Vitaly Shmatikov

Vitaly Shmatikov is a professor of computer science at Cornell Tech and the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science. Before Cornell, he worked at the University of Texas at Austin and SRI International. His research areas include digital privacy, computer security, and security and privacy issues in machine learning.

Research by Shmatikov, his students, and collaborators received the Caspar Bowden PET Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies three times; Test-of-Time Awards from the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, and the ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science; as well as several outstanding and distinguished paper awards, most recently from USENIX Security and EMNLP.

Shmatikov obtained his Ph.D. in computer science and M.S. in engineering economic systems from Stanford University.