Patrick Drew McDaniel
Tsun-Ming Shih Professor of Computer Sciences
Office : University of Wisconin-Madison, School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences
Room 7387, 1210 W. Dayton St. Madison, WI 53706 (608) 263-1008
email: mcdaniel@cs.wisc.edu
Homepage: https://patrickmcdaniel.org/
Academic and Research Appointments
Tsun-Ming Shih Professor of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin August 2022-Present
William L. Weiss Professor of Information and Communications Technology, Pennsylvania State
University
University Park, Pennsylvania July 2017-August 2022
Distinguished Professor, Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pennsylvania January 2016-2017
Professor, Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pennsylvania May 2011-December 2015
Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pennsylvania July 2007-May 2011
Hartz Family Career Development Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pennsylvania August 2004-June 2007
Adjunct Professor, Stern School of Business, New York University
New York, NY, January 2003-2009
Senior Research Staff Member, AT&T Labs - Research
Florham Park, NJ, September 2001-August 2004
Select Research Leadership Appointments
Director, National Science Foundation, Center for Trustworthy Machine Learning, 2018-present
Participants: Penn State, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, Univ. of Wisconsin, Univ. of Virginia
Director, Institute for Networking and Security Research, 2016-2022
College of Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
Chair, IEEE Technical Committee on Security and Privacy, January 2014-January 2016
Program Manager, Cyber-Security Collaborative Research Alliance (CRA), 2013-2018
College of Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
Vice-Chair, IEEE Technical Committee on Security and Privacy, January 2012-December 2014
Founder and Co-Director, Systems and Internet Infrastructure Laboratory, 2004-2022
College of Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
Education
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, October 2001
Ball State University, M.S., Computer Science, June 1991
Ohio University, B.S., Computer Science, August 1989
Professional Affiliations
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Fellow
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Fellow
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Fellow
USENIX Advanced Computing Systems Association (USENIX)
Student Advising
Past PhD Students
Ryan Sheatsley, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Spring 2024, now
Post-doc
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Z. Berkay Celik, Pennsylvania State University,
Spring 2019, now
Assistant Professor
Purdue University
Nicolas Papernot, Pennsylvania State University,
Spring 2018, now
Assistant Professor
University of Toronto
Wenhui Hu, Pennsylvania State University,
Fall 2016, now
Senior Member of Technical Staff
Oracle
Devin Pohly, Pennsylvania State University,
Spring 2016, now
Assistant Professor
Wheaton College
Damien Octeau, Pennsylvania State University,
Summer 2014, now
Software Engineer in Security
Google
Steve McLaughlin, Pennsylvania State University,
Spring 2014, now
Senior Software Engineer
Samsung Research America
Thomas Moyer, Pennsylvania State University,
Summer 2011, now
Assistant Professor
University of North Carolina-Charlotte
William Enck, Pennsylvania State University,
Spring 2011, now
Professor
North Carolina State University
Kevin Butler, Pennsylvania State University,
Summer 2010, now
Professor
University of Florida
Machigar Ongtang, Pennsylvania State University,
Summer 2010, now
Assistant Professor
Dhurakij Pundit University
Patrick Traynor, co-advisor, Pennsylvania State University,
Spring 2008, now
John and Mary Lou Dasberg Preeminent Chair, Professor
University of Florida
Fr. Boniface Hicks, Pennsylvania State University,
Fall 2007, now
Assistant Professor
St. Vincent College
Current PhD Students
Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand, University of Wisconsin,
Spring 2028Kyle Domico, University of Wisconsin,
Spring 2028Kunyang Li, University of Wisconsin,
Spring 2027Rachel King, University of Wisconsin,
Spring 2027Yohan Beugin, University of Wisconsin,
Spring 2026Blaine Hoak, University of Wisconsin,
Spring 2026Quinn Burke, University of Wisconsin,
Spring 2026Eric Pauley, University of Wisconsin,
Spring 2025
Past Masters Students
Blaine Hoak, Pennsylvania State University,
Summer 2022Rachel King, Pennsylvania State University,
Summer 2022Alban Heon, Pennsylvania State University,
Summer 2022Yohan Beugin, Pennsylvania State University,
Spring 2021Ahmed Abdou, Pennsylvania State University,
Spring 2021Adrien Cosson, Pennsylvania State University,
Summer 2020Bolor Zolbayar, Pennsylvania State University,
Summer 2020Alejandro Andrade, Pennsylvania State University,
Summer 2020Quinn Burke, Pennsylvania State University,
Spring 2020Eric Pauley, Pennsylvania State University,
