About the Author
AVIEL D. RUBIN, Ph.D., is a professor in the department of Computer Science at the Whiting School of Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University and technical director of the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute.
He is also a co-founder and President of Independent
Security Evaluators, a computer security consulting firm.
Rubin is an election judge in Baltimore County and the director of ACCURATE, A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable, and Transparent Elections,
funded by the National Science Foundation.
Besides Brave New Ballot, Rubin has authored several other books, including
Firewalls and Internet Security, second
edition (with Bill Cheswick and Steve Bellovin, Addison Wesley,
2003), White-Hat Security Arsenal (Addison Wesley, 2001), and Web
Security Sourcebook (with Dan Geer and Marcus Ranum, John Wiley &
Sons, 1997).
His work has been covered by 60 Minutes, CNN, and NPR, and by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, and other publications.
In January, 2004 Baltimore
Magazine name Rubin a Baltimorean of the Year for his work in
safeguarding the integrity of our election process, and he is
also the recipient of the 2004 Electronic Frontiers Foundation
Pioneer Award. Rubin has a B.S, ('89), M.S.E ('91), and
Ph.D. ('94) from the University of Michigan.
He lives in Owings Mills, Maryland.