Michael T. Dietz

3002 Duncan Hall
mdietz (shift-2) rice (dot) edu

I’m a second year computer science PhD student at Rice University. My advisor is Dan Wallach and I’m a member of the Computer Security Lab.

Current Research Interests

Web Security
+ Web Browser Design and Security
Security ∩ Social Networks
Distributed System Security
+ Specifically adaptive distributed systems
Public Key Encryption Schemes

Education

• I received a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Virginia in 2008. My senior thesis was titled IMMUNE: an Infrastructure of Mobile Machines in an Unplanned Network for Epidemiology.

Employment

• I am currently working for Petros Maniatis at Intel Research – Berkeley.

Teaching Assistantships

• (Fall 2009) Comp527 – Computer Systems Security
• (Spring 2009) Comp314 – Applied Algorithms and Data Structures
• (Fall 2008) Comp221 – Introduction to Computer Systems

Awards and Achievements

1st Place: Team AdHoc – Usenix Security Grand Challenge 2009