Faculty
2023: ACM Fellow
2019: Karl-Heinz Beckurts Prize
2018: IEEE Fellow
2018: Honorary Doctorate
2017: NSA Cybersecurity Research Award
2017: IEEE Golden Core Award
2017: CNIL-INRIA Privacy Award
2014: ERC Synergy Grant
2014: IEEE Outstanding Community Service Award
2011: IEEE Outstanding Community Service Award
2009: MIT TR35
2009: ERC Starting Grant
2008: IBM Faculty Award
2007: Fellow of the German Max Planck Society
2005: IBM Outstanding Achievement Award for Linking Formal Verification and Cryptography
2005: IBM Research Division Award for contributions to Web Services Security
2004: Microsoft Award for outstanding research in privacy enhancing technologies
2004: IBM Outstanding Achievement Award for contributions to Enterprise Privacy Architectures
2002: VDI Diploma Thesis Award
2001: Scholarship of the DFG graduate studies program ”Quality Guarantees for Computer Systems”
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Michael Backes is founding director and CEO of the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security. His current research focuses on innovative methods for the protection of personal data, especially in medicine, as well as on trustworthy methods for machine learning and on universal solutions for software and system security. In recent years, he has had a significant international impact on the scientific field of cybersecurity. His research results are documented in more than 300 publications in the leading international journals and conference proceedings. His research has been awarded with scientifically renowned prizes, in particular with the ERC Synergy Grant as the highest endowed EU research prize. He was the first German researcher to receive the international MIT TR35 Award. This prize is awarded interdisciplinary, to the world's best researchers under 35 years of age, whose achievements will have a "dramatic impact" on the world. Director Michael Backes, as of today, is the youngest member of the Academy of Engineering Sciences "acaTech" and is regularly listed in rankings as one of Germany's most important IT personalities. As one of Germany's digital minds, he was honored by former Federal Minister Johanna Wanka. He holds an honorary doctorate by the Université de Lorraine and is a Fellow of the IEEE. In 2019 he was awarded the Karl-Heinz Beckurts Prize and in 2023, he was appointed ACM Fellow.
NDSS
Annual Network and Distributed System Security SymposiumAnnual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium
ACSAC
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2019)
CCS
ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security
CCS
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2019)
IJCAI
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
SP
Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy, May 2019
SP
40th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP '19)S&P 2019
NDSS
Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS) Symposium 2019Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium
NDSS
Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium
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