Adrian Perrig
Dr. Adrian Perrig is the Technical Director of CyLab, Carnegie Mellon University’s cyber security laboratory. He is also a Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Engineering and Public Policy, and Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon.
Dr. Perrig earned his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, and spent three years during his Ph.D. degree at the University of California at Berkeley. He received his B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).
Dr. Perrig's research revolves around building secure systems and includes network security, trustworthy computing and security for social networks. More specifically, he is interested in trust establishment, trustworthy code execution in the presence of malware, and how to design secure next-generation networks. More information about his research can be found at http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~adrian/.
Dr. Perrig was a recipient of the NSF CAREER award in 2004, as well as IBM faculty fellowships in 2004 and 2005, and the Sloan research fellowship in 2006.
Education
PhD, 2000. Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
MS, 1999. Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Dipl. Ing., 1997. Computer Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne