Workshop on Binary Analysis Research (BAR) 2026 Program

Speaker's Biography: Perri Adams is a fellow at Dartmouth’s Institute for Security Technology Studies and a former Special Assistant to the Director at DARPA, where she advised on next-generation AI and cybersecurity technologies across the U.S. government. She previously served as a DARPA Program Manager in the Information Innovation Office, where she created the AI Cyber Challenge. Ms. Adams is a frequent speaker and published author on cyber and technology policy, an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS, and a former organizer of the DEFCON Capture the Flag competition.

Speaker's Biography: Marion Marschalek is an independent security consultant and trainer with her consulting company Hack & Cheese. Prior to that she held senior positions at AWS and Intel, and different roles in the threat detection industry, as a malware reverse engineer and incident responder. Marschalek is a frequent speaker at major security conferences, including Black Hat, Defcon, HITB, RSA, and SyScan, among others. She used to teach reverse engineering classes at University of Applied Sciences St. Poelten, from where she graduated in 2011 with a Master's Degree in Information Security.

In 2015, she started a hacker bootcamp for women titled BlackHoodie, which established itself as a global initiative to attract more diverse talent to the security industry. In her spare time, she enjoys long-distance running.