Dave Eckhardt

Dave Eckhardt is a Teaching Professor at the Computer Science Department within the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the same institution, focusing on wireless network error management and distributed systems.

His research interests span

• Operating Systems
• Computer Networks
• Wireless Communication
• Distributed Systems
• File Systems
• Network Protocols
• Adaptive Error Control
• Election Security

His work often intersects protocol design, network reliability, and security in error-prone environments.

His publications, dating from 1996 to 2002, center on wireless link error analysis, adaptive scheduling, and protocol optimization. These studies frequently explore wireless LANs, bursty packet errors, and fairness mechanisms in network resource allocation.

Notably, he has advised students on projects like

• Ben Blum: Concurrency Testing in Kernel Space
• Greg Hartman: Scalable Reactivity in Systems
• Qingyang Li: User-Level Page Faults
• Sanjay Chandrasekaran: IoT Security Gateways
• Da-Yoon Chung: OpenISR 2.0
• Adam Wolbach: Deployability of Distributed Systems
• Ajay Surie: Mobile Infrastructure
• David J. Matsumoto: Scheduling in 802.11

As a voting machine security advocate, he has contributed to public discourse on electronic voting integrity and firmware verification. His Erdős number is 5.