Michael Backes
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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.
Life and career
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.
Awards and honors
Backes has received a number of awards, including the following:
- 2004: Caspar Bowden Award 2004 {{Cite web|url=https://petsymposium.org/award/winners.php|title=PET Award|website=petsymposium.org}}
- 2005: IBM Outstanding Achievement Award {{Cite web|url=https://news.microsoft.com/2004/05/28/top-research-in-privacy-enhancing-technologies-recognized-at-toronto-conference/|title=Top Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies Recognized at Toronto Conference|date=May 28, 2004|website=Stories}}
- 2007: Fellow of the Max Planck Society{{Cite web|url=https://www.mpi-sws.org/people/backes/|title=Michael Backes – MPI SWS|website=www.mpi-sws.org}}
- 2008: IBM Faculty Award{{Cite web | url=http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/dw/university/facultyawards/2008_faculty_recipients.pdf | title=2008 Faculty Award recipients | access-date=2024-05-13}}
- 2008: MIT TR35 {{Cite web|url=http://www2.technologyreview.com/tr35/Profile.aspx?TRID=790|title=Innovator Under 35: Michael Backes, 31|first=MIT Technology|last=Review|website=MIT Technology Review}}
- 2009: European Research Council Starting Grant {{Cite web | url=https://erc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/press_release/files/stg-2_list_pe.pdf | title=List of projects invited for funding (alphabetical order) | access-date=2024-05-13}}
- 2014: European Research Council Synergy Grant {{Cite web | url=https://erc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/document/file/erc_2013_syg_results.pdf | title=ERC-2013-Synergy - Grant List of selected Principal Investigators and Project | access-date=2024-05-13}}
- 2015: Member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering{{Cite web|url=https://www.uni-saarland.de/universitaet/aktuell/artikel.html|title=Professor der Saar-Uni ist jüngstes Mitglied der Deutschen Akademie der Technikwissenschaften|date=August 24, 2019|website=www.uni-saarland.de}}
- 2017: CNIL-INRIA Privacy Award {{Cite web|url=https://www.cnil.fr/en/launch-2nd-edition-cnil-inria-privacy-award|title=Launch of 2nd edition of CNIL-INRIA Privacy Award | CNIL|website=www.cnil.fr}}
- 2017: NSA Cybersecurity Research Award {{Cite web|url=https://www.nsa.gov/News-Features/News-Stories/Article-View/Article/1670263/nsas-5th-annual-best-scientific-cybersecurity-paper-competition-award-winner-an/|title=NSA's 5th Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition Award|website=National Security Agency | Central Security Service}}
- 2018: Fellow of the IEEE{{Cite web | url=https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/fellows/2019-ieee-fellow-class.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230508052556/https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/fellows/2019-ieee-fellow-class.pdf | archive-date=2023-05-08 | title=2019 Fellow Newly Elevated Fellows| website=Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) }}
- 2018: Honorary Doctorate degree of the University of Lorraine{{Cite web|url=https://factuel.univ-lorraine.fr/node/9175|title=3 questions à Michael Backes, professeur en informatique et docteur honoris causa 2018 de l'Université de Lorraine | Factuel|website=factuel.univ-lorraine.fr|date=7 September 2018 }}
- 2023: ACM Fellow{{Cite web |title=Michael Backes |url=https://awards.acm.org/award-recipients/backes_CR87113 |access-date=2024-01-26 |website=awards.acm.org |language=en}}
References
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External links
- [https://cispa.saarland/director/ Michael Backes Personal Page at CISPA]
- [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/b/Backes_0001:Michael.html/ List of publications by Michael Backes]
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