Appendix D

Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Principal Staff

HAL S. STERN (Chair) is distinguished professor of statistics at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). He presently serves as co-director of the multi-university Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence, funded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Stern is also part of the leadership team at the Conte Center at UCI, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, which is studying how early-life experiences, and especially early-life adversity, influence brain maturation and contribute to vulnerability to mental health problems throughout life. He is known for his extensive research on Bayesian statistical methods. Stern is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Statistical Association, and the Institute for Mathematical Statistics. He has a B.S. degree in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in statistics from Stanford University. At the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Stern was co-chair of the Panel on Research Methodologies and Statistical Approaches to Understanding Driver Fatigue Factors in Motor Carrier Safety and Driver Health, and chair of the Panel on Assessing the Benefits of the American Community Survey for the National Science Foundation’s Division of Science Resources Statistics.

LYNN A. ADDINGTON is professor of justice, law, and criminology at American University (AU). Her research focuses on fatal and nonfatal victimization and includes post-victimization responses by victims, criminal justice actors, and service providers. Addington’s research also reflects her extensive work with national crime data sources collected by the Federal

Bureau of Investigation, Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), National Center for Education Statistics, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Her current work focuses on older adults and violent crime. Addington’s most recent research has been funded by the National Institute of Justice. She is a past editor of Homicide Studies, and she continues to serve on its editorial board. Addington was a visiting fellow at the BJS, and she received AU’s top award for faculty research. She has a Ph.D. in criminal justice from the University at Albany, State University of New York, and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Beginning August 6, 2024, she was a paid consultant for BJS, working with its contractor Westat to review specific draft questionnaire items related to cybercrime concepts for possible inclusion in supplements to the National Crime Victimization Survey.

DANIEL L. CORK (Study Director) is a senior program officer for the Committee on National Statistics at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. He has served as study director or program officer for almost all census- or American Community Survey-related studies, including the Panels on Residence Rules in the Decennial Census and Research on Future Census Methods (2010 planning panel); the Standing Committee on Reengineering Census Operations; and the panels tasked with evaluating the quality of the 2000, 2010, and 2020 Censuses. He also directed the Panel to Review the Programs of the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Panel on Modernizing the Nation’s Crime Statistics (in cooperation with the Committee on Law and Justice); was senior program officer for the Committee to Assess the Feasibility, Accuracy, and Technical Capability of a National Ballistics Database (joint with the Committee on Law and Justice and the National Materials Advisory Board); and contributed to the work of the Committee on Best Practices for Assessing Mortality and Significant Morbidity Following Large-Scale Disasters (Board on Health Sciences Policy). His research interests include quantitative criminology, geographical analysis, Bayesian statistics, and statistics in sports. He has a B.S. in statistics from George Washington University and an M.S. in statistics and a joint Ph.D. in statistics and public policy from Carnegie Mellon University.

ERICA R. FISSEL is the research and evaluation manager at ICF, a global advisory and technology services provider. Prior to this, she was assistant professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Central Florida, with a secondary appointment with the Violence Against Women Research Cluster. Fissel’s primary research interests focus on interpersonal cybercrimes, including cyberstalking, intimate partner cyber abuse, and cyberbullying. More specifically, her research explores theoretical correlates and causes of victimization and perpetration, post-victimization experiences,

and public perceptions of cyber-based forms of abuse. She recently received two awards from divisions of the American Society of Criminology, acknowledging her contributions to the fields of victimology and cybercrime with the award for faculty researcher of the year (by the Division of Victimology) and early career researcher (by the Division of Cybercrime). Fissel has a Ph.D. in criminal justice from the University of Cincinnati. Beginning August 6, 2024, she was a paid consultant for the Bureau of Justice Statistics, working with its contractor Westat to review specific draft questionnaire items related to cybercrime concepts for possible inclusion in supplements to the National Crime Victimization Survey.

THOMAS J. HOLT is a professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University and fellow in the cybercrime cluster at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement. His research focuses on cybercrime, cyberterrorism, and the policy response to these issues, with particular emphasis on computer hacking, malicious software infections, data breaches and theft, online illicit market operations, and police preparedness to respond to cybercrime. Holt has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles on these issues in myriad outlets, including British Journal of Criminology, Criminology and Public Policy, Crime and Delinquency, IEEE Security and Privacy, Social Science Computer Review, and Terrorism and Political Violence. His research on under-reported forms of cybercrime and online extremist activity has been funded by the Department of Homeland Security, the National Institute of Justice, and the National Science Foundation, as well as the Australian Institute of Criminology and the Australian Research Council. Holt is a member of the American Society of Criminology and the European Society of Criminology and received the outstanding contribution award from the American Society of Criminology’s Division of Cybercrime. He has a Ph.D. in criminology and criminal justice from the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Beginning August 6, 2024, he was a paid consultant for the Bureau of Justice Statistics, working with its contractor Westat to review specific draft questionnaire items related to cybercrime concepts for possible inclusion in supplements to the National Crime Victimization Survey.

