Lauren Biernacki

I am a 4th year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. I am advised by Professor Todd Austin on my dissertation research to integrate integrity and confidentiality protections in computer architecture. My research interests lie broadly in hardware security, with previous work focusing on embedding moving target defenses in hardware to ensure program security. Currently, I am applying these techniques to sensitive data to ensure privacy in cloud-computing applications. I received her B.S.E. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Connecticut in 2017, my M.S.E. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2019, and am a Michigan Rackham Merit Fellow.