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Patrick D. McDaniel

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

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Education:

  1. Ph.D., University of Michigan

Biography:

Patrick McDaniel is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Penn State, co-director of the Systems and Internet Infrastructure Security Laboratory, and Adjunct Professor of the Stern School of Business at New York University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2001 where he studied the complexity, semantics, and enforcement of security policy. Prior to joining Penn State, Patrick was a senior technical staff Member of the Secure Systems Group at AT&T Labs-Research.
Patrick's research efforts centrally focus on network, telecommunications, and systems security, language-based security, and technical and public policy issues in digital media. 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. Patrick is also an associate editor of the journals IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering and ACM Transactions on Internet Technologies. Prior to pursuing his Ph.D. in 1996, 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. Enck, W., T. Moyer, P. McDaniel, S. Sen, P. Sebos, S. Spoerel, A. Greenberg, Y.-W. Sung, S. Rao, W. Aiello.  2009.  Configuration Management at Massive Scale: System Design and Experience.  IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) 27(3):323-335.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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) 11(3).
  5. Lootah, W., W. Enck, P. McDaniel. October 2007.  TARP:  Ticket-based Address Resolution Protocol.  Computer Networks, Elsevier, 51(15):4322-4337.