Michael Backes

Michael Backes (born January 7, 1978) is a German professor of computer science. He is the founding director and CEO of the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security. He is known for his work on formal methods, cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies.


Michael Backes
Born1978
NationalityGerman
Academic background
Alma materSaarland University
Thesis'Cryptographically Sound Analysis of Security Protocols' (2002)
Doctoral advisorBirgit Pfitzmann, Harald Ganzinger
Academic work
Main interestsformal methods, cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies
Website

Life and career

Born in Germany, he received a diploma degree in computer science and a diploma degree in mathematics from Saarland University in 2001 and 2002, respectively, and obtained his PhD in computer science from Saarland University in 2002 under the supervision of Birgit Pfitzmann and Harald Ganzinger.

He was successively a researcher at IBM Research (2002 – 2005) and associate professor (2005) and professor (2006 – today) of computer science at Saarland University, Germany.

He is the founding director and CEO of the newly funded CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany, since 2018.

His research is concerned with information security and privacy, particularly on security and privacy in machine learning, trustworthy information processing and medical privacy; design, analysis and verification for security-critical systems and services, and universal solutions in software and network security.

Awards and honors

Backes has received a number of awards, including the following:

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References
  1. "PET Award". petsymposium.org.
  2. "Top Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies Recognized at Toronto Conference". Stories. May 28, 2004.
  3. "Michael Backes – MPI SWS". www.mpi-sws.org.
  4. http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/dw/university/facultyawards/2008_faculty_recipients.pdf
  5. Review, MIT Technology. "Innovator Under 35: Michael Backes, 31". MIT Technology Review.
  6. https://erc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/press_release/files/stg-2_list_pe.pdf
  7. https://erc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/document/file/erc_2013_syg_results.pdf
  8. "Professor der Saar-Uni ist jüngstes Mitglied der Deutschen Akademie der Technikwissenschaften". www.uni-saarland.de. August 24, 2019.
  9. "Launch of 2nd edition of CNIL-INRIA Privacy Award | CNIL". www.cnil.fr.
  10. "NSA's 5th Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition Award". National Security Agency | Central Security Service.
  11. https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/fellows/2019-ieee-fellow-class.pdf
  12. "3 questions à Michael Backes, professeur en informatique et docteur honoris causa 2018 de l'Université de Lorraine | Factuel". factuel.univ-lorraine.fr.
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