Kevin Butler

Kevin Butler

Kevin Butler is the Arnold and Lisa Goldberg Rising Star Associate Professor of Computer Science and University Term Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the University of Florida. He is also Associate Director of the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity Research. Kevin’s research focuses on the security of computer systems, including embedded and IoT systems, firmware analysis, trustworthy computing, mobile device security and privacy, data integrity and provenance, security of financial systems, cyber-physical systems, adversarial machine learning, networking and interdomain routing security, and cloud systems security. Kevin received a National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2013 and was named International Educator of the Year within he Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering in 2017 for his work on developing global standards for securing digital financial services in the developing world. He is co-chair of the International Telecommunication’s Security, Infrastructure, and Trust Working Group as part of the Financial Inclusion Global Initiative. Kevin is technical program co-chair of SecureComm 2020 and conference chair of ACSAC 2020 and 2021; he was previously conference chair of the 2017 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, for which he received the IEEE Technical Committee on Security and Privacy’s Outstanding Community Service Award. He has published over 95 peer-reviewed articles and his work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Wired, and many other media outlets. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and ACM, and co-founder of CryptoDrop.