Patrick McDaniel

Dr. Patrick McDaniel is the William L. Weiss Professor of Information and Communications Technology in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a fellow of IEEE, ACM, and the AAAS. He is also the Director of the Institute for Networking and Security Research (INSR), a research institute focused on the study of networking and security in computing environments. Further, he is the director of The Center for Trustworthy Machine Learning (CTML), which is a Frontier project in Secure & Trustworthy Computing supported by the National Science Foundation. The focus of the Center is to develop a rigorous understanding of the vulnerabilities inherent to machine learning, and to develop the tools, metrics, and methods to mitigate them.

His professional life is devoted to the pursuit of novel research in a broad array of areas of computer science. His research focuses on a wide range of topics in computer and network security and technical public policy, with particular interests in mobile device security, adversarial machine learning, systems security, program analysis, and the integrity and security of election systems.