Bryan Parno
Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Bryan Parno is an associate professor with a joint appointment in the Computer Science, and the Electrical and Computer Engineering departments. His research is primarily focused on investigating long-term, fundamental improvements in how to design and build secure systems. As a result, his work combines theory and practice to provide formal, rigorous security guarantees about concrete systems, with an emphasis on creating solid foundations for practical solutions.
2010 Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
2005 MA, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
2004 BA, Computer Science, Harvard University
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
A team of researchers including CyLab's Bryan Parno published a study about a new tool that mathematically proves that concurrent programs will compute correctly.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
This month, code from the provably correct and secure “EverCrypt” cryptographic library, which CyLab’s Bryan Parno and his team helped develop and release last year, was officially incorporated into the Linux kernel — the core of the Linux operating system.
Computer Business Review
Team Everest, a joint Microsoft-academia collaboration, recently released a cryptographic provider and library called EverCrypt. ECE’s Bryan Parno, who worked on the project, says that it has “the same features, convenience, and performance as popular existing cryptographic libraries without the bugs that leave protocols and applications vulnerable.”
CMU Engineering
Earlier this week, a team consisting of researchers from CyLab released the world’s first verifiably secure industrial-strength cryptographic library—a set of code that can be used to protect data and is guaranteed to protect against the most popular classes of cyberattacks.
Popular Science
End-to-end encryption is essential to privacy. But as Facebook begins to incorporate encryption into its messaging services, it’s important to consider the caveats that come with it. ECE’s Bryan Parno weighs in on the conversation in Popular Science.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
In security, almost nothing is guaranteed. It's impossible to test the infinite ways a criminal hacker may penetrate a proverbial firewall. But what if, by the laws of mathematics, something could be proven to be secure without running an infinite number of test cases?
CMU Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University team receives $7.5M ONR grant for software complexity reduction, or simplifying complex internet protocols to build greater security.
The Wall Street Journal
CyLab/ECE’s Bryan Parno was quoted about a jump in computer hardware security papers submitted to an IEEE conference in response to Intel's Spectre and Meltdown chip flaws.
CMU Engineering
The CONIX Center is creating the architecture for networked computing to better connect edge devices to the cloud in the IoT.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
CyLab’s Bryan Parno is one of five Carnegie Mellon recipients of the 2018 Sloan Research Fellowship.
Popular Science
Although machine learning is a powerful tool, ECE/CyLab’s Bryan Parno says in an article for Popular Science that, historically, its been challenging to use for security problems.
CMU Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University will lead a $27.5 million Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) initiative to build more intelligence into computer networks.