10 Facts About Barry Leiba

Barry Leiba was born on 1957 and is a computer scientist and software researcher.

Barry Leiba retired from IBM's Thomas J Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, New York in February 2009, and now works for FutureWei Technologies as a Director of Internet Standards.

Barry Leiba's work has focused for many years on electronic mail and anti-spam technology, on mobile computing and the Internet of things, and on Internet standards.

Barry Leiba was part of the team that developed the SpamGuru anti-spam engine at IBM Research.

Barry Leiba has published a number of papers at the Collaboration, Electronic messaging, Anti-Abuse and Spam Conference, and was a program chair for the conference in 2008 and 2010.

Barry Leiba has been involved with the Internet Engineering Task Force since the mid-1990s, working on e-mail-related standards, including IMAP, ACAP, updates to SMTP and the Internet message format, lemonade, the Sieve e-mail filtering language, internationalization in general and e-mail address internationalization in particular, and DKIM.

Barry Leiba has chaired a number of working groups, including DKIM, OAUTH, CBOR, and DMARC, and served on the Internet Architecture Board from 2007 to 2009.

Barry Leiba served on the Internet Engineering Steering Group as Applications Area Director from 2012 to 2016 and as Applications and Real-Time Area Director from 2019 to 2021, and is the IETF liaison to the Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group.

Barry Leiba was appointed to the ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee in 2018.

Barry Leiba has worked on IBM Research projects involving context awareness, mobile and distributed computing, and computer security and access controls.