Patrick McDaniel

Patrick McDaniel is an associate professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the Pennsylvania State University and 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 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 an associate editor of the journals ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, and ACM Transactions on Internet Technologies. 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.