Patrick Tague
Associate Teaching Professor, Information Networking Institute
Patrick Tague leads the Mobile, Embedded, and Wireless Security group at the Silicon Valley Campus of Carnegie Mellon, and the group is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon CyLab.
Tague’s research interests include wireless communications and networking; wireless/mobile security and privacy; robust and resilient networked systems; and analysis and sense-making of sensor network data. He received Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Washington as a member of the Network Security Lab and B.S. degrees in mathematics and computer engineering from the University of Minnesota. Patrick received the Yang Research Award for outstanding graduate research in the UW Electrical Engineering Department, the Outstanding Graduate Research Award from the UW Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity, and the NSF CAREER award.
Education
2009 Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Washington
2007 MS, Electrical Engineering, University of Washington
2003 BS, Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota
2003 BS, Mathematics, University of Minnesota
Affiliations
Research Interests
- Applications of security and privacy
- automotive and transportation security and privacy
- blockchain
- cryptography
- cyber physical systems security and privacy
- cyberphysical systems (CPS)
- data security and privacy
- embedded systems
- embedded systems security
- hardware security
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- IoT security and privacy
- ML and AI
- mobile and app security and privacy
- mobile systems
- network security
- privacy
- privacy enhancing technologies
- secure systems
- security of AI and ML
- smart infrastructure
- systems security
- usable privacy and security
- wireless systems
Media mentions
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
CMU hacking team defends title at MITRE cybersecurity competition
For the second year in a row, Carnegie Mellon’s competitive hacking team, the Plaid Parliament of Pwning, has taken home the top prize at the MITRE Embedded Capture-the-Flag (eCTF) cybersecurity competition.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
Phishing, fairness, and more: CyLab’s 2021 seed funding awardees
Over $350K in seed funding has been awarded to 14 different faculty and staff in seven different departments across three colleges at CMU.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
First round of Secure and Private IoT Initiative funded projects announced
CyLab’s Secure and Private IoT Initiative (IoT@CyLab) has broken ground as the first round of funded proposals have been announced. Twelve selected projects will be funded for one year, and results will be presented at the IoT@CyLab annual summit next year.
CMU Silicon Valley
CMU-SV’s Top 10 of 2018
We are counting down to the new year with CMU-SV’s top 10 of 2018, celebrating novel projects, awards, and research wins from this past year.
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jun Han pairing Iot devices by sensors
CyLab’s Jun Han discusses his research in determining how IoT devices can pair through sensing the same events in an environment.
CMU Engineering
CMU students help build BitClave’s blockchain network
CMU students worked with blockchain start-up BitClave to drive the company’s development in new directions.
MediaPost
Tague comments on the benefits of BitClave in MediaPost
ECE’s Patrick Tague explains in MediaPost that the technology powering BitClave, a decentralized search advertising platform, focuses on the idea of consumer control, privacy, and protection.
CMU Engineering
Hacking mobile games to improve security
Protecting mobile games against hackers has been challenging, and a recent study by a group of Carnegie Mellon researchers shows how much work needs to be done.