Biographical Information

Patrick Drew McDaniel is a principle researcher at AT&T Labs-Research and an Adjunct Professor of the Stern School of Business at New York University (NYU) in Manhattan. Dr. McDaniel received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2001 and subsequently joined the highly regarded Secure Systems Group at AT&T Research. His research efforts have focused on distributed systems security, scalable public key infrastructures, routing security, and component architectures. As a Principle Investigator of the DARPA funded Antigone project, Patrick has investigated languages and architectures for security policy determination and enforcement. Patrick's interests lie in experimental computer science focusing on systems evaluation, design, and implementation.

Dr. McDaniel has published works in the top information and network security conferences. His widely cited paper from the 2003 IEEE Conference on Security and Privacy, "Methods and Limitations of Security Policy Reconciliation", established the asymptotic limits of policy management. This work has lead to collaboration in areas such Grid computing and component systems with researchers and faculty at top institutions. Patrick has sat on the program committees for several or the major systems and security conferences including USENIX Annual Technical Conference, the USENIX Security Symposium, and WWW. He has also been a frequent member of NSF proposal evaluation panels and taught tutorials on various topics in information security and Internet privacy. Patrick has had his research reported on in many news outlets including the New York Times and the International Herald Tribute, and has been interviewed on CNN Financial News.

Patrick was the architect and developer of the Lightweight Secure Group Communication (LSGC) middleware layer. LGSC is currently used to support reliable and secure key distribution within Internet 2 test applications. He is also the author of the JavaLauncher applet platform used at NASA, Kennedy Space Center. JavaLauncher flexibly restricts access to critical instrumentation during shuttle launch windows. Patrick is an active member of the IRTF working group developing standards for secure multicast.