work, he enjoys hacking hardware and explores the developing area of the Internet of Things. Some of his work has been featured on Hackaday and Dangerous Prototypes. He has also been involved with the Texas Instruments Centre for Embedded Product Design at NSIT, Delhi, where he has trained undergraduates from across India on TI microcontrollers and development boards. He is also a licensed ham, with the call sign VU2CND. Complete details of his projects are available at http://www.chiragnagpal.com.
Dr. Philip Polstra (known to his friends as Dr. Phil) is an internationally recognized hardware hacker. His work has been presented at numerous conferences around the globe, including repeat performances at DEFCON, Blackhat, 44CON, Maker Faire, GrrCON, ForenSecure, and other top conferences. He is a well-known expert on USB forensics and has published several articles on this topic.
He has developed a penetration testing Linux distribution, known as The Deck, for the BeagleBone and BeagleBoard family of small computer boards. He has also developed a new way of doing penetration testing with multiple low-power devices, including an aerial hacking drone. This work is described in his book, Hacking and Penetration Testing With Low Power Devices, Syngress. He has also been a technical reviewer on several books including BeagleBone for Secret Agents and BeagleBone Home Automation, both by Packt Publishing.
He is an associate professor at Bloomsburg University, Pennsylvania (http://bloomu.edu/digital_forensics), where he teaches digital forensics, among other topics. In addition to teaching, he provides training and performs penetration tests on a consulting basis. When not working, he is known to fly, build aircrafts, and tinker with electronics. His latest happenings can be found on his blog at http://philpolstra.com. You can also follow him on Twitter at @ppolstra.
Glenn Vander Veer has been an embedded developer for over 15 years in various industries ranging from telecom to medical to electrical smart grids. He has developed code for a large variety of microprocessors and microcontrollers over this time. Lately, he has been developing code for electrical smart meters to aid in the collection of billing data and transmitting that data to the billing company.
