Dr. Avani Wildani (neuron) is a postdoctoral fellow at the Salk Institute, where she is applying her background in distributed systems to exploring the security profile of computational neurobiology. Her Ph.D. work included finding correlated disk activity by analyzing block I/O traces collected through tapping the SATA bus. She believes that the best way of understanding how a system is designed is to understand the attacks it can and cannot defend against. She is usually found with Toool, tinkering with something small and sharp.