BIO : Isaac Porche is a technologist who has been a principal investigator for numerous projects on network and communication technology, IT acquisition, cloud computing, cyber security, modeling and simulation, and computer network defense. He is a member of the
Army Science Board and a judge for the Automotive News PACE Award. He has been at
RAND since 1998. Past employment was in the automotive and transportation sector where he studied the security of in-vehicle networks.
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy , University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. August, 1998.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Systems Division.
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering , University of California, Berkeley. May, 1992.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Certificate in Intelligent Transportation Studies , University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI., 1996.
EXPERIENCE
Senior Engineer , RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1998 – present
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Principal investigator for Army, Navy, DHS, and OSD studies on IT and Cyber
 Economic, environmental, & technical feasibility studies of electric (fuel cell & battery) propulsion
Transportation Research Engineer , Environmental Research Institute of Michigan.
Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1995-1997.
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Developed assessment of future transportation infrastructure needs and research projects.
Project Engineer , General Motors Electric Vehicles, Troy, Michigan, 1990 – 1995.
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Designed, developed, integrated shifter & secure electronic ignition system on EV1 Electric Vehicle.
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Evaluated in-vehicle network protocols (CAN Bus, J1850 standards, GM token slot approach)
RAND Silver and Bronze Award (2011, 2008), Finalist for best paper (2004 ICCRTS
Conference), Finalist for best paper (2005 MORS symposium), Featured in the Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette “Thinkers” series (2005) - http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05059/464017.stm
Porche et al., A Cyberworm that Knows No Boundaries , RAND OP-342, Dec., 2011, http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP342.html
Porche, Isaac, “Stuxnet is the World’s Problem”, Op-ed, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ,
2011, http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/op-eds/stuxnet-the-worlds-problem
Porche et al., Finding Services for an Open Architecture , RAND MG-1071-Navy, June,
2011, http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1071.html
Porche et al., Navy Network Dependability: Models, Metrics, and Tools , RAND MG-1003-
Navy, August 2010, http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1003.html
Lloyd Dixon, Isaac Porche, Jonathan Kulick, Driving Emissions to Zero: Are the Benefits of
California's Zero Emission Vehicle Program Worth the Costs?
, RAND MR-1578,
2002, at http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1578/index.html
Porche et al., “Real-Time Task Manager for Communications and Control in Multi-Car
Platoons,” SAE Intelligent Vehicles Conference, Detroit, Michigan, June 1992.
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