Josh Brunty is a professor of digital forensics at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. He is a member of the Digital Evidence Subcommittee of the NIST Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science.[1]
Career
Prior to joining Marshall University in 2012, Brunty spent several years as a Digital Forensics Examiner and Laboratory Technical Leader in various laboratories, as well as serving on several federal and state-level cyber-crime task forces and panels. [2]
Brunty's early research as a graduate student involved the automatic verification and validation of tools. These validation practices are commonplace in many modern digital forensic tools and lab practices.[3]
Brunty is the author of books, book chapters, and journal publications in the field of digital forensics, mobile device forensics, and social media investigation.[4] His research interests include: social media forensics, mobile device exploitation and forensics, and image and video forensics.[5] He is a frequent speaker at international and national digital forensic and security conferences, and guest lectures at various universities throughout the world.