Matt Blaze

Matt Blaze, Ph.D., is professor of law at Georgetown Law and professor of computer science at Georgetown University. For more than 25 years, Professor Blaze’s research and scholarship has focused on security and privacy in computing and communications systems, especially as we rely on insecure platforms such as the internet for increasingly critical applications. His work has focused particularly on the intersection of this technology with public policy issues. For example, in 2007, he led several of the teams that evaluated the security of computerized election systems from several vendors on behalf of the states of California and Ohio. Blaze left the after 14 years at the University of Pennsylvania in 2018 for Georgetown University, where he is the McDevitt Chair of Computer Science and Law. At the University of Pennsylvania Blaze was an associate professor of computer science. Princeton University - Ph.D., Computer Science Princeton University - M.A., Computer Science Columbia University - M.S., Computer Science Hunter College, The City University of New York - B.S.