Overview
I am a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. I am also the co-director of the Systems and Internet Infrastructure Security Laboratory (SIIS), a research laboratory focused on the study of security in diverse network and computer environments.
My professional life is devoted to the pursuit of novel research in a broad array of areas of computer science (see below). As part of that pursuit I am fortunate to advise a number of exceptionally talented and committed graduate students, as well as participate in many rewarding professional service activities. This website documents many of these activities, but is not even close to exhaustive. If there is a something you wish to know or want more detail on information that is here, feel free to contact me directly.
The pages linked from the menu at the left cover broadly my research, teaching, and personal activities. Those wishing to speak to me in a professional capacity should contact me via email. Email is probably the most reliable way of contacting me (warning, responses may take a couple of days due to travel and other factors). My full contact information is:
Note: I have been involved with the recent negotiation of copyright policy with IEEE. Here is a blog on the result of that effort.|
Contact: Professor Patrick McDaniel Computer Science and Engineering Pennsylvania State University 360 A IST Building University Park, PA 16802 Phone: (814) 863-3599 Email: mcdaniel@cse.psu.edu |
Research interests: Network, Internet, telecommunications, and systems security, with
interests in language-based security, voting systems, provenance,
secure storage, cell phone operating systems and privacy.
Recent Teaching:
CSE543 -- Computer and Network Security (Fall 2011) CSE 598E -- Critical Infrastructure Security (Fall 2011) CSE545 -- Advanced Network Security (Spring 2011) |
Students
Past PhD Students- Thomas Moyer (2011), now Technical Staff Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Lincoln Labs
- William Enck (2011), now Assistant Professor North Carolina State University
- Kevin Butler (2010), now Assistant Professor University of Oregon
- Machigar Ongtang (2010), now Assistant Professor Dhurakij Pundit University
- Patrick Traynor (2008), now Assistant Professor Georgia Institute of Technology
- Fr. Boniface Hicks (2007), now Assistant Professor St. Vincent College
- Steve McLaughlin (2013), Devin Pohly (2014), Damien Octeau (2014), Matthew Dering (2016)
Current Professional Activities
Editorial Activities- Editor-in-chief, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), September 2007-present.
- Associate editor, ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), June 2007-present.
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC). August 2008-present.
- Area Editor-Secure Systems, IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine. January 2009-present.
- Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Fall 2012.
- Program Committee, 2012 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
- Program Committee, 2012 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)
- Program Committee, 2012 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)
- Program Committee, 2012 Financial Cryptography
- Program Committee, 2012 ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom)
- Program Committee, 2012 ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys)
- Program Committee, 2012 ACM Annual Digital Forensics Conference
- Program Committee, 2012 Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec)
- Program Committee, 2012 USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec)
Professional Miscellanea/Highlights
- I am a Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at Pennsylvania State University.
- I am the co-director of the Systems and Internet Infrastructure Security Laboratory.
- I am an adjunct professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University.
- I will become the Vice-Chair of the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Security and Privacy in Fall of 2011.
- I was the co-chair of the 2007 and 2008 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.
- I was the principal investigator of the academic Everest team which analyized the voting eqiupment used in Ohio. The report can be retrieved here, and the team's commentary here.
- I was the chair of the 2005 USENIX Security Symposium.
- I am an alumnus of the Secure Systems Group at AT&T Research.
- I received my PhD from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Michigan in December of 2001.
- As a doctoral student, I received the NASA, Kennedy Space Center Fellowship.
- My Erdös number is 3 (Paul Erdös--Fan Chung--William Aiello--Me).
- I have an amateur radio license and my call letters are KC2LNP.
- I started batch number 1341 at the Guinness factory in Dublin, Ireland on 22nd of June, 2007.
I also keep a personal blog where I discuss a number of topics of interest that relate to my life within and outside of the academy.