JIN REE LEE is assistant professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University. He is also an affiliated research partner at Michigan State University’s International Interdisciplinary Research Consortium on Cybercrime, George Mason University’s Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy, Boston University’s Center for Cybercrime Investigation and Cybersecurity, and the University of Ontario Institute of Technology’s Digital Life Research Group. Lee’s work has examined various topics around cybercrime and cybersecurity, including law enforcement

competencies and perceptions of online crime; computer hacking and the role of the internet in facilitating all manner of crime and deviance; online illicit market behaviors; ideologically motivated cyberattacks; and online interpersonal violence offending and victimization. His recent work has appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals, including Criminology and Public Policy, American Journal of Criminal Justice, Computers in Human Behavior, Crime and Delinquency, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Terrorism, and Political Violence, and Victims and Offenders. Lee is a recipient of the American Society of Criminology Division of Cybercrime Early Career Award. He has a Ph.D. in criminal justice from Michigan State University. Beginning August 6, 2024, he was a paid consultant for the Bureau of Justice Statistics, working with its contractor Westat to review specific draft questionnaire items related to cybercrime concepts for possible inclusion in supplements to the National Crime Victimization Survey.

DAVID MAIMON is a professor and a next-generation scholar in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies’ Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, and he directs the Evidence-Based Cybersecurity Research Group at Georgia State University. He is also a research associate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Federmann Cyber-Security Research Center. Maimon’s research interests include theories of human behaviors, cyber-enabled and cyber-dependent crimes, and experimental research methods. His current research focuses on computer hacking and the progression of system-trespassing events, computer network vulnerabilities to cyberattacks, and decision-making processes in cyberspace. He also conducts research on intellectual property and cyber fraud. Maimon’s research has been funded by grants from both government and private agencies in the United States and abroad. He received the Young Scholar Award from the White-Collar Crime Research Consortium of the National White-Collar Crime Center for his cybercrime research, the Philip Merrill Presidential Scholars Faculty Mentor Award from the University of Maryland, and the Best Publication Award in Mental Health from the American Sociological Association. Maimon has a Ph.D. in sociology from the Ohio State University.

MARIE-HELEN (MARIA) MARAS is a tenured full professor and the director of the Center for Cybercrime Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She is currently the director and principal investigator of approximately $3,100,000 in awards from the Bureau of Justice Assistance. Previously, Maras served as the director and principal investigator of a recently completed grant project on darknet fentanyl trafficking for the National Institute of Justice ($598,637) and served as a co-principal investigator on two recently completed National Science Foundation grants

($399,000) on improving cyberinfrastructure at the college and enhancing institutional cybersecurity research talent. Her academic background and research cover the topics of cybercrime, cybersecurity, and the impact of digital technology. Maras serves as a subject matter expert and consultant on cybercrime and cyber–organized crime for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. She is the author of numerous peer-reviewed academic journal articles and books, including Cybercriminology (Oxford University Press) and Computer Forensics: Cybercriminals, Laws, and Evidence (Jones and Bartlett), among other books. Prior to her academic post, Maras served in the U.S. Navy, gaining significant experience in security, international investigations, and law enforcement. She has a Ph.D. in law and M.Sc. and M.Phil. degrees in criminology and criminal justice from the University of Oxford. Beginning August 6, 2024, she was a paid consultant for the Bureau of Justice Statistics, working with its contractor Westat to review specific draft questionnaire items related to cybercrime concepts for possible inclusion in supplements to the National Crime Victimization Survey.

MICHAEL C. MILLER is chief of police for the Colleyville Police Department in Texas. Prior to this, he served as assistant chief of police for the Coral Gables Police Department in Florida; in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as a special assistant to the executive assistant director of the Criminal, Cyber, Response and Services Branch; as a special advisor to the assistant director of the Directorate of Intelligence; and as a detailee to the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs as deputy associate director of law enforcement operations. Prior to his positions at the FBI, he worked as a management consulting executive, where he held several positions focusing on public safety and law enforcement, most notably as the global program executive for Accenture’s Immigration, Justice & Public Safety practice. Miller has a B.S. degree in biomedical science from Texas A&M University, where he was named an Outstanding Alumnus from the School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and an M.P.A. from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is currently pursuing an M.S. degree in criminology and criminal justice from Texas Christian University. At the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Miller served on the Panel on Modernizing the Nation’s Crime Statistics.

