Michael Franz
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Michael Franz is an American computer scientist best known for his pioneering work on just-in-time compilation and optimisation[2] and on artificial software diversity.[3] He is a Distinguished Professor[4] of Computer Science in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (by courtesy) in the Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UCI