Ari Trachtenberg is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University, where he is also affiliated with the Department of Computer Science and the Division of Systems Engineering. He received his PhD and MS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his SB in Mathematics with Computer Science from MIT.
At BU, Dr. Trachtenberg is the Research and Programs Chair of the Red Hat Collaboratory core team, and is a member of the Rafik B. Hariri Institute of Computing and the Center for Reliable and Information Systems Engineering and a founding member of the Center for Information and Systems Engineering. He has taken sabbaticals at Red Hat, TripAdvisor, and MIT Lincoln Lab, and served as a visiting professor at the Technion and a distinguished scientist visitor at Ben-Gurion University, in addition to positions at HP Labs and the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth.
His research interests include, but are not limited to, security (side-channels, cloud), distributed systems (data reconciliation, cryptocurrencies), and information theory (rateless codes, feedback). He serves as the TPC co-chair for the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, and an associate editor for the ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security.
