Joe Grand is an electrical engineer and hardware hacker. He runs Grand Idea Studio (www.grandideastudio.com) and specializes in the design of consumer products and hobbyist embedded systems. Formerly known as Kingpin, Joe was a member of the legendary hacker group L0pht Heavy Industries. He has spent more than a decade discovering security flaws in hardware devices and teaching hardware hacking to engineers and computer security researchers. Joe was also a co-host of Discovery Channel's Prototype This and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from Boston University
