Manuel Egele Receives The 2020 Early Career Research Award
Dr. Manuel Egele, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Co-director of the Boston University Secure Systems Lab, is the recipient of the 2020 Early Career Research Excellence Award. This award celebrates the significant, recent, high-impact research achievements of exemplary tenure-track faculty who are within 10 years of receiving their Ph.D.
Dr. Egele’s research spans all areas of software security, with a focus on security in embedded systems (IoT) and mobile systems security and privacy. His work has been recognized through a variety of awards and grants. He has received two Best Paper Awards (DIMVA 2019, ASIACCS 2018), a Distinguished Paper Award (NDSS 2011), the Junior PI Award of the Austrian Scientists in Northern America (AScINA) network (2019), and a Google Research Award (2019). Dr. Egele is also the PI on a $1.2M ($800,000 at BU) NSF grant titled “SaTC: CORE: Medium: Collaborative: Taming Memory Corruption with Security Monitors” and is the PI on a $750,000 ONR grant entitled “In-Situ Malware Containment and Deception through Dynamic in-Process Virtualization.”
In addition to awards and grants, Dr. Egele has been featured in various news sources for his expert opinion on issues such as security issues in the era of IoT and how to create protective passwords. He also serves on the technical program committees of all big-four security conferences: he is the program committee chair of RAID 2020 and serves as associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS).