Michael Locasto

Michael Locasto

Dr. Michael E. Locasto is an I3P (Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection) Fellow and Visiting Research Assistant Professor at George Mason University. He was previously a Fellow at the Institute for Security Technology Studies (ISTS) at Dartmouth College. He graduated magna cum laude from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) with a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science. Dr. Locasto also received an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University, serving as a CS Department Preceptor during the 2005/2006 academic year.

He seeks to understand why it seems difficult to build secure systems and how we can get better at it. His research explores methods for applying machine intelligence to a variety of security mechanisms, especially ways to make intrusion defense systems automatic, correct, and adaptive. His current work focuses on methods of structured fault injection, threat modeling, and debugging patterns. His research interests outside of information security include the development of radically new computing systems based on active memory structures.