Prateek
Mittal

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research interests: Secure and privacy-preserving communication systems, including domains of privacy-enhancing technologies, trustworthy social systems, and Internet/network security. Research draws on techniques from computer networks and distributed systems, large-scale machine learning, complex networks/network science and applied cryptography.

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Affiliations

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Electrical and Computer Engineering

Improving human health, energy systems, computing and communications, and security