Krishna Sampigethaya is an Associate Technical Fellow at The Boeing Company. He is currently working on aviation cyber security, transportation cyber-physical systems (CPS), and the NextGen at the Boeing Research & Technology division. He received Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Network Security Lab at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA.

Dr. Sampigethaya is a member of the AIAA, IEEE, NCOIC (Aviation IPT and Cyber Security IPT), and SAE. He is the founding chair for the SAE aviation cyber security technical committee since 2009. He was one of the initiators of the first NITRD/NSF sponsored workshop on Transportation CPS (2008), co-organizer of the second Army Research Office CPS security workshop (2009), and lead organizer of the first IEEE/SAE Transportation Cyber Security Symposium in Montreal (2013). Dr. Sampigethaya introduced aviation cyber security tracks at the SAE AeroTech (2009-present), AIAA Infotech@Aerospace (2010-present), and IEEE Aerospace (2011-present) and is also organizing cyber security related sessions at IEEE/AIAA co-sponsored aerospace conferences, including DASC (2011-present) and ICNS (2012-present). He co-edited the January 2012 Proceedings of the IEEE special issue on CPS and serves as the general co-chair for IEEE D-SPAN (2012-present). He is co-author for the upcoming community reports sponsored by NSF on "Cloud Computing for CPS" and "Transportation CPS" topics (2014).

He has authored papers over 47 research publications (with 747 citations on Dec. 2013 as per Google Scholar), including two recognized with Best Paper of Session awards at the 2010 and 2012 AIAA/IEEE DASC. He has received the 2013 American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin (ASEI) Engineer of the Year Award and the 2013 ASEI CERP Corporate Engineering Excellence Award. He has delivered over 9 keynotes and a plenary talk on aviation CPS and cyber-physical security. He holds one US patent and has filed over 17 US patent applications.