Carl Gunter
Professor of Computer Science
Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison
Areas of Expertise
Security, networks, programming languages, and software engineering.
Biography
Dr. Gunter received his BA from the University of Chicago in 1979 and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1985. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Cambridge in England before joining the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in 1987. He joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2004 where he is a professor, Director of the Illinois Security Lab, member of the Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security executive committee, and member of the Information Trust Institute Steering Committee. He does research and teaches at UIUC in his areas of technical expertise: security, networks, programming languages, and software engineering. His work includes contributions to the foundations of programming languages, the design of functional and object-oriented programs, languages and models for networks and security, and software engineering. He has published over 70 papers in scientific forums, advised 7 Ph.D. theses, and authored an MIT Press textbook on the semantics of programming languages.
Dr. Gunter has acted as a technical consultant for a number of companies, including AT&T, Oki Electric, Lucent Technologies, and Intertrust. He has also provided legal advising and acted as an expert witness in the areas of fraud, contract, patent, and copyright. He has acted as a principal investigator on numerous research grants, including grants from the Army, Navy, DARPA, NSF, Cisco, Microsoft, NEC, and SAIC. In 2000, he founded Probaris Technologies, a security technology company in Philadelphia, where he served as director, chief scientific advisor, and software architect. He is the author of a number of pending patents.
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Contact Information
Office
4304 Siebel Center
Mailing Address
Department of Computer Science, Siebel Center
201 N. Goodwin
Urbana, IL 61801
Phone
(217) 244 1982
Fax
(217) 265 6738