Keith Marzullo
Director, National Coordination Office (NCO)
Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program
(June 2015 – July 2016)
Dr. Marzullo joined NITRD NCO from the National Science Foundation (NSF), where he served as the Division Director for the Computer and Network Systems (CNS) Division in the Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Directorate. He also served as Co- Chair of the NITRD Cybersecurity and Cyber Physical Systems R&D Senior Steering Groups.
Prior to joining NSF, Dr. Marzullo was a faculty member at the University of California, San Diego’s Computer Science and Engineering Department, and served as the Department Chair from 2006-2010.
Dr. Marzullo received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, where he developed the Xerox Research Internet Clock Synchronization protocol, one of the first practical fault-tolerant protocols for keeping widely-distributed clocks synchronized with each other.