James Curbo

Talks and presentations at conferences, seminars, and workshops. Want me to speak at your event? Send me an email.

2026

NASA Core Flight System Symposium

  • Tysons Corner, VA, January 2026
  • Presented on "Lessons Learned in Engineering and Evaluating Cyber Resilience for Flight Software"
  • Member of panel on "Secure Flight Software"
  • Member of panel on "The Future of cFS in Government"

2025

Cislunar Security Conference

  • JHU/APL, Laurel, MD, December 2025
  • Presented on "Cyber Threats to Cislunar Space"

JHU IAA Graduate Student Lightning Talks

  • JHU Homewood Campus, Baltimore, MD, December 2025
  • Presented on "Challenges in Cislunar Cyber and Autonomy"

Workshop on Exploring and Enabling Human-Machine Partnerships for Sustained Deep-Space Presence

  • JHU Bloomberg Center, Washington, DC, December 2025
  • Member of panel on "National Security Perspective"

CyberSat Summit

  • Reston, VA, November 2025
  • Presented on "Cyber Threats to Cislunar Space"
  • Member of panel on "Cyber Resilience in the Launch Era"

IEEE 11th International Conference on Space Mission Challenges in IT (SMC-IT)

  • California Science Center, Los Angeles, CA, July 2025
  • Presented on "Alcyone: A Blueprint for Secure Rust Flight Software" — Paper | Slides
  • Presented on "Cyber Resilience in Cislunar Space: Security Strategies for Large-Scale Space Infrastructure" — Paper | Slides
  • Member of panel on secure development practices for flight software
  • Member of panel on vulnerability and risk analysis for flight software

IEEE Aerospace Conference

  • Big Sky, MT, March 2025
  • Presented on "Testable Cyber Requirements for Space Flight Software" — Paper

JHU IAA Graduate Student Lightning Talks

  • JHU Homewood Campus, Baltimore, MD, January 2025
  • Presented on "Cyber Resilience for Assured Autonomy in Spacecraft"

NASA Core Flight System Symposium

  • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, January 2025
  • Presented on "Attack Surface Analysis for Spacecraft Flight Software"
  • Member of panel on "Space Cybersecurity Challenges"

2024

Cislunar Security Conference

  • JHU/APL, Laurel, MD, December 2024
  • Member of panel on "Cislunar Cybersecurity" organized by the Space ISAC

IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE)

  • Daytona Beach, FL, December 2024
  • Presented on "A Software Defined Networking Architecture for Time Triggered Ethernet in Space Systems" — Paper

IEEE 10th International Conference on Space Mission Challenges in IT (SMC-IT)

  • Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA, July 2024
  • Presented on "Attack Surface Analysis for Spacecraft Flight Software" — Paper | Slides

2023

IEEE 9th International Conference on Space Mission Challenges in IT (SMC-IT)

  • California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, July 2023
  • Presented on "A Research Agenda for Space Flight Software Security" — Paper | Slides

2022

Cislunar Security Conference

  • JHU/APL, Laurel, MD, November 2022
  • Presented on "Cyber Threats to Cislunar Space"

CyberLEO

  • El Segundo, CA, May 2022
  • Presented on "Defending Hosted Payloads on New Space Architectures"

2020

Connections Wargaming Conference

  • Virtual, February 2020
  • Presented on "Cyber AWARE - Improving the Efficiency, Effectiveness and Dynamism of Cyber Wargames" — Slides