Biography

Patrick McDaniel is the inaugural Associate Dean for Research in the College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence and the Tsun-Ming Shih Professor of Computer 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. He serves as Director of the NSF Frontier Center for Trustworthy Machine Learning, a multi-institutional research center advancing foundational research at the intersection of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and trustworthy computing. Professor McDaniel regularly provides scientific leadership through lectures, advisory roles, and service to government agencies, industry, and international research organizations. His research has been recognized with several test-of-time awards from leading conferences, including USENIX OSDI (computer systems), ACM PLDI (programming languages), ACM/IEEE ICSE (software engineering), ACSAC (computer security), and IEEE Euro-S&P (security and privacy).

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.