Matthew Lentz

Matthew Lentz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Duke University, where he joined in Fall 2021. Prior to his faculty position at Duke, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at VMware Research Group and continues to collaborate with them as an Affiliated Researcher. His academic journey includes a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, where he was advised by Bobby Bhattacharjee.

Dr. Lentz's research focuses broadly at the intersection of systems, networking, and security. His current research directions include: (1) introducing new abstractions and tools for building secure, trustworthy software systems, and (2) building systems that improve performance for modern networking and machine learning applications. His work spans diverse areas including network performance measurement, security threat analytics, and privacy-preserving systems. His research often addresses practical challenges in real-world systems while maintaining strong theoretical foundations.

As an educator, Dr. Lentz teaches courses including Operating Systems (CPS 510), Introduction to Operating Systems (CPS 310), and Secure Software Systems (CPS 585). He is actively involved in mentoring graduate students, currently advising three PhD candidates: Alexander Du (with Danyang Zhuo), Chenyang Liu (with Kartik Nayak), and Luka Duranovic. His recently graduated students include Yongji Wu (now a postdoc at UC Berkeley), Yalu Cai (at CertiK), Nathan Ostrowski (at Octane Security), and Andres Montoya-Aristizabal (at Two Sigma).

Dr. Lentz has served on numerous program committees for top-tier conferences including IEEE S&P (2024-2026), MobiSys (2023-2024), MobiCom (2023-2024), CCS (2021-2022), EuroSys (2021), and HotMobile (2021). He also served as Proceedings Chair for SOSP 2023, one of the most prestigious conferences in systems research.