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Michael Backes | |
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Born | 7 January 1978 |
Nationality | German |
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Alma mater | Saarland University |
Thesis | 'Cryptographically Sound Analysis of Security Protocols' (2002) |
Doctoral advisor | Birgit Pfitzmann, Harald Ganzinger |
Academic work | |
Main interests | formal methods,cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies |
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Michael Backes (born 7 January 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.
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.
Backes has received a number of awards,including the following:
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