Professor David Basin zum ACM Fellow ernannt
David Basin, Professor für Informatik, wurde für seinen bedeutenden Beitrag im Bereich Informationssicherheit und formale Methoden zum IEEE Fellow ernannt.
About the ACM Fellowship
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 56 members ACM Fellows for their significant contributions in areas including computer architecture, mobile networks, robotics, and systems security. The accomplishments of the externe Seite2018 ACM Fellows underpin the technologies that define the digital age and greatly impact our lives. ACM Fellows are composed of an elite group that represents less than 1% of the Association’s global membership.
About David Basin
David Basin is a Full Professor at ETH Zurich since 2003 and holds the chair for Information Security within the Institute of Information Security at the Department of Computer Science.
He received his bachelors degree in mathematics from Reed College in 1984, his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1989, and his Habilitation from the University of Saarbrücken in 1996. His appointments include a postdoctoral position at the University of Edinburgh (1990-1991), and afterwards he led a subgroup, within the programming logics research group, at the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik (1992-1997). From 1997-2002 he was a Full Professor at the University of Freiburg in Germany.
His research area is Information Security, in particular methods and tools for building secure and reliable systems. He is Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security and of Springer-Verlag's book series on Information Security and Cryptography. He is also the founding director of ZISC, the Zurich Information Security Center, which he led from 2003-2011.