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Ari Trachtenberg is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Boston University’s College of Engineering. He holds joint appointments in the Division of Systems Engineering and the Department of Computer Science (CAS). His research focuses on Cybersecurity (smartphones, offensive/defensive strategies), Networking (security, sensors, localization), Algorithms (data synchronization, file editing), and Error-Correcting Codes (rateless coding, feedback).
Education: PhD in Computer Science (2000) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), M.S. in Computer Science (1996) from UIUC, and S.B. in Mathematics with Computer Science (1994) from MIT.
Research Highlights: His work spans blockchain security, privacy-preserving protocols, network resilience, and distributed systems. He has developed methods for data reconciliation, secure transaction management, and covert channel detection. Notable contributions include frameworks for blockchain transaction pool synchronization and privacy-aware exposure notification systems for public health.
- Awards: Excellence in Teaching (2013, 2003), NSF CAREER Award (2002), UIUC Kuck Thesis Award (2000).
- Teaching: Courses include Cybersecurity (EC521), Advanced Coding Theory (EC727), and Software Engineering (EC327).
- Affiliations: Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing, Center for Information and Systems Engineering, Red Hat Collaboratory.
His research groups collaborate on projects involving smartphone security, IoT sensors, and decentralized systems. Recent work emphasizes scalable data synchronization and privacy-preserving technologies for healthcare and blockchain ecosystems.
