Chris Valasek
Director of Security Engineering, Cruise
Chris Valasek is the Director of Security Engineering at Cruise where he oversees vehicle, infrastructure, and application security. Valasek is widely recognized for his work in the automotive security arena and was lauded for the remote compromise of a 2014 Jeep Cherokee, whereby he and his research partner obtained physical control of the vehicle, resulting in a 1.4M vehicle recall. He also has an extensive background in reverse engineering and exploitation research. Chris has a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh.
