Prof. Dr. Michael Waidner

SIT Research Group, Chair
Fraunhofer SIT, Director
CASED and EC-SPRIDE, Director

Curriculum Vitae

For a short CV in German and English check here.

Michael Waidner is the chair professor for Security in Information Technology at the  Technical University of Darmstadt, Department for Computer Science, and the Director (Institutsleiter) of the  Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology. He is also Director (Geschäftsführender Direktor) of the  Center for Advanced Security Research Darmstadt (CASED) and of the  European Center for Security and Privacy by Design (EC-SPRIDE).

Michael Waidner took his current position in Darmstadt in October 2010. From 1994 to 2010 he held various technical and management positions with the  IBM Corporation. Until 2006 he was with  IBM Research in Rüschlikon, Switzerland, as a Senior Manager responsible for IBM Zurich's security and software research projects, and responsible for IBM Research's worldwide agenda in security and privacy. During that time he co-initiated the  IBM Privacy Research Institute, which he led until 2006, and the  Zurich Information Security Center ( ZISC), a joint research center hosted by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH). In 2006 he joined the IBM Software Group in Somers, NY, USA. Until he left IBM he was an IBM Distinguished Engineer and the Chief Technology Officer for Security for the IBM Corporation and the Chair of the  IBM Security Architecture Board. At IBM he received several Outstanding Technical/Innovation Achievement awards and was elected to the  IBM Academy of Technology for his work in security research and development, in particular in the areas of cryptography and cryptographic protocols, privacy and identity management, Web Services security and risk and compliance management. 

From 1986 to 1994 he was a researcher at the University of Karlsruhe (now  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Karlsruhe, Germany, where he received a Diploma and Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) in Computer Science, in 1986 and 1991, respectively. 

Michael Waidner regularly participates in scientific and technical advisory boards, program committees and conferences. In 2000 and 2002 he co-/chaired the  European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) and in 2004 and 2005 the  IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy ("Oakland"). He is a member of the ESORICS Steering Committee, and co-initiator of the ACM Workshop on Formal Methods in Security Engineering.

He has co-/authored more than 130 scientific and technical publications in the areas of security, privacy, cryptography, dependability and fault tolerance. He has co-/invented more than 20 patents.

He is a Fellow of the IEEE, an ACM Distinguished Scientist, and a Member of the Gesellschaft für Informatik. 

Publications

•  DBLP Computer Science Bibliography
• Many of my old publications can be found in the  Sirene Archive

Editorial Boards / Steering Committees

Program Committees

Past program committees since 2011 are listed here.

• VDI Wissensforum: Industrial IT Security, Frankfurt am Main, 3-4 Jul 2013: Chair

•   18th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security 2013 (ESORICS), 9-13 Sep 2013, London: Program Committee

•   9th International Workshop on Security and Trust Management 2013 (STM), in conjunction with ESORICS 2013: Program Committee

•  20th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS), 4-8 Nov, 2013, Berlin: Program Committee

Conferences

Past presentations, key notes etc. since 2011 are listed here.