Case 1:17-cv-02989-AT Document 579 Filed 08/15/19 Page 38 of 153 2009-2015. Dr. Appel has also served as both the Director of Undergraduate Studies and Director of Graduate Studies and as Editor in Chief of ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, the leading journal in his field, and he is a fellow in the Association for Computing Machinery, the leading scientific and professional society in Computer Science. In 2017, Dr. Appel was appointed by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine to serve on the Consensus Committee on the Future of Voting, inclusive of computer scientists, election officials, and other subject matter experts and was chaired by two university presidents, one a computer scientist and one a law professor.33 Dr. Appel has also testified on election technology before the U.S. House of Representatives and the New Jersey legislature as well as in other proceedings. (Doc. 510-2.) The National Academies of Sciences Report issued in September 2018, in which Dr. Appel participated, concerning the integrity of voting systems and the risks associated with digital technology, determined: The NASEM (or NAS, for short) was established by Congress in 1863 to provide independent scientific and technical advice to the Government. The NAS study committee was charged with: 1) documenting the current state of technology, standards and resources for voting technologies; 2) examining the challenges arising out of the 2016 federal election; 3) evaluating advances in current and upcoming technology that can improve voting; and 4) providing recommendations to make voting easier, accessible, reliable, and verifiable. (Doc. 285-1, Ex. 1 at 4.) The committee members, including Dr. Appel met over 16 months and heard testimony from experts and election administrators. After the study passed a separate independent peer review, it was released by the National Academies of Sciences in September 2018 under the title Securing the Vote: Protecting American Democracy. As noted by Dr. DeMillo in his supplemental declaration in 2018, “a consensus report of the NAS . . . represents the highest authority that the U.S. Government can rely upon when it seeks to be advised on matters of science, technology and engineering.” (Doc. 285-1 ¶¶ 8, 9.) 33 38