Patrick McDaniel
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Expert on topics in computer and network security and technical public policy.
Patrick McDaniel, Tsun-Ming Shih Professor of Computer Sciences School of Computer, Data and Information Sciences Work: 608-262-7950 — Home and cell phones available upon request mcdaniel@cs.wisc.edu Home page Twitter: @pdmcdan
Topics
- Expert on areas of computer security, including malware, adversaries, and preventative and reactive security software, techniques and systems.
- An expert on the safety and security of AI, with interest both in technology and public policy.
- Expert on the technology for achieving sustainability, particular systems and data for validating sustainable processes.
- Author of the Everest Report evaluating the security of electronic voting systems in Ohio.
Achievements
- Director of the the Center for Trustworthy Machine Learning (CTML), an $10M NSF funded Frontier project.
- Fellow of the AAAS (science), IEEE (engineering), and ACM (computer science).
- Past member of the Technical Guideline committee of the Election Assistance Commission (AEC).
- Program Manager (PM) and lead scientist for the $50M Cyber Security (CS) Collaborative Research Alliance (CRA) from 2013-2018.