Associate Dean for Academic Programs, SCI; Professor

Email: adamlee@cs.pitt.edu
Office: 6111 Sennott Square
Mailbox: 329
Telephone: 412-624-8416
Website: https://2020.cs.pitt.edu/~adamlee

Dr. Adam J. Lee joined the Department of Computer Science in the fall of 2008. He received the MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2005 and 2008, respectively. Prior to that, he received his BS in Computer Science from Cornell University.

Dr. Lee’s research interests lie at the intersection of the computer security, privacy, and distributed systems fields. He is particularly interested in trust negotiation and distributed proof construction approaches to authorization, which can be used to facilitate secure interactions across multiple security domains while still preserving each individual’s privacy and autonomy.

Dr. Adam J. Lee is currently an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh, where he previously held the position of Assistant Professor (2008-2014). Prior to joining the University of Pittsburgh, he received the MS (2005) and PhD (2008) degrees in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and received his BS in Computer Science from Cornell University (2003).

Dr. Lee’s research interests lie at the intersection of the computer security, privacy, and distributed systems fields. Dr. Lee’s research has been supported by the NSF and DARPA, and he is an NSF CAREER award recipient (2012). For more information, please see https://2020.cs.pitt.edu/~adamlee.

Research Interests

  • Research interests lie at the intersection of computer security, privacy, and distributed systems fields