Manuel Egele

MANUEL EGELE is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University (BU) where he co-directs the Secure Systems Lab (SeclaBU). He also holds an affiliate appointment with the Computer Science department at BU. Prior to his appointment at BU, he was a Systems Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University. Before that, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the Computer Security Group of the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his M.Sc. (2006) and Ph.D. (2011) degrees in computer science from the University of Technology in Vienna. His research interests span all areas of systems and software security – in particular mobile and embedded systems security, web security, and malicious code analysis.

Dr. Egele's recent research projects revolve around the large-scale and automated analysis of embedded systems firmware that controls the computing devices in our daily lives, such as WiFi routers, surveillance cameras, or a variety of Internet of Things (IoT) gadgets. He also directs research that creates new computer architectural features to benefit software security goals. Dr. Egele serves on the technical program committees of the big-four security conferences, he was the program committee chair of RAID 2020, and serves as associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Privacy and Security. His research was recognized through a variety of awards, such as two Best Paper Awards (DIMVA 2019, ASIACCS 2018), a Distinguished Paper Award (NDSS 2011), and the Junior PI Award of the Austrian Scientists in Northern America (AScINA) network (2019).