Michael Reiter

Michael Reiter

James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering

michael.reiter@duke.edu

Michael Reiter is a James B. Duke Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Computer Science (CS) and Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) at Duke University. He joined Duke in 2021, following previous positions in industry (culminating as Director of Secure Systems Research at Bell Labs, Lucent) and academia (Professor of CS and ECE at Carnegie Mellon, and Distinguished Professor of CS at UNC-Chapel Hill). His technical contributions (with numerous collaborators) lie primarily in computer security and distributed computing, and include, among others: graphical user authentication techniques very similar to ones eventually adopted in the Android platform; a system to support dynamic launch of execution enclaves with minimal trust assumptions that was a precursor to modern realizations of this capability (e.g., Intel SGX); a blockchain protocol adopted by Diem; another that forms the basis of VMware's blockchain offering; the discovery of fundamental vulnerabilities in defenses, ranging from robust state-estimation algorithms used in power systems to isolation as implemented by modern hypervisors; and security advances in machine learning, including methods to construct natural physical artifacts to cause misclassification of images in which they appear and new methods to defend against such exploits. He was named an ACM Fellow in 2008 and an IEEE Fellow in 2014 for "contributions to computer security and fault-tolerant distributed computing".