Jeremy Epstein is co-Director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute‘s Institute for Cybersecurity and Resilient Infrastructure Studies (ICARIS), a joint GTRI/Pacific Northwest National Labs (PNNL) research center focused on industrial control systems cybersecurity, and adjunct professor in the Georgia Tech School of Cybersecurity and Privacy.

Prior to joining GTRI, Jeremy was Assistant Director for Technologies and Privacy at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he was on loan from the National Science Foundation. At NSF he led the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program, NSF’s flagship cybersecurity & privacy research program. He served in fall 2023 as an Embassy Science Fellow at the US Embassy in Jakarta Indonesia. In between his two stints at NSF (2012-2015 and 2017-2025), he spent a year at DARPA managing security and privacy research programs.

Prior to joining NSF in 2012, Jeremy was a researcher at SRI International, director of product security at webMethods, and other roles in industry.

Jeremy is founder of Scholarships for Women Studying Information Security, and past chair of the Association for Computing Machinery US Technology Policy Committee. Other past professional roles include associate editor in chief of IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine, and president of Applied Computer Security Associates, the sponsor of the New Security Paradigms Workshop and Annual Computer Security Applications Conference.

His hobbies include travel, bicycling, and baking.