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Heather Miller

Assistant Professor, Software and Societal Systems Department

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Heather Miller is a tenure-track assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the School of Computer Science, primarily affiliated with the  Institute for Software Research. She was the co-founder and executive director of the Scala Center EPFL, where she was also a research scientist. Miller was also an assistant clinical professor in the College of Computer and Information Science Northeastern University.

Office
4128 Wean Hall
Phone
(412) 268-2748
Email
heather.miller@cs.cmu.edu

Research Interests

  • AI and ML for security
  • Applications of security and privacy
  • cloud security
  • emerging applications security
  • IoT security and privacy
  • protocol security

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