Spring 2020Sushrut Shringarputal, Pennsylvania State University,
Fall 2019Raquel Alvarez, Pennsylvania State University,
Spring 2019Valentin Vie, Pennsylvania State University,
Spring 2019Ryan Sheatsley, Pennsylvania State University,
Fall 2018Eric Kilmer, Pennsylvania State University,
Spring 2016Nathan Lagerman, Pennsylvania State University,
Spring 2016Matthew Dering, Pennsylvania State University,
Spring 2014Phil Koshy, M.S. Pennsylvania State University,
Fall 2013Diana Koshy, M.S. Pennsylvania State University,
Fall 2013Steve McLaughlin, M.S. Pennsylvania State University,
Spring 2011Sergei Miadzvezhanka, M.S. Pennsylvania State University,
Spring 2011Adam Delozier, M.S. Pennsylvania State University,
Spring 2011Juliet Uhlott, M.Eng. Pennsylvania State University,
Fall 2010Damien Octeau, M.S. Pennsylvania State University,
Spring 2010Thomas Moyer, M.S. Pennsylvania State University,
Spring 2009Luke St. Clair, M.S. Pennsylvania State University,
Summer 2008Lisa Johansen, M.S. Pennsylvania State University,
Spring 2008Sunam Ryu, M.S. Pennsylvania State University,
Spring 2007Dhananjay Bapat, M.S. Pennsylvania State University (Electrical Engineering),
Fall 2006Jennifer Plasterr, M.Eng. Pennsylvania State University,
Summer 2006Adam Kerr, M.Eng. Pennsylvania State University,
Fall 2006William Enck, M.S. Pennsylvania State University,
Spring 2006Wesam Lootah, M.S. Pennsylvania State University,
Spring 2006Jon Hansford, M.Eng. Pennsylvania State University,
Fall 2005John van Bremer, M.Eng. Pennsylvania State University,
Spring 2005
Past Post-Docs
Vaibhav Rastogi, Northwestern University,
Robert Walls, University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
Teaching
University of Wisconsin-Madison, College of Letters and Science
CompSci 642 - Intro to Information Security : Fall 2023, Fall 2024
CompSci 839 - Emerging Trends in Systems Security and Privacy : Spring 2025
Pennsylvania State University, College of Engineering
CMPSC311 - Introduction to Systems Programming : Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Summer 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021
CMPSC443 - Introduction to Computer and Network Security : Spring 2006, Spring 2009, Fall 2017, Fall 2018
CSE543 - Computer and Network Security : Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2011, Fall 2014
CSE544 - Advanced System Security : Spring 2005, Spring 2007
CSE545 - Advanced Network Security : Spring 2006, Spring 2008, Spring 2011
CSE597g - Principles, Analysis, and Applications of Computer Security : Fall 2015
Security and Privacy of Machine Learning : Fall 2016
Advanced Topics in the Security and Privacy of Machine Learning : Spring 2017
CSE598 - Cell Phone Operating Systems : Spring 2009
CSE598i - Web 2.0 Security : Spring 2010
CSE598d - Topics in Applied Systems Security : Fall 2010
CSE598e - Critical Infrastructure Security : Fall 2011
CSE 597 -- Emerging Trends in Computer Security : Fall 2021
CMPSC297 -- Introduction to C Programming in UNIX : Fall 2021
New York University, Stern School of Business
B20.3157 Computer and Network Security : Spring 2003, Summer 2004, Summer 2005
B20.3156 - Online Privacy : Spring 2003, Summer 2004
Collaborators (last 4 years, alphabetical)
Bolor-Erdene Zolbayar ,
Ahmed Abdou,
Stefan Achleitner,
Hidayet Aksu,
Leonardo Babun,
Paul Barford,
Novella Bartolini,
Yohan Beugin,
Hoak, Blaine,
Christopher Burchard,
Quinn Burke,
Z. Berkay Celik,
Kamalika Chaudhuri,
Muhao Chen,
Adrien Cosson,
Kyle Denney,
Genannt Dohmann,
Kyle Domico,
Matthew Durbin,
Pauley, Eric,
David Evans,
Jean-Charles {Noirot Ferrand},
Felix Freiling,
Anshul Gandhi,
Rahul George,
Kanad Ghose,
Kartik Gopalan,
Ryan Guide,
Amy Hasan,
Ting He,
Blaine Hoak,
Thorsten Holz,
Junjie Hu,
Syed Rafiul Hussain,
Alban Héon,
Trent Jaeger,
Somesh Jha,
Rachel King,
Engin Kirda,
Farinaz Koushanfar,
Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy,
Daniel E. Krych,
Domico, Kyle,
Thomas La Porta,
Dongyoon Lee,
Jiazhao Li,
Yiquan Li,
Bo Li,
Yixuan Li,
Kunyang Li,
Azaree Lintereur,
Zhenhua Liu,
David Yu Liu,
David Liu,
Andrea Matwyshyn,
Patrick McDaniel,
Patrick Mcdaniel,
Fidan Mehmeti,
Shuai Mu,
Yujin Nam,
Namitha Nambiar,
Michael Norris,
Kyle Ostrowski,
Nicolas Papernot,
McDaniel, Patrick,
Eric Pauley,
Jonathan Petit,
Jingyuan Qi,
Xiangyu Qi,
Burke, Quinn,
Konrad Rieck,
Tajana Rosing,
Sheatsley, Ryan,
Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi,
Alejandro Andrade Salazar,
Ryan Sheatsley,
Tyler Shipp,
Amit Kumar Sikder,
Anand Sivasubramaniam,
Wenjia Song,
Indra Spiecker,
Michael Swift,
Gang Tan,
Sanchal Thakkar,
Selcuk Uluagac,
Prasanna Venkatesh,
Gunjan Verma,
Bimal Viswanath,
Jiongxiao Wang,
Michael J. Weisman,
Chaowei Xiao,
Ya Xiao,
Tian Xie,
Danfeng Yao,
Beugin, Yohan,
Mingli Yu,
Erez Zadok,
Danfeng Zhang,
Shulin Zhao,
Minxuan Zhou,
Shitong Zhu,
Sencun Zhu,
Bolor-Erdene Zolbayarn
Research Support
co-PI,
MURI: Cohesive and Robust Human-Bot Cybersecurity Teams,
Army Research Office, $
6,000,0000 (PSU award $
739,527)
,
07/01/2021-
06/30/2026, Collaborators:
Many.
co-PI,
SaTC: CORE: Small: Adversarial Network Reconnaissance in Software Defined Networking,
NSF (CNS), $
500,000 (PSU award $
500,000)
,
1/1/2020-
12/31/2022, Collaborators:
He (Penn State).
PI,
CNS Core: Medium: Automated IoT Safety and Security Analysis and Synthesis,
NSF (CNS), $
272,033 (PSU award $
272,033)
,
6/25/2019-
6/24/2022, Collaborators:
Tan (Penn State).
PI,
Mapping Black-Box Attack Metrics and Parameter Spaces in Machine Learning,
US Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center, $
436,677 (PSU award $
436,677)
,
6/25/2019-
6/24/2022, Collaborators:
(single PI).
PI,
SaTC CORE: Frontier: Collaborative: End-to-End Trustworthiness of Machine-Learning Systems,
NSF (CNS), $
9,649,366 (PSU award $
2,044,550)
,
8/15/2018-
3/31/2023, Collaborators:
Boneh (Stanford), Chaudhuri (UCSD), Evans (Virginia), Jha (Wisconsin), Liang (Stanford), Song (Berkeley).
PI,
2017 SaTC PI Meeting,
NSF (CNS), $
99,999 (PSU award $
50,230)
,
8/15/2016-
3/31/2017, Collaborators:
Antonakakis (GaTech), Mason (UIUC).
PI,
TWC: Medium: Collaborative: Scaling and Prioritizing Market-Sized Application Analysis,
NSF (CNS), $
1,147,213 (PSU award $
547,213)
,
7/01/2016-
6/30/2020, Collaborators:
Jha (Wisconsin).
PI,
Student Travel Support for Symposium on Security and Privacy 2014,
Army Research Office, $
10,000 (PSU award $
10,000)
,
5/1/14-
5/1/15.
PI,
Models for Enabling Continuous Reconfigurability of Secure Missions (MACRO) Cyber-Security Collaborative
Research Alliance (CRA),
Army Research Laboratory, $
24.1 million (\$48.2 million with renewal at 12/17),
9/20/2013-
9/19/2023 (renewed at 5 years), Collaborators:
PSU, Carnegie Mellon, Indiana, UC Davis, UC Riverside, ARL, CERDEC.
PI,
Google Faculty Research Award, Plotting a Map of Android Inter-App Communication,
Google, $
50,000,
3/1/2012-
2/28/2013, Collaborators:
PSU (McDaniel), TU Darmstadt (Bodden), University of Luxembourg (Traon), .
PI,
Battelle BGP Security Study (Phase 2),
Battelle, $
102,815,
10/1/2012-
9/30/2013, Collaborators:
PSU (McDaniel), Oregon (Butler).
PI,
TWC: Medium: Collaborative: Extending Smart-Phone Application Analysis,
NSF (CNS), $
1,386,518 (plus 16k REU supplement) (PSU award $
534,748)
,
8/1/2012-
7/31/2016, Collaborators:
PSU (McDaniel), Wisconsin (Jha).
PI,
Battelle BGP Security Study (Phase 1),
Battelle, $
94,400,
2/15/2012-
9/30/2012, Collaborators:
PSU (McDaniel).
co-PI,
TC: Medium: Collaborative Research: Building Trustworthy Applications for Mobile Devices,
NSF (CNS), $
1,386,518 (PSU award $
350,000)
,
8/1/2011-
7/31/2014, Collaborators:
PSU (McDaniel), Wisconsin (Banerjee, Jha, Swift).
PI,
Closing the Loop on Security Testing and Security Requirements,
Security and Software Engineering Research Center, $
31,000,
8/1/2011-
7/31/2012.
co-PI,
Managing Security and Vulnerability Risks in the Smart Grid,
Institute for CyberScience and The Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment, $
31,000,
08/1/09-
12/16/09, Collaborators:
PSU (Blumsack, McDaniel).
PI,
Smart Grid Cyber Security Research,
Lockheed Martin, $
250,000,
1/1/10-
12/16/10.
PI,
NSF HECURA: Collaborative Research: Secure Provenance in High-End Computing Systems,
NSF (CCF), $
1,000,000 (PSU award $
307,073)
,
08/1/09-
8/31/13, Collaborators:
PSU (McDaniel), UIUC (Winslett), Stonybrook (Sion, Zadok).
PI,
TC: Medium: Collaborative Research: Security Services in Open Telecommunications Networks,
NSF (CNS), $
1,386,518 (PSU award $
594,941)
,
08/01/09-
08/01/12, Collaborators:
PSU (McDaniel, La Porta), UPenn (Blaze), Columbia (Schulzrinne).
PI,
Characterizing and Mitigating Wireless Systems Vulnerabilities,
Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP), Army Research Office (ARO), $
150,000,
05/22/09-
02/28/11, Collaborators:
PSU (La Porta, McDaniel).
co-PI,
Integrity Management for ICT Development,
Bell Labs Network Reliability and Security Office, Alcatel-Lucent , $
100,000,
11/30/08-
11/30/09, Collaborators:
PSU (La Porta, McDaniel).
PI,
Utility Grid Automation and Risk Management,
Lockheed Martin, $
400,000,
11/30/08-
12/16/09.
PI,
EVEREST: Evaluation and Validation of Election-Related Equipment, Standards, and Testing,
The State of Ohio, $
716,336 (PSU award $
332,066)
,
10/01/07-
01/07/08, Collaborators:
PSU (McDaniel), UPenn (Blaze), UCSB (Kemmerer, Vigna), Berkeley (Hall, Quilter).
Co-PI,
Protecting Services for Emerging Wireless Telecommunications Infrastructure,
NSF (CNS), $
658,032,
09/01/07-
08/31/11, Collaborators:
PSU (La Porta, Jaeger, McDaniel).
Co-PI,
Security for Internet/IMS Convergence,
Cisco, $
100,000,
9/1/07-
8/31/08, Collaborators:
PSU (La Porta, McDaniel).
Co-PI,
System-Wide Information Flow Enforcement,
BAA 06-11-IFKA, "National Intelligence Community Enterprise Cyber Assurance Program", $
496,000,
2/1/07-
8/1/08, Collaborators:
PSU (Jaeger, McDaniel).
PI,
CAREER: Realizing Practical High Assurance through Security-Typed Information Flow Systems,
NSF (CNS), $
400,000,
1/2/07-
1/1/12.
Co-PI,
CT-IS: Shamon: Systems Approaches for Constructing Distributed Trust,
NSF (CNS), $
400,000,
9/1/06-
8/31/10, Collaborators:
PSU (Jaeger, McDaniel).
Co-PI,
Center of Excellence,
Ben Franklin Technology Partners, $
75,000,
01/01/07-
07/01/07, Collaborators:
PSU (Cao, Jaeger, La Porta, McDaniel, Smith).
Co-PI,
Exploiting Asymmetry in Performance and Security Requirements for I/O in High-end Computing,
NSF (CFF), $
699,690,
9/1/06-
8/31/10, Collaborators:
PSU (McDaniel, Sivasubramaniam).
PI,
Automated Configuration with the PRESTO Network Management Platform,
AT\&T, $
100,000,
6/1/06-
5/31/07.
PI,
Testbed for Network-Scale Countermeasure Evaluation,
Cisco, $
45,938,
9/1/05-
8/31/06.
PI,
Collaborative Research: CT-T: Flexible, Decentralized Information-flow Control for Dynamic Environments,
NSF (CFF), $
1,057,427 (PSU award $
234,585)
,
8/1/05-
7/31/08, Collaborators:
PSU (McDaniel), UPenn (Zdancewic), Maryland (Hicks), GMU (Winsborough).
PI,
Extending Developer Tools for Security-typed Languages,
Software Engineering Research Center, Sponsor: Motorola, $
23,200,
7/1/05-
6/30/06.
PI,
Student Travel Support for ACM SIGCOMM 2005 Conference,
NSF, $
19,620,
4/1/05-
3/31/06.
Co-PI,
NSF CyberTrust: Collaborative Research: Testing and Benchmarking Methodologies for Future Network Security Mechanisms (EMIST),
NSF/DHS, $
5,344,459 (PSU award $
2,533,447)
,
8/1/04-
8/31/06, Collaborators:
PSU (Kesidis, Miller, Liu), Purdue (Fahmy, Rosenberg, Spafford, Shroff, Brodley), UCDavis (Wu, Levitt, Bishop, Rowe), ICSI/Berkeley (Paxson, Floyd, Weaver).
Honors, Awards and Keynote Addresses
Most Influential Paper of PLDI 2014for the paper "FlowDroid: Precise Context, Flow, Field, Object-sensitive and Lifecycle-aware Taint Analysis for Android Apps" , Presented annually to the author(s) of a paper presented at the PLDI held 10 years prior to the award year, June 2024.
SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Awardfor innovative research in mobile device security, trustworthiness of machine learning, and systems security, November 2021
Penn State Engineering Society Premier Research AwardGiven to one faculty member per year, the Penn State Engineering Alumni Society Premier Research Award recognizes and rewards an individual whose contributions to scientific knowledge through research are exemplary and internationally acclaimed, April 2021
AAAS Fellowfor distinguished contributions to the field of computational security and privacy, particularly for advancing algorithms for the formal analysis of mobile devices and applications, November 2020
SIGOPS Hall of Fame Awardrecognizing the paper "TaintDroid: an information-flow tracking system for realtime privacy monitoring on smartphones" (Will Enck first author), "which sparked an important research agenda on smartphone privacy that continues to this day", November 2020
J. D. Williams student paper award, Nuclear Security and Physical Protection divisionrecognizing the best student papers by area in Proceedings of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management Annual Meeting (INMM), July 2019
Penn State Engineering Society Outstanding Advising Awardhighly selective award by the Penn State Engineering Society given to faculty in the College of Engineering who have made significant contributions as advisor, October 2018
Best Paper, 2017 EAI SECURECOMM 2018with Sayed M. Saghaian, Tom La Porta, Trent Jaeger and Z. Berkay Celik, August 2018
Best Student Paper, 2017 ACM Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR)with Stefan Achleitner, Thomas La Porta and Trent Jaeger, April 2017
IEEE Technical Committee on Security and Privacy Outstanding Community Service Awardin recognition for leadership of the Technical Committee on Security and Privacy, May 2016
ACM Fellowfor contributions to computer and mobile systems security, December 2015
Science of Security Index of Significant Research in Cyber Security acknowledging paper 'Toward a Science of Secure Environments', Science of Security Virtual Organization (SOS-VO), August 2015
IEEE Fellowfor contributions to the security of mobile communications, November 2014
Best Artifact Award, 20th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE)with advisee Damien Octeau and collaborator Somesh Jha, November 2012
Best Paper, 25th Annual Computer Security Applications Conferencewith advisees Machigar Ongtang, Stephen McLaughlin, and William Enck, December 2009
Faculty Marshal, College of Engineeringselected by student marshals for contributions to undergraduate education, leads procession into graduation ceremony, May 2009
Penn State Engineering Society Outstanding Research Awardhighly selective award by the Penn State Engineering Society given to faculty in the College of Engineering who have made significant contributions to knowledge in their field, March 2009
Google Security and Product Safety Acknowledgementin recognition of efforts in improving the security of Google Android cellular phone operating system, 2008
Commendation for Exceptional Leadership and Achievement in recognition of efforts as PI of the EVEREST study, from Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, August 2008
IEEE Technical Committee on Security and Privacy Outstanding Community Service Awardin recognition for technical program management of the IEEE Security and Privacy symposia, August 2008
National Science Foundation CAREER AwardFaculty early career development grant, August 2007
Penn State Computer Science and Engineering Outstanding Teaching AwardGiven to best teacher in the department as selected by students, March 2007
ACM Certificate of Meritorious ServiceCertificate acknowledging exemplary service as associate editor of ACM Transactions on Internet Technologies, April 2007
Best Student Paper, 22nd Annual Computer Security Applications Conferenceas advisor, with Boniface Hicks and Kiyan Ahmadizadeh, December 2006
Best Paper, Innovations and Commercial Applications of Distributed Sensor Networks SymposiaAwarded for best paper in conference, October 2005.
Hartz Family Career Development ProfessorEndowed Professorship, Pennsylvania State University, Fall 2004-2007
Bang for the Buck Award, DARPA Dynamic Coalitions ProgramAward for most feature-rich/useful software system, April 2002
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Kennedy Space Center FellowshipResearch Fellowship, September 1997 - August 2000
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Summer Fellowship AwardUniversity of Michigan, June 1997
Dean's Citation for Perfect Academic RecordBall State University, June 1991
- Keynote Addresses
Securitys Role in Achieving Sustainability, 29th ACM Conference on Computer and
Communications Security (CCS), Los Angeles, CA, November, 2022.
Security, Game Theory, and Their Role in Achieving Sustainability, Conference on
Decision and Game Theory for Security, Pittsburgh, PA, October, 2022.
Prognosticating the Future of IoT Security, 2022 IEEE SafeThings Workshop, San
Francisco, CA, May 2022.
The Challenges of Machine Learning in Adversarial Settings. Triangle Area Privacy and
Security Day, Durham, NC, October, 2019.
The Challenges of Machine Learning in Adversarial Settings. 2019 Subversion and
Assurance of AI Workshop, US National Reconnaissance Office, Washington, DC, March, 2019.
Attacks, Defenses, and Impacts of Machine Learning in Adversarial Settings. 2017
Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), Niagara Falls,
Canada, October, 2017.
Tracing the Arc of Smartphone Application Security. 2017 ACM on International Workshop
on Security And Privacy Analytics. Scottsdale, AZ, March, 2017.
Tracing the Arc of Smartphone Application Security. 12th International Conference on
Information Systems Security, Jaipur, India, December, 2016.
The 25th International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN 2016),
August, 2016, Waikoloa, Hawaii.
Learning from Ourselves: Where are we and where can we go in mobile systems security?.
Mobile Security Technologies (MOST) 2016 Workshop, IEEE Computer Society Security and
Privacy Workshops, San Jose, CA, May, 2016.
Eight Years of Mobile Smartphone Security. Center for Secure and Dependable Systems
(CSDS) Cybersecurity Symposium, Coeur d'Alene, April, 2016.
The Importance of Measurement and Decision Making to a Science of Security, 2015 IEEE
Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), September 2015, Florence, Italy.
The Importance of Measurement and Decision Making to a Science of Security. 3rd
International Symposium on Resilient Cyber Systems, Philadelphia, PA, August, 2015.
The Importance of Measurement and Decision Making to a Science of Security, 2015
Symposium And Bootcamp on the Science of Security (Hotsos), April 2015, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Security and Science of Agility, ACM Workshop on Moving Target Defense (MTD 2014),
November 2014, Scottsdale, AZ
A Secondary Internet Revolution: How the Smart Device has Changed the Information
Security Landscape, IEEE New Technology Industry Seminar (NTIS `13), Everett WA, August,
2013
Permission-based Application Governance; A Step Forward or Backward?, 26th Annual WG
11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec'12), Paris, France,
July 2012.
Scalable Integrity-Guaranteed AJAX, The 14th Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb),
Kunming, China, April 2012.
Security Challenges and Solutions in Mobile Smartphone Applications, IEEE Computer
Security Foundations (CSF 2011), Abbaye des Vaux de Cernay, France, June 2012.
Password Exhaustion: Predicting the End of Password Usefulness. 2nd International
Conference on Information Systems Security, Kolkata India, December, 2006.
Physical and Digital Convergence: Where the Internet is the Enemy. Eighth International
Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS '06), Raleigh, NC, December,
2006.
- Distinguished Lectures
Adversarial Machine Learning: A 10-year Perspective, NSF ACTION AI Institute
Distinguished Lecture Series, Virtual, December, 2024.
Adversarial Machine Learning: A 10-year Perspective, University of Illinois,
Champaign-Urbana, Champaign, IL, November, 2024.
The Challenges of Machine Learning in Adversarial Settings: A Systems Perspective,
University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, December, 2023.
The Challenges of Machine Learning in Adversarial Settings: A Systems Perspective,
Michigan State University, Lansing, MI, November, 2023.
The Challenges of Machine Learning in Adversarial Settings: A Systems Perspective.
Computer Science Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, February, 2022.
The Challenges of Machine Learning in Adversarial Settings: A Systems Perspective.
Computer Science Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, February, 2020.
Shutterstock Distinguished Lecture: The Challenges of Machine Learning in Adversarial
Settings. Computer Science Department, Stonybrook University, Stonybrook, NY, December,
2019.
Distinguished Blockchain Lecture: The Challenges of Machine Learning in Adversarial
Settings. Cylab Security and Privacy Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA,
December, 2019.
Distinguished Speaker Series: The Challenges of Machine Learning in Adversarial
Settings. Department of Computer Science, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, November,
2018.
Samuel D. Conte Distinguished Lecture Series: The Challenges of Machine Learning in
Adversarial Settings. Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafeyette,
Indiana, November, 2018.
The Challenges of Machine Learning in Adversarial Settings. Department of Software and
Information Systems, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, February,
2018.
Tracing the Arc of Smartphone Application Security. Celebrating 50 Years of Computer
Science @ NC State, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, October, 2017.
Tracing the Arc of Smartphone Application Security. Computer Science Department and the
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Seminar Series, Colorado State University,
Fort Colins, CO, October, 2017.
Tracing the Arc of Smartphone Application Security. Rochester Institute of Technology,
College of Computing and Information Sciences, Rochester, NY, September, 2017.
Tracing the Arc of Smartphone Application Security, University of Texas-Dallas
Department of Computer Science, Dallas, TX, May 2017.
Tracing the Arc of Smartphone Application Security. Rochester Institute of Technology,
College of Computing and Information Sciences, Rochester, NY, May 2017.
Tracing the Arc of Smartphone Application Security. University of California-Irvine,
Computer Science Department, Irvine CA, March, 2017.
Tracing the Arc of Smartphone Application Security. The Ohio State University,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Columbus, OH, March, 2017.
Tracing the Arc of Smartphone Application Security. Virginia Technical University,
Department of Computer Science, Blacksburg, VA, March, 2017.
Six Years of Mobile Smartphone Security, CISPA Distinguished Lecture Series, Max Planck
Institute/Saarland University, Saarbrucken Germany, July, 2015.
Six Years of Mobile Smartphone Security. Technische Universtat Darmstadt, Darmstadt
Germany, July, 2015.
Security Challenges and Solutions in Mobile Smartphone Applications. Computer and
Information Science Department, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, April, 2011.
Security Challenges and Solutions in Mobile Smartphone Applications. Department of
Software Information Systems College of Computing and Informatics, UNC Charlotte, Charlotte,
NC, December, 2010.
Patents
- U.S. Patent No. 7,873,350, Patrick McDaniel and Martin Strauss, End-to-end secure wireless communication for requesting a more secure channel, January, 2011.
- U.S. Patent No. 7,975,044, Oliver Spatscheck, Subhabrata Sen, Jacobus Van der Merwe and Patrick McDaniel, Automated disambiguation of fixed-serverport-based applications from ephemeral applications, July, 2011.
- U.S. Patent No. 8,175,580, Patrick McDaniel and Martin Strauss, End-to-end secure wireless communication for requesting a more secure channel, May, 2012.
- U.S. Patent No. 8,453,227, William Aiello, Charles Kalmanek, William Leighton III, Patrick McDaniel, Subhabrata Sen, Oliver Spatscheck and Jacobus Van der Merwe, Reverse firewall with self-provisioning, May, 2013.
- U.S. Patent No. 8,732,293, Patrick McDaniel, Subhabrata Sen, Oliver Spatscheck and Jacobus Van der Merwe, System and method for tracking individuals on a data network using communities of interest, May, 2014.
- U.S. Patent No. 8,813,213, William Aiello, Charles Kalmanek, William Leighton III, Patrick McDaniel, Subhabrata Sen, Oliver Spatscheck and Jacobus Van der Merwe, Reverse firewall with self-provisioning, August, 2014.
Professional Service
Editorial Positions, Panels, and Boards
IEEE Technical Committee on Security and PrivacyChair--January 2014-January 2016Vice Chair--January 2012-December 2014
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)Editor in Chief--September 2007-December 2012Associate Editor--April 2004-August 2007
IEEE Security and Privacy MagazineArea Editor, Secure Systems--January 2009-2015
IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC)Associate Editor--August 2008-2014
ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC)Associate Editor--May 2007-May 2012
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)Associate Editor--January 2007-April 2012Guest Editor, Special Issue on Topics in Security--Fall 2006-April 2012
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)Guest Editor, Special Issue on Trust, Security and Privacy in Parallel and Distributed
Systems--Fall 2012
Elsevier Journal of Computer NetworksGuest Editor, Special Issue on Web Security--Fall 2003-Spring 2005
Encyclopedia of Cryptography and SecurityEditorial Board Member--Fall 2002-Spring 2005
Journal of Defense Modeling and SimulationGuest Editor, Special Issue on Cyber Risk and Vulnerability Estimation--Winter 2018-
Other Professional Activities
IEEE Workshop on the Internet of Safe Things (SafeThings)Steering Committee--2022-present
Helmholtz Center for Information Security (CISPA), Scientific Advisory BoardOhio University College of Engineering, Board of VistorsPenn State CISO Advisory BoardMember, Technical Guideline Development Committee, U.S. Election Assistance CommissionNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Internetworked Systems Security NetworkScientific Advisory Board--2008-2013
Technology for Cyber Physical System Security Forum, Cyber Security Research and Development, (Senators Joseph I. Lieberman and Susan Collins, Chairs)Speaker and Participant--September 2008
ACM Student Organization AdvisorPenn State Computer Science and Engineering Department--2006-2012
The Technology CollaborativePenn State Representative (Pennsylvania economic development consortium)--2007-2008
President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory PanelMember, Next Generation Networks Task Force--2005-2006
Abusable Technologies Awareness Center (ATAC)Panelist--October 2003-2010
AT\&T IP Services Security CouncilMember--June 2003-August 2004
AT\&T Internet Intellectual Property Review TeamMember--September 2001-May 2002
ACM SIGCOMM Student Travel Grant CommitteeNational Science Foundation, Grant Review PanelMember--2003-2004, 2006-2007, 2009-2021
Department of Energy SciDAC Review Panel
Conference and Workshop Participation
IEEE Symposium on Security and PrivacyTechnical Program Co-Chair--2007, 2008Program Committee--2011, 2012, 2013, 2022, 2023, 2024
USENIX Security SymposiumProgram Chair--2005Invited Talks Chair--2006, 2009Program Committee--2001, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)Program Committee--2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023Industry and Government Track Chair--2004, 2007Program Committee-Industry and Government Track--2003, 2005, 2006Test of Time Committee--2019, 2020
IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning (SaTML)Founding Program Co-Chair--2023
IEEE European Symposium on Security and PrivacySteering Committee--2015-presentProgram Committee--2016, 2017
International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST)Steering Committee--2019-
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec)Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)Program Committee--2009, 2012, 2013, 2017
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)Program Committee--2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2019Test of Time Committee--2019
Financial CryptographyGeneral Chair--2006Program Committee--2007, 2008, 2012
Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF)Program Committee--2011, 2021
European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS)Program Committee--2004, 2005, 2021
ACM Symposium of SDx Research 2021 (SOSR)International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems (ICISSP)IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS)Program Committee--2015, 2017
ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom)Program Committee--2010, 2011, 2012Program Committee, Distinguished Member--2021
ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys)ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT)Program Committee--2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011
ACM Conference on ASIA Computer and Communications Security (ASIA CCS)ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (ACM EC)EAI International Conf. on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm)International Conference on Applied Cryptography and
Network Security (ACNS)ACM Annual Digital Forensics ConferenceIEEE Workshop on the Internet of Safe ThingsProgram Committee--2019, 2022
ACM Workshop on Moving Target Defense (MTD)Program Committee--2015, 2016
IEEE ICNP Workshop on Secure Network Protocols
(NPSec)Program Committee--2005, 2006
Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec)Program Committee--2012, 2018
ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC)Program Committee, Information Security Research and Applications --2010
USENIX Annual Technical ConferenceProgram Committee--2002, 2003
World Wide Web Conference (WWW)Security and Privacy Track Vice-Chair--2005Security and Privacy Track Deputy Vice-Chair--2004Program Committee--2003, 2007, 2010, 2011
Intl. Conference on Emerging Trends in Information and Communication Security (ETRICS)International Conference On Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)IEEE INFOCOMIEEE GLOBECOMMilitary Communications Conference (MILCOM)Program Committee--2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022
The Five Nines Workshop on Designing and Managing High Availability Internet Services (INM)International Conference on Information Systems
Security (ICISS)Steering Committee--2007Program Co-Chair--2007Program Committee--2005, 2006, 2009, 2011
International Conference on Parallel ProcessingProgram Committee-Network Security--2003
USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET)ACM Workshop on Networking, Systems, Applications on Mobile Handhelds (MobiHand)ACM Workshop on Cloud Computing SecurityProgram Committee--2009, 2010
ACM Workshop on Security and Privacy in Smartphones and Mobile Devices (SPSM)Program Committee--2011, 2012, 2013
International Workshop on Security in Software EngineeringFounding General Co-Chair--2007
USENIX Workshop On Offensive Technology (WOOT)ACM Storage Security and Survivability WorkshopACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Internet Network ManagementProgram Committee--2006, 2007
Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security (DBSec)Program Committee--2006, 2007, 2008
Workshop on Workshop on Telecommunications Infrastructure Protection and Security
(TIPS)USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec)Program Chair--2011Program Committee--2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012
ACM Workshop TPC on Security and Privacy in Smartphones and Mobile DevicesInternational Workshop on Security (IWSEC)International Workshop on Systems and Network Security
(SNS)Program Committee--2005, 2006
Expert Witness
- Certain Mobile Phones, Components Thereof, and Products Containing Same, ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1375, and In the Matter of Certain Electronic Devices, Including Mobile Phones, Tablets, Laptops, Components Thereof, and Products Containing the Same,
Expert for Expert for the defense (Lenovo), International Trade Court, Case no. No. 337-TA-1375; No. 337-TA-1376; No. 5:23- cv-569; No. 5:23-cv-570.
- DivX, LLC v. Hulu, LLC and Netflix, Inc.,
Expert for Expert for the defense, Central District of California, Case no. Case No. 2:19-cv-01602.
- Inter Partes Review,
Expert for Expert for Apple Inc., United States Patent and Trademark Office, Case no. Patent No 10,929,512.
- Finjan Inc., vs. Rapid7 Inc and Rapid7 LLC,
Expert for Expert for Rapid7, District of Delaware, Case no. C.A. No. 1:18-CV-01519-MN.
- Finjan Inc., vs. Cisco Systems, Inc.,
Expert for Expert for CISCO, Northern District of California, San Jose Division, Case no. Case No. 5:17-cv-00072-BLF-SVK.
- Rimini Street, Inc. v. Oracle International Corporation,
Expert for Expert for Oracle, United States District Court, District of Nevada, Case no. Case No. 2:14-cv-01699.
- Inter Partes Review,
Expert for Expert for Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., United States Patent and Trademark Office, Case no. Patent Nos 9,277,433 and 9,521,578.
- Inter Partes Review,
Expert for Expert for Dropbox Inc., United States Patent and Trademark Office, Case no. Patent Nos 8,484,260 and 8,296,338.
- Finjan, LLC. v. SonicWall Inc.,
Expert for Expert for SonicWall, Northern District of California, Case no. Case No. 5:17-cv-04467-BLF-VKD.
- WebRoot, INC. and OpenText, Inc. v Kaspersky Lab, Trent Micro, Sophos LTD., Crowdstrike Holdings, INC, and Forcepoint, LCC.,
Expert for Expert for the Plaintiff, Western District of Texas, Case no. 6:22-CV-00243-ADA-DTG, 6:22-CV-00239-ADA-DTG, 6:22-CV-00240-ADA-DTG, 6:22-CV-00241-ADA-DTG, FORCEPOINT, LLC, and 6:22-CV-00342-ADA-DTG.
Industrial Experience
Software Developer, Applied Innovation, Inc., Columbus, OH, 1994-1995
Project Manager, Primary Access Corporation, San Diego, CA, 1993-1994
Software Developer, Primary Access Corporation, San Diego, CA, 1991-1993
Software Developer, Integrated Technologies, Inc., Muncie, IN, 1989