Matt Edman, Ph.D.
SECURITY AND CRYPTOGRAPHY EXPERT, PARTNER AND CO-FOUNDER
Matthew J. Edman, Ph.D. is a computer scientist specializing in cybersecurity and investigations. His areas of expertise include blockchain analysis, security, and investigations; network security, penetration testing, and vulnerability assessments; secure software development and source code audits; and forensic analysis, reverse engineering, and software exploitation. Dr. Edman also provides expert testimony on matters related to cyber security, cryptocurrency, and digital forensic investigations.
Dr. Edman previously worked as a lead cybersecurity engineer for a federally funded research and development center, where he provided specialized computer and network security research and development to federal law enforcement. Leading an interdisciplinary team of researchers, he developed a groundbreaking network-investigative technique that has successfully provided critical intelligence in multiple high-profile law enforcement investigations related to darknet markets.
Prior to co-founding NAXO, Dr. Edman worked as a senior vulnerability engineer for a global financial services, software, and media company based in New York. As a member of the firm’s vulnerability analysis team, his work helped protect sensitive client data from both internal and external threats through continuous research and penetration testing of the firm’s entire technological infrastructure.
Dr. Edman holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Baylor University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where his research areas included novel techniques for cryptographic security and authentication in wireless networks, and the design, implementation, and analysis of anonymous communication systems on the Internet.
He has published scientific articles in peer-reviewed conferences and journals and has served as an invited program committee member for the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security and the IFCA International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security. Dr. Edman has also served as an external reviewer for several academic conferences and journals, including IET Information Security and the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Computer Science - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
M.S., Computer Science - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
B.S., Computer Science - Baylor University