Robert Marmorstein is an assistant professor of computer science with doctorate and masters degrees from William and Mary and a bachelor of arts from Washington and Lee University. He is a member of the Virginia Academy of Sciences, Usenix, SAGE, and the Association for Computing Machinery. His primary research interests are in the areas of computer security, computer science education, and systems programming. He is a frequent contributor to open source projects, especially the KDE desktop environment and is the author of ITVal, a firewall testing tool.