Trent Jaeger received his M.S.E. and Ph.D degrees in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1993 and 1997, respectively. Trent joined the Computer Science and Engineering department at Penn State in 2005. He is co-director of the Systems and Internet Infrastructure Security (SIIS) Lab at Penn State. Prior to joining Penn State, he was a research staff member at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center for nine years.

His research/teaching interests are in the areas of computer security, operating systems, security policies, and source code analysis for security. Trent has been active in the Linux community for several years, particularly in contributing code and tools for the Linux Security Modules (LSM) framework (in Linux 2.6) and for integrating the SELinux/LSM with IPsec (called Labeled IPsec, available in Linux 2.6.18 and above). Trent also has active interests in virtual machine systems (mostly Xen) and trusted computing hardware (Linux Integrity Measurement Architecture and its successor PRIMA).

He is also active in the security research community at large, having served on the program committees of many of the major security conferences, including the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, USENIX Security Symposium, ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, ISOC Network and Distributed Systems Symposium. Trent has been Program Chair of the ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies and the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (Industry Track). He is the current Program Chair for the 2007 USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security. He has over 60 refereed publications, and is the holder of several U.S. patents.

He is married to Dana, and they have two sons, Alec and David. They need to work on their web pages.