Biography: Somesh Jha

Somesh Jha received his B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi in Electrical Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1996 under the supervision of Prof. Edmund Clarke (a Turing award winner). Currently, Somesh Jha is the Grace Wahba Professor in the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin (Madison), which he joined in 2000. His work focuses on analysis of security protocols, survivability analysis, intrusion detection, formal methods for security, and analyzing malicious code. Recently, he has also worked on privacy-preserving protocols and adversarial ML.

Somesh Jha has published over 150 articles in highly-refereed conferences and prominent journals. He has won numerous best-paper awards. Somesh also received the NSF career award in 2005 and became an ACM fellow in 2017 and IEEE fellow in 2018.