Patrick Lincoln

Patrick Lincoln
Born 1964
Arizona
Fields Computer Science
Institutions SRI International
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stanford University
Doctoral advisor John Mitchell
Known for Computer Security, Formal verification, Computational Biology, Nanotechnology
Notable awards SRI International Fellow 2005

Patrick Denis Lincoln (born 1964) is an American computer scientist leading the Computer Science Laboratory (CSL) at SRI International. Educated at MIT and then Stanford, he joined SRI in 1989 and became director of the CSL around 1998. He previously held positions with ETA Systems, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and MCC.

Education and early career

Lincoln received a bachelor of science in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986, with the thesis "DisCoRd distributed combinator reduction, automatic parallelizing compiler" under thesis advisor Rishiyur Nikhil.[1] While pursuing that degree, he held a position in ETA Systems' Software Division from 1982 to 1983; one at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Division C-10 from 1984 to 1985. After graduation, he held a position with MCC from 1986 to 1988 in their Software Technology and Advanced Computer Architecture departments.[1]

Lincoln then attended Stanford University, from 1989 to 1992, earning a Ph.D. in computer science under advisor John Mitchell. Lincoln's doctoral dissertation was "Computational aspects of linear logic".[1][2][3]

Later career

In 1989, Lincoln joined SRI International's Computer Science Laboratory; he became its director around 1998.[1] Patrick Lincoln is the director of SRI's Computer Science Laboratory.[4] He is also the executive director of SRI's program for the Department of Homeland Security's Cyber Security Research and Development Center and director of the SRI Center for Computational Biology. He also leads numerous multidisciplinary research groups.[4]

In 2013, he was featured in the BBC Horizon episode 50x02 "Defeating the Hackers" because of his recent research focus on secure computing and "cortical cryptography". That subject is focusing on how to store a password in someone's mind that they can't directly recall; for example, by teaching them to play a song and measuring their reaction times.[5][6] Those methods are theoretically resistant to rubber-hose cryptanalysis, where a user is coerced to give up a password or other key; if you don't know a password, you can't tell it to someone.[7]

Memberships and awards

He has served on the Defense Science Board task force on Science and Technology and of the Defense Science Board task force on Defensive Information Operations. He is also a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the IEEE Computer Society.

In 2005, Lincoln was named an SRI Fellow.[8] In 2013, he and collaborators received the Best Paper Award at The 19th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC).

Selected publications

Patrick Lincoln holds over 180 scientific publications.[9] He is amongst the computer scientists whose publications' h-index is above 40.[10][11]

Patents

Dr. Lincoln holds more than 40 patents in varied fields, including computer security, high-assurance systems, advanced user interfaces, computer networking, robotics, biotechnology, and nanotechnology. A selected subset is listed below.

Computer and Information Security
High-Assurance Systems
Advanced Collaborative Multimodal User Interfaces
Computer Networking
Robotics
Biotechnology
Nanotechnology

References

External links