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Matthew Smith
Professor at University of Bonn
Matthew Smith is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Bonn and a member of the Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics (FKIE).12 His research primarily focuses on usable security and privacy, emphasizing the human factors in IT security and privacy systems. He is particularly interested in how these systems can be made more user-friendly for developers and administrators, with a special focus on integrating AI to assist them.1
Smith has published extensively in top venues such as IEEE S&P, ACM CCS, USENIX Security, and others. He has received several awards, including the Innovation Award of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and Google Security and Privacy Research Awards. In 2016, he was awarded an ERC Starting Grant for his work on the frontiers of usable security and privacy.1 Additionally, he is involved in projects like the AIxCC DARPA Grand Challenge, which aims to automate software security processes.1
Beyond academia, he is a co-founder and scientific advisor of Code Intelligence, a company that offers AI-assisted software security testing.13
