Alex Halderman is Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Michigan. His research spans computer and network security, applied cryptography, security measurement, censorship resistance, and electronic voting, as well as the interaction of technology with politics and international affairs. His recent projects include ZMap, Let’s Encrypt, and the TLS Logjam and DROWN vulnerabilities. Prof. Halderman has performed numerous security evaluations of real-world voting systems, both in the U.S. and around the world. After the 2016 U.S. presidential election, he advised recount initiatives in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania in an effort to help detect and deter cyberattacks, and in 2017 he testified to the Senate Intelligence Committee about cybersecurity threats to election infrastructure. He was named by Popular Science as one of the “brightest young minds reshaping science, engineering, and the world.”