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Meet the Team

Mike Ter Louw, Ph.D.

Director of Advanced Cybersecurity Research

Company Leadership

Kitware Remote

Ph.D. in Computer Science
University of Illinois at Chicago

B.S. in Computer Science
University of Illinois at Chicago

Michael Ter Louw

Mike Ter Louw, Ph.D., is the director of advanced cybersecurity research on Kitware’s Cybersecurity Solutions team. Mike leads and supports research and development initiatives focused on cybersecurity, machine learning, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, anomaly detection, and information systems security. His expertise includes advancing and scaling prototype solutions into deployed capabilities, leading interdisciplinary technical teams, and driving innovation on complex technology projects.

Before joining Kitware, Mike served at CACI, Inc. as vice president and chief science officer, cyber science & technology division, and previously as R&D technical director – active cyber capabilities, technical fellow. In these roles, he directed national security research and development programs focused on artificial intelligence, machine learning, large language models, cybersecurity, and advanced networking technologies. He cultivated and led geographically distributed teams of researchers, scientists, engineers, and technical experts, managed large-scale R&D contracts and operational budgets, and supported the development and deployment of cyber deception and autonomous decision-making capabilities. Prior to CACI, Mike served as a network security research scientist and principal investigator at LGS Innovations, Bell Labs, where he developed NLP-based cybersecurity capabilities, machine learning anomaly detection pipelines, and automated software analysis platforms.

Mike earned his Ph.D. and B.S. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Chicago. His academic and technical background includes work in cybersecurity, machine learning, natural language processing, anomaly detection, network traffic analysis, modeling and simulation, and information and systems security. He is a U.S. Army veteran.

Awards

  • Technical Fellow, for sustained impact, technical depth, innovation, leadership, and market differentiation in the field of Active Cyber Defense, CACI, 2021

  • Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS), LGS Innovations, Bell Labs, 2016

  • Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) Ph.D. Fellowship, 2009

  • Homeland Security Award of Excellence, Caterpillar, 2007

Publications

  1. M. Ter Louw, M. Krull, T. Thomas, R. Cathey, G. Frazier, and M. Weber, "Automated execution control and dynamic behavior monitoring for android (TM) applications," in MILCOM 2013-2013 IEEE Military Communications Conference, 2013. [URL]
  2. M. Ter Louw, P. Phung, R. Krishnamurti, and V. Venkatakrishnan, "SafeScript: JavaScript Transformation for Policy Enforcement," in Secure IT Systems. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013, pp. 67-83. [URL]
  3. M. Beacken, L. Braun, D. Imbesi, L. Greenwald, M. Geller, A. Hartman, M. Chen, M. Louw, A. Piccirilli, and D. Bishop, "LGS' government communications laboratory and research for the U.S. government," Bell Labs Technical Journal, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 5-28, Dec. 2011. [URL]
  4. V. Venkatakrishnan, P. Bisht, M. Ter Louw, M. Zhou, K. Gondi, and K. Ganesh, "WebAppArmor: A Framework for Robust Prevention of Attacks on Web Applications (Invited Paper)," in Information Systems Security. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010, pp. 3-26. [URL]
  5. M. Ter Louw, K. Thotta Ganesh, and V. Venkatakrishnan, "{AdJail}: Practical Enforcement of Confidentiality and Integrity Policies on Web Advertisements," in 19th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 10), 2010. [URL]
  6. M. Ter Louw and V. Venkatakrishnan, "Blueprint: Precise browser-neutral prevention of cross-site scripting attacks," 30th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, vol. 2009, no. 2009, pp. 2009, May 2009. [URL]
  7. M. Ter Louw and V. Venkatakrishnan, "Blueprint: Robust prevention of cross-site scripting attacks for existing browsers," in 2009 30th IEEE symposium on security and privacy, 2009. [URL]
  8. M. Ter Louw, P. Bisht, and V. Venkatakrishnan, "Analysis of hypertext isolation techniques for XSS prevention," Web 2.0 Security and Privacy, May 2008. [URL]
  9. M. Ter Louw, P. Bisht, and V. Venkatakrishnan, "Analysis of Hypertext Markup Isolation Techniques for XSS Prevention," in ICISS'10: Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Information systems security, 2008.
  10. M. Ter Louw, J. Lim, and V. Venkatakrishnan, "Enhancing web browser security against malware extensions," Journal in Computer Virology, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 179-195, Aug. 2008. [URL]
  11. M. Ter Louw, P. Bisht, and V. Venkatakrishnan, "Analysis of hypertext isolation techniques for cross-site scripting prevention," 2nd Workshop in Web, vol. 2, 2008. [URL]
  12. M. Ter Louw, J. Lim, and V. Venkatakrishnan, "Extensible Web Browser Security," in Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007, pp. 1-19. [URL]

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