Prof. Engin Kirda
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Northeastern University
Director
Northeastern Information Assurance Institute-Boston
USA

Engin Kirda is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Northeastern University in Boston, and the director of the Northeastern Information Assurance Institute. He is also a co-founder and Chief Architect at Lastline, Inc -- a company specialized in advanced malware detection and defense. Before moving to the US, he held faculty positions at Institute Eurecom in the French Riviera and the Technical University of Vienna where he co-founded the Secure Systems Lab that is now distributed over five institutions in Europe and US. Engin's research has focused on malware analysis (e.g., Anubis, Exposure, Fire) and detection, web application security, and automated vulnerability discovery and mitigation. He co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed scholarly publications and served on program committees of numerous international conferences and workshops. In 2009, Engin was the Program Chair of the International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID), in 2010/11, Program Chair of the European Workshop on Systems Security (Eurosec), in 2012 the Program Chair of the USENIX Workshop on Large Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats, and chaired the flagship security conference NDSS in 2015. Engin will be chairing USENIX Security in 2017.