Tal Garfinkel is a researcher whose work focuses on systems and security. He is the author of 31 papers, and 11 patents, and his work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the 2019 NDSS test-of-time award, for the development of virtual machine introspection, and the 2022 IEEE Cybersecurity Practice Award. Tal received his Ph.D ('10), from Stanford University. And spent nearly a decade with VMware during and after his PhD.