OJMARRH MITCHELL is a professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine. His research interests center on criminal justice policy, particularly in the areas of drug control, sentencing and corrections, and racial/ethnic fairness in the criminal justice system. Relating to his research on examining and understanding racial/ethnic disparities in the justice system, Mitchell received the Western

Society of Criminology’s W.E.B. Du Bois award and both of the National Institute of Justice’s W.E.B. Du Bois awards. He has served in numerous advisory roles, including on the U.S. Department of Justice’s Science Advisory Board, New York City’s Pretrial Research Advisory Council, Philadelphia’s Pretrial Reform Advisory Council, and the American Society of Criminology’s Executive Board. Mitchell serves as the vice president-elect of the American Society of Criminology and as the editor-in-chief for the journal Criminology and Public Policy. He has a B.A. in sociology from the University of Washington, with both M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in criminology and criminal justice from the University of Maryland.

ALEXIS R. PIQUERO is professor of sociology and criminology in the College of Arts and Sciences and distinguished scholar at the University of Miami. He previously served as director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Piquero is a nationally and internationally recognized criminologist. Throughout his career, he has given congressional testimony on evidence-based crime prevention practices and has provided counsel and support to several local, state, national, and international criminal justice agencies and elected leaders. Piquero’s expertise ranges from criminal careers to criminal justice policy and crime prevention to the intersection of race/ethnicity and crime, with a focus on quantitative methodology. He has published over 500 scholarly articles and several books and is among the most highly cited criminologists in the world. Piquero is a fellow of the American Society of Criminology and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. He received the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences’ Bruce Smith Sr. Award for outstanding contributions to criminal justice, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Division of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology of the American Society of Criminology. Piquero has a Ph.D. in criminology and criminal justice from the University of Maryland, College Park. At the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, he served as member of the Panel on Modernizing the Nation’s Crime Statistics as well as the Panels on Reviewing the Research Portfolio of the National Institute of Justice, Committee on a Prioritized Plan to Implement a Developmental Approach in Juvenile Justice Reform, and the Committee on Assessing the Research Program of the National Institute of Justice.

KATRINA BAUM STONE is a senior program officer for the Committee on National Statistics at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Earlier in her career she worked on the development of the first supplements to the National Crime Victimization Survey to measure identity theft and stalking, as well as revisions to the School Crime Supplement. She has also worked with multiple federal agencies as a contractor or public servant including as government program director for J.D. Power,

an expert appointee at the U.S. Peace Corps, and more than a decade at the U.S. Department of Justice as a senior statistician in the Bureau of Justice Statistics and senior research officer at the National Institute of Justice. Her research focuses on risk and resilience for vulnerable populations such as children, veterans, and survivors of sexual assault, stalking, and human trafficking. She served on the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics and as a founding member on the Institute of Medicine’s Forum on Global Violence Prevention. While at the National Academies, she served as study director for a systematic review on alcohol and health and assisted studies of the 2020 Census as well as measuring sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation. She has a B.A. in law and society from University of California, Santa Barbara; an M.S. in criminal justice from Northeastern University; and a Ph.D. in social welfare from the University of Pennsylvania.

STACEY A. WRIGHT is director of Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) at CyberWA and teaches graduate courses at the University of Albany. Prior to this, she led a Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency cooperative agreement to incorporate state and local government requirements into the National Information Exchange Model Cyber Domain. Wright’s career includes serving as the director of CTI for the Center for Internet Security’s Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center, as a cyber intelligence analyst at the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Albany office, and as an information technology specialist for the Cambridge Public Safety departments. Her industry work includes co-chairing the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Cyber Security Working Group and co-founding the Cyber Classification Compendium, which crosswalks cyber laws between the states and the American, Canadian, and Irish governments and is the foundation of the Canadian cybercrime reporting statistical model. She maintains engaged membership on the IACP’s Cybercrime and Digital Evidence Committee and Criminal Justice Information System Security Policy Modernization Working Group, the National Sheriff’s Association Cybersecurity and Crime Work Group, and IJIS Institute’s Cyber Security Task Force. Wright is a published author, international speaker, and formally trained intelligence analyst. She has an M.B.A. from the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

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