Michael Reiter
Adjunct Professor – ECE
Carnegie Mellon, 2001 –
| Contact Information | |
|---|---|
| Department | Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| reiter@unc.edu | |
| Website | http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~reiter/ |
Research Interests
My research interests lie in building distributed computing systems that operate effectively despite the efforts of intelligent adversaries. The adversary's goal may be to manipulate the behavior of the system, to make the system unavailable, or to expose information that should remain secret. The adversary may even be in control of some components of the system, due to capturing them physically or penetrating them electronically. My goal is to develop new technologies in computer security, applied cryptography, and survivable distributed computing to ensure correct operation of a system in the face of such attacks. My interests range from the small (e.g., preventing an attacker from extracting secret information from a mobile device he has captured) to the very large, such as national voting systems and Internet survivability. Examples of current and past research projects can be found on my personal home page.
In the News
- ECE Faculty Instruct Information Assurance Capacity Building Program
- Carnegie Mellon Researchers Are Part of New NSF Center Studying Cybersecurity and Trustworthy Computing
- Borrowing from Botany to Fix the Net
- Carnegie Mellon Researchers Tap Biology To Fend Off Computer Worms, Virus Attacks
- CMU Team Receives $7.5 Million from the NSF for a High Speed Telecommunications Network
- High School Girls Race Through Engineering Workshop
- Center for Computer and Communications Security Awarded $35.5 Million Grant from Department of Defense
Research Area
Computer Systems
Keywords
Computer security, distributed computing, applied cryptography
Education
PhD, 1993
Computer Science
Cornell University
MS, 1991
Computer Science
Cornell University
BS, 1989
Mathematical Sciences
University of North Carolina