Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy.

Information and system security with a focus on security in broadband networks, security for mobile computing, and security for sensor networks.

Dipl. Ing. EPFL (Computer Science) 1997, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
M.S. (Computer Science) 1999, Carnegie Mellon
Ph.D. (Computer Science) 2001, Carnegie Mellon

Carnegie Mellon, 2002 -.

Adrian Perrig is an Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, and spent three years during his PhD with his advisor Doug Tygar at University of California at Berkeley. He received his Bachelors degree in Computer Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). Adrian's research interests revolve around building secure systems and include network security, security for sensor networks and mobile applications.  More information about his research is available at: http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~adrian

Representative publications:

Adrian Perrig, Ran Canetti, J.D. Tygar, and Dawn Song,  "The TESLA Broadcast Authentication Protocol,"  RSA CryptoBytes, vol. 5 (Summer), 2002.

Adrian Perrig, Robert Szewczyk, Victor Wen, David Culler, and J. D. Tygar,  "SPINS: Security Protocols for Sensor Networks, " ACM Journal of Wireless Networks, to appear, 2002.  A preliminary version of this paper appears in Seventh Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networks (MobiCom 2001), pages 189--199, July 2001.

Adrian Perrig, "The BiBa One-Time Signature and Broadcast Authentication Protocol,"  in Proceedings of the Eighth ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS-8), pages 28--37, November 2001.