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. Professor McDaniel is a Fellow of IEEE, ACM and AAAS, a recipient of the SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award and SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award, and the director of the NSF Frontier Center for Trustworthy Machine Learning. He also served as the program manager and lead scientist for the Army Research Laboratory's Cyber-Security Collaborative Research Alliance from 2013 to 2018. Patrick's research focuses on a wide range of topics in computer and network security and technical public policy. Prior to joining Wisconsin in 2022, he was the William L. Weiss Professor of Information and Communications Technology and Director of the Institute for Networking and Security Research at Pennsylvania State University.

Research Interests: Dr. McDaniel's research focuses on a wide range of topics in computer and network security and technical public policy, with interests in mobile device security, the security of machine learning, systems, program analysis for security, sustainability and election systems.

Advisory Bio: Dr. McDaniel is an internationally recognized leader in cybersecurity, privacy, and public policy. He is a fellow of IEEE, ACM, and the AAAS. He has served on numerous editorial positions, panels, and boards, including the Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Security, the Privacy Scientific Advisory Board of the Helmholtz Center for Information Security (CISPA), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Internetworked Systems Security Network, the Technical Guideline Development Committee of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, and the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Panel.

Patrick has had a long history of actively shaping national science policy. Most recently, he was the lead author of the “NSF Secure and Trustworthy Computing 2.0 Vision Statement” (envisioning the next 10 years of US scientific investment in cybersecurity in 2023), and “Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity: Opportunities and Challenges” (presenting a plan for national priorities for government investment in the security of AI in 2020) for the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council. Dr. McDaniel was the Editor-in-Chief of both ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT) and recently founded and currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Journal of Transactions on AI Security and Privacy (TAISAP).