Biography

Patrick McDaniel is the Tsun-Ming Shih Professor of Computer Sciences in the School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is a Fellow of IEEE, ACM, and AAAS; a recipient of the SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award and the SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award; and serves as Director of the NSF Frontier Center for Trustworthy Machine Learning, a multi-institutional research center focused on foundational research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and security. He previously served as Program Manager and Lead Scientist for the U.S. Army Research Laboratory’s Cyber-Security Collaborative Research Alliance (2013–2018), coordinating a large multi-university research program, and regularly provides scientific leadership through keynote lectures, advisory roles, and service to government agencies and international research organizations. His research has been recognized with multiple test-of-time awards from major venues, including USENIX OSDI (computer systems), ACM PLDI (programming languages), ACM/IEEE ICSE (software engineering), and ACSAC (security).

Research Interests: Dr. McDaniel’s research examines the security and resilience of large-scale digital systems, with emphasis on AI security, systems security, mobile device security, program-analysis techniques for vulnerability discovery, sustainability, and election systems security.