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Patrick D. McDaniel

  • Co-Director: Systems and Internet Infrastructure Security (SIIS)
  • Professor
360A IST Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 863-3599

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Education:

  1. Ph.D., University of Michigan

Biography:

Patrick McDaniel is a Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the Pennsylvania State University and co-director of the Systems and Internet Infrastructure Security Laboratory. Patrick's research efforts centrally focus on network, telecommunications, and systems security, language-based security, and technical public policy. Patrick is the editor-in-chief of the ACM Journal Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), and serves as associate editor of the journals ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, and IEEE Transactions on Computers. Patrick was awarded the National Science Foundation CAREER Award and has chaired several top conferences in security including, among others, the 2007 and 2008 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy and the 2005 USENIX Security Symposium. Prior to pursuing his Ph.D. in 1996 at the University of Michigan, Patrick was a software architect and program manager in the telecommunications industry.

Research Interests:

Systems and Network Security, Security Policy, Networking, Distributed Systems, Public Policy, Telecommunications Security, Network Management, Applied Cryptography, Privacy

Selected Publications:

  1. Butler, K., T. Farley, P. McDaniel, J. Rexford.  January 2010.  A Survey of BGP Security Issues and Solutions. Proceedings of the IEEE 2010(1):100-122.
  2. Ryu, S., K. Butler, P. Traynor, P. McDaniel.  December 2009.  Leveraging Identity-based Cryptography for Node ID Assignment in Structured P2P Systems.  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) 20(12):1803-1815.
  3. Traynor, P., W. Enck, P. McDaniel, T. F. La Porta.  2008.  Mitigating Attacks on Open Functionality in SMS-Capable Cellular Networks.  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON) 17(1):40-53.
  4. Traynor, P., W. Enck, P. McDaniel, T. F. La Porta.  2008.  Exploiting Open Functionality in SMS-Capable Cellular Networks.  Journal of Computer Security 16(6):713-742.
  5. Traynor, P., M. Chien, S. Weaver, B. Hicks, P. McDaniel. 2008. Non-Invasive Methods for Host Certification.  ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC).  Volume 11, Issue 3, Article 16.  23 pages.