Brian leads the Digital Forensics team at Basis Technology to design and develop products and custom systems. He is the author of the book “File System Forensic Analysis” and developer of several open source digital forensic analysis tools, including The Sleuth Kit and the Autopsy Forensic Browser. Brian has a Ph.D. in computer science from Purdue University and worked previously for @stake as a research scientist and the technical lead for their digital forensic labs response team. Brian is on the committees of many conferences, workshops and technical working groups.