#PennState tied for first nationally in the latest U.S. National Science Foundation rankings reflecting breadth of research expertise. 👏 Penn State and Johns Hopkins each had 16 fields ranked in the top 10 in research expenditures. ow.ly/KvbG50DPtPH

After all these years, finally discovered why we train to navigate like it was the 1940s. Had a complete HSI (GPS navigation system) failure in flight and had to revert to VOR radio navigation. Easy flight home ...

Went to my first museum in over a year (Philadelphia Museum of Art, socially distanced and by appointment), and it was glorious. Netflix was ok for a while, but it is not a suitable replacement for a real life ...

Shout out to my students Ahmed and Yohan BEUGIN for both passing their MS Thesis defenses this week. Exceptionally solid work!

So #pennstate is going with the honor policy for students masking in class. I have 320 students in my CMPSC311 course this semester, which means if even 1% of students are unvaccinated & unmasked , I and the other students will be put in danger 153 times over 16 weeks.

The IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning (SaTML) will take place for the 1st time on Feb 8-10, 2023! Very excited to create and co-chair SaTML Conference with Nicolas Papernot! Abstracts by Aug 22, 2022 Papers by Sep 1, 2022 Location Austin, TX

I am happy to announce that after 18 great years at Penn State I will be moving to the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW–Madison), joining as the Tsun-Ming Shih Professor in the Dept. of Computer Sciences (UW–Madison Computer Sciences).

Happy to have given the keynote at ACM CCS 2024 on the critical importance of cyber-security to achieving sustainability goals - great discussion! Looking forward to seeing papers in security conferences on sustainability. For folks looking for the slides: patrickmcdaniel.org/pubs/ccs22.pdf

Happy to announce the list of accepted papers for the IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning : satml.org/accepted-paper… SaTML Conference

Pleased to announce that Farinaz Koushanfar and myself will be co-chairing the U.S. National Science Foundation SaTC Vision 2.0 workshop on March 8-9th. We are calling for nominations for attendees and discussion topics (Deadline February 10th). More info: cdis.wisc.edu/satc2/ UW–Madison Computer Sciences UW School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences UW-Madison L&S

ANNOUNCEMENT: The U.S. National Science Foundation Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) 2.0 Vision Statement is publicly available on arXiv! Check it out here: arxiv.org/abs/2308.00623

At the request of NSF, Farinaz Koushanfar and I have collected input from numerous members of the technology community. Input was solicited from the SaTC community across academia, industry, and government for insights on the next ten years in security and privacy research.

The SaTC 2.0 Vision Statement is a synthesized document that highlights the challenges, opportunities, and needs for new science and outreach within the SaTC community, and sets priorities for the next ten years of research in security and privacy.

SaTC is welcoming feedback from the broader community. If you have any comments, please submit them here: surveymonkey.com/r/nsfsecure_tr…

Had an AMAZING time today presenting DScope at the USENIX Security Symposium! For those who missed it: never fear! You can find an extended version of the talk RIGHT NOW at dscope.org/sec23.

Delighted to announce that my advisee, Eric Pauley, has been awarded the Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award at UW–Madison CS! This honor is given to just one graduate student each year, and it’s difficult to think of someone more deserving.

Eric’s research takes a principled approach to the security of cloud and software systems, led by the key insight that securing these platforms is fundamentally a data problem: by developing new vantage points on attacker behavior, we can better defend against attacks.

Eric’s work has not only advanced the science of security measurement, but has led to real-world security improvements for some of the most critical infrastructures backing modern computation. The practical impact of Eric’s work truly exemplifies the Wisconsin Idea.

Eric’s work has been highly collaborative, but I would be remiss if I give a shout out to Paul Barford in particular. Working with Paul has been one of the highlights of our move to Madison, and his insights and mentorship have been instrumental in Eric’s work.

Please join me in congratulating Eric for this remarkable accomplishment! Eric will be on the job market for tenure-track faculty positions this fall (2024).