Michael Reiter is a James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering at Duke University. He received the B.S. degree in mathematical sciences from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) in 1989, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Cornell University in 1991 and 1993, respectively. His previous positions include Director of Secure Systems Research at Bell Labs; Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, where he was the founding Technical Director of CyLab; and Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at UNC.
Prof. Reiter's research interests include all areas of computer and communications security and distributed computing. He regularly publishes and serves on conference organizing committees in these fields. He has served as technical program chair for premier research conferences in computer security (IEEE S&P, ACM CCS, ISOC NDSS) and dependability (IEEE/IFIP DSN), and as Editor-in-Chief of the flagship ACM journal on computer security and privacy (ACM TOPS). He also served on the Emerging Technology and Research Advisory Committee for the United States Department of Commerce for four years.
Prof. Reiter is an ACM Fellow (class of 2008) and an IEEE Fellow (2014). He is the recipient of the Outstanding Contributions Award (2016) from the ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control; the ACM CODASPY Lasting Research Award (2024); and Test of Time Awards from ACM CCS (2019, 2022) and from Intel (2024) for specific research contributions.