Anton “Tony” Dahbura is the executive director of the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute, co-director of the Johns Hopkins Institute of Assured Autonomy, and an associate research scientist in the Department of Computer Science. He is additionally affiliated with the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare and the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics and leads the Johns Hopkins University Sports Analytics Research Group. His research focuses on security, fault-tolerant computing, distributed systems, and testing.
From 1983 until 1996, he was a researcher at AT&T Bell Laboratories, was an invited lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University, and served as research director at the Motorola Cambridge Research Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 1996, he has led several entrepreneurial efforts in the areas of printing, professional baseball operations, and commercial real estate.
From 2000 to 2002, he served as chair of the Johns Hopkins University Engineering Alumni and, in 2004, was the recipient of the Johns Hopkins Heritage Award for his service to the university. He chaired the Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department Advisory Board from 1998 until 2012, and during that time also served on the Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering’s National Advisory Council. In January 2012, he was named Executive Director of the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and received the IEEE Browder J. Thompson Memorial Prize Paper Award for the most outstanding paper in any IEEE publication by an author under thirty years of age.
Dahbura received his BS, MS, and PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from the Johns Hopkins University in 1981, 1982, and 1984, respectively.