Florence D. Hudson is Founder & CEO of FDHint LLC, a global advanced technology and diversity & inclusion consulting firm,  and Executive Director and Principal Investigator for the US NSF, NIH and Department of Transportation funded Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub and the COVID Information Commons at Columbia University. She Chairs the IEEE Standards Working Group on Clinical Internet of Things Data and Device Interoperability with TIPPSS (Trust, Identity, Privacy, Protection, Safety and Security) and is on the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Standards Committee.  She is a former IBM Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Internet2 Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer, Special Advisor for the NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, and aerospace engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab and Grumman Aerospace Corporation.  She is Editor in Chief for two Springer books on Women Securing the Future with TIPPSS for IoT and Connected Healthcare focusing on trust, identity, privacy, protection, safety and security. She is also a published author with IEEE, Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor & Francis and College Publications. She is an experienced Board Director (NASDAQ: IEC) and Trustee, currently serving on multiple academic and nonprofit Boards. She earned her Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering degree from Princeton University, and executive education certificates from Harvard Business School and Columbia University.

Publications.

Hudson FD, Author; Douville S, Editor, Advanced Health Technology: Managing Risk While Tackling Barriers to Rapid Acceleration #1 New Release, Taylor & Francis; 2023.

Hudson FD, editor. Women Securing the Future with TIPPSS for Connected Healthcare [Internet] 1 ed. Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland AG; 2022. 254p. Available from: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-93592-4.

Hudson FD, Author; Douville S, Editor, Mobile Medicine: Overcoming People, Culture, & Governance. Taylor & Francis; 2021.

Hudson FD, Conway E, Mares CD, Pan Q, Zhao F, Danneman B, Grama J, Milford K, Herrington K, Short H, Florio L, Johnson A, Lee M, Tronson S, Caudill G, Powers E, Mukhopadhyay S. Hudson FD, editor. Women Securing the Future with TIPPSS for IoT [Internet] 1 ed. Springer Nature Switzerland AG: Springer International Publishing; 2019. 190p. Available from: https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783030157043#aboutBook.

Hudson F, Clark C. Wearables and Medical Interoperability: The Evolving Frontier. IEEE Computer. 2018 October; 51(9):86-90. doi: 10.1109/MC.2018.3620987.

Hudson FD. Enabling Trust and Security: TIPPSS for IoT. IEEE IT Professional. 2018 March; 20(2):15-18. doi: 10.1109/MITP.2018.021921646.

Hudson F, Nichols E. The Internet of Things and Cognitive Computing. In: Handbook of Statistics [Internet] Elsevier; 2016. 341-373p. Available from: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0169716116300505