Prateek Mittal

      Professor
      Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
      Associated Faculty, Department of Computer Science
      Associated Faculty, Center for Information Technology Policy
      Princeton University

      Email: pmittal@princeton.edu
      Twitter: @prateekmittal_

Links: [About Me] [Publications] [Open Positions]

Research Interests

I am broadly interested in privacy-preserving and secure systems. My current interests include the domains of privacy enhancing technologies (such as anonymous communications, statistical data privacy), adversarial machine learning, and Internet/network security. My research draws on techniques from data science, network science/complex networks, distributed systems, and applied cryptography. Please see my publications page for more details.

News: Distinguished Alumni Award, Indian Institute of Technology at Guwahati, 2024
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) ECE Alumni Award, 2024
ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, 2023 (awarded in June 2024)
Interim Director, Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP), 2022-2023
Director of Undergraduate Studies at Princeton, 2021, 2022
Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies, Runner Up, 2022
Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies, Runner Up, 2021
Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies, Runner Up, 2020
Facebook Systems for ML Research Award, 2020
Princeton Engineering Commendation List for Outstanding Teaching, 2019
ARO Young Investigator Prize (YIP), 2018
ONR Young Investigator Award (YIP), 2018
Princeton University's E. Lawrence Keyes, Jr./Emerson Elec. Co. Faculty Award
Princeton Engineering Commendation List for Outstanding Teaching, 2018
IBM Faculty Award, 2017
Bell Labs Prize Finalist, 2017
Princeton Engineering Commendation List for Outstanding Teaching, 2017
Google Faculty Research Award, 2017
Princeton Innovation Fund Award, 2016-2017
Intel Faculty Research Award, 2016-2017
National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2016
Google Faculty Research Award, 2016
Cisco Faculty Research Award, 2016
Princeton Engineering Commendation List for Outstanding Teaching, 2016
Co-chairing the USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet FOCI, 2016

Teaching

Security and Privacy --- ECE 574, Fall 2024.
Information Security --- COS/ECE 432, Spring 2022.
Designing Secure Systems --- ELE 476, Fall 2014.

Professional Activities

Editorial Board, Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2015-present
Steering Committee, USENIX Security and AI Networking Summit (ScAINet)
Program co-chair, USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet FOCI 2016
Program co-chair, Workshop on Hot Topics in Privacy Enhancing Technologies HotPETs 2013, 2014.

Program committee member, Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium PETS 2021.
Program committee member, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy S&P 2020.
Program committee member, USENIX Security Symposium SEC 2019.
Program committee member, Network and Distributed System Security Symposium NDSS 2018.