Dr. Edward Griffor is a senior research scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and associate director for Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) at NIST. Dr. Griffor is an established research mathematician and engineer with over two decades of experience in the US, Europe and South America, together with advanced development leadership in the industry over the last decade, providing standards and paradigms of measurement to support the conception, realization and assurance of cyber-physical systems critical for transportation, energy and medicine.