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Aviel D. Rubin (Avi)

June 25, 2000

My day as an election judge in the Maryland primary on September 12, 2006.
My book: Brave New Ballot: The Battle to Safeguard Democracy in the Age of Electronic Voting, available at Amazon.com.
My BLOG.
I am the director of the new NSF ACCURATE center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable and Transparent Elections.
Cracking RFID chips. My web page on e-voting security issues.
Independent Security Evaluators: the company I founded with former graduate students.

Education Let's go blue!

I received my B.S. (89), M.S.E. (91), and Ph.D. (94) in Computer Science from University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. My dissertation title was Nonmonotonic Cryptographic Protocols (322k). My advisor was Peter Honeyman at the Center for Information Technology Integration.

Work

I am Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, and I have an appointment as the Technical Director of the Hopkins Information Security Institute. Here is my work page.

Prior to joining the faculty at Johns Hopkins, I worked in the Secure Systems Research Department at AT&T Labs - Research . My work there was in the area of cryptography, network security, Web security and secure Internet services. Before AT&T, I worked at Bellcore (now Telcordia) in Applied Research. Here is the Bellcore alumni page.

Hobbies

My favorite hobby is playing with my kids. After that is sailing with my wife, playing soccer, and playing tennis. I like to play pool every chance I get. I have a pool table in my living room, and I have been practicing hard for a couple of years. I enjoy golf too, especially all that hiking in the woods I get to do looking for my ball. I'm pretty much a sports nut and will play or watch just about anything, especially Michigan sports. I like to play the piano, and if nobody is around, I sometimes sing. If people are around, once they hear me sing, usually pretty soon, there's nobody around, so it works well. I used to be into chess, and I could probably get into it again, if I ever find the time, and a chess partner who I can beat on a regular basis. I don't enjoy losing. I exercise almost every day, and I just don't feel the same if I can't do something active.