Joshua Saxe is Chief Data Scientist at the major security vendor Sophos, where he leads a security data science research team. He’s also a principal inventor of Sophos’ neural network–based malware detector, which defends tens of millions of Sophos customers from malware infections. Before joining Sophos, Joshua spent five years leading DARPA-funded security data research projects for the US government.
Hillary Sanders is a senior software engineer and data scientist at Sophos, where she has played a key role in inventing and productizing neural network, machine learning, and malware similarity analysis technologies. Before joining Sophos, Hillary was a data scientist at Premise Data Corporation. She is a regular speaker at security conferences, having given security data science talks at Blackhat USA and BSides Las Vegas. She studied Statistics at UC Berkeley.