The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

The Center for Education and Research in
Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

Mike Atallah

CERIAS Fellow

 Mike Atallah

Title

Distinguished Professor 

Department

Office

LWSN 2116D 

Office Phone

+1 765 49-46017 

Education

Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University 

Research Areas

Professor Atallah's current research interests are in information security (in particular, software security, secure protocols, and watermarking). He received a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation in 1985. 

Key Areas

Assurable Software and Architecture Identification, Authentication, Privacy Cryptology and Rights Management 

Notable Experience

Served on many top computer science journal editorial boards, and on the program committees of many international conferences and workshops. Keynote and invited speaker at many national and international meetings. Co-founded Arxan Technologies Inc. (June 2002), a startup that recently secured funding from a top-tier venture capital firm. 

Notable Awards

NSF Presidential Young Investigator [1985]

Fellow, Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) [1997]

Listed in Purdue University Book of Great Teachers [1999]

Purdue University Distinguished Professor [2004]
Distinguished Professor of Computer Science

Fellow of the Purdue University Teaching Academy [2004]

Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) [2006]

Distinguished Alumnus Award, American University in Beirut [2007]

Purdue Research Foundation Inventors Recognition [2011]

Purdue University Outstanding Commercialization Award [2013]

Sigma Xi Faculty Research Award [2016]

Arden L. Bement Award [2017] 

Notable Affiliations

A Fellow of both the IEEE and ACM and Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Computers. 

Publications

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Biography

Mikhail ("Mike") Atallah obtained his PhD from the Johns Hopkins University in 1982, and has been on the faculty of the Purdue University Computer Science Department since then. His current research interests are in information security (in particular, software security, secure protocols, and watermarking). He received a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation in 1985. A Fellow of the IEEE, he has served on many top computer science journal editorial boards, and was on the program committees of many international conferences and workshops. He was keynote and invited speaker at many national and international meetings. Last June he co-founded Arxan Technologies Inc., a startup that recently secured funding from a top-tier venture capital firm.