James B. Duke Distinguished Professor
Michael Reiter is a James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering at Duke University. 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 the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Appointments and Affiliations
- James B. Duke Distinguished Professor
- Professor of Computer Science
- Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Contact Information
- Office Location: 308 Research Drive D310, Box 90129, Durham, NC 27708
- Office Phone: +1 919 660 6524
- Email Address: michael.reiter@duke.edu
- Websites:
Education
- Ph.D. Cornell University, 1993
Research Interests
Prof. Reiter's research interests include all areas of computer and communications security, fault-tolerant distributed computing, and applied cryptography.
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- Outstanding Contributions Award. ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC). 2016
- Fellow. IEEE. 2014
- Fellow. ACM. 2008
Courses Taught
- ECE 656: Cryptography
- ECE 590: Advanced Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
- COMPSCI 590: Advanced Topics in Computer Science
- COMPSCI 582: Cryptography
- COMPSCI 581: Computer Security
- COMPSCI 391: Independent Study
- COMPSCI 351: Introduction to Computer Security
In the News
- The Growing Role of Computation in Science (Feb 9, 2022 | Duke Research Blog)
- Duke Awards 22 Distinguished Professorships (Jun 28, 2021)
Representative Publications
- Chi, A., B. Anderson, and M. K. Reiter. “Prioritizing Remediation of Enterprise Hosts by Malware Execution Risk.” In ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 550–64, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1145/3627106.3627180.
- Bhat, A., A. Bandarupalli, M. Nagaraj, S. Bagchi, A. Kate, and M. K. Reiter. “EESMR: Energy Efficient BFT - -SMR for the masses.” In Middleware 2023 - Proceedings of the 24th ACM/IFIP International Middleware Conference, 1–14, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1145/3590140.3592848.
- Reiter, Michael K. “Tackling Credential Abuse Together.” In Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy. ACM, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1145/3577923.3587262.
- Landwehr, C., M. K. Reiter, L. Williams, G. Tsudik, T. Jaeger, T. Kohno, and A. Kapadia. “Looking Backwards (and Forwards): NSF Secure and Trustworthy Computing 20-Year Retrospective Panel Transcription.” IEEE Security and Privacy 21, no. 2 (March 1, 2023): 32–42. https://doi.org/10.1109/MSEC.2022.3208721.
- Yandamuri, S., I. Abraham, K. Nayak, and M. K. Reiter. “Communication-Efficient BFT Using Small Trusted Hardware to Tolerate Minority Corruption.” In Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs, Vol. 253, 2023. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2022.24.