Andrew Myers: Short Biography

Andrew Myers is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 1999.

His research interests include computer security, programming languages, and distributed and persistent objects. His work on computer security has focused on practical, sound, expressive languages and systems for enforcing information security. The Jif programming language makes it possible to write programs which the compiler ensures are secure. The Polyglot extensible compiler framework is now widely used for programming language research.

Myers is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, a College of Engineering Abraham T. C. Wong '72 Excellence in Teaching Award and a James and Mary Tien Excellence in Teaching Award, a George M. Sprowls award for outstanding Ph.D. thesis from MIT, the Cornell Provost's Award for Distinguished Scholarship, the SIGPLAN 2009 Most Influential POPL Paper award for a paper in POPL 1999, and Best Paper awards for papers in SOSP 2001 and SOSP 2007.

Myers is currently on the editorial boards of ACM Transactions on Computer Systems and the Journal of Computer Security. He has served on the editorial board of ACM Transactions on Information and System Security and has been program chair of the IEEE Security and Privacy Symposium and the IEEE Symposium on Computer Security Foundations. He has also served on more than 25 other conference program committees.