A Brown University computer science professor has been selected to spend the current academic year in Washington advising the U.S. State Department on cybersecurity and other science and technology issues.

John E. Savage, a professor who helped found Brown’s Department of Computer Science, was named one of this year’s seven Jefferson Science Fellows. The six-year-old program that brings tenured American academic scientists and engineers to the nation’s capital to advise either the State Department or the U.S. Agency for International Development.