Patrick D. McDaniel

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. McDaniel, P., A. Prakash. November 2006. Enforcing Provisioning and Authorization Policy in the Antigone System. Journal of Computer Security 14(9):483-511.
   
2. McDaniel, P., B. Aiello, K. Butler, J. Ioannidis. November 2006. Origin Authentication in Interdomain Routing. Journal of Communication Networks 50(16):2953-2980. Elsevier.
   
3. McDaniel, P., A. Prakash. August 2006. Methods and Limitations of Security Policy Reconciliation. ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC) 9(3):259-291. (Extended version of paper appearing in 2002 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy)
   
4. Traynor, P., W. Enck, P. McDaniel, T. F. La Porta. September 2006. Mitigating Attacks on Open Functionality in SMS-Capable Cellular Networks. Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (Mobicom 2006). pp. 182-193. Los Angeles, CA.
   
5. Enck, W., P. Traynor, P. McDaniel, T. F. La Porta. November 2005. Exploiting Open Functionality in SMS-Capable Cellular Networks. Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2005). pp. 393-404. Alexandria, VA.