M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from the College of William and Mary (1986, 1990 respectively); computer scientist at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD; before joining NIST, Voas was an entrepreneur and co-founded Cigital; he has served as the IEEE Reliability Society President (2003-2005, 2009-2010), and serves as an IEEE Director (2011-2012); Fellow of the IEEE and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); current research interests include vetting mobile app software, how apps depend on clouds, software certification ethics, and Internet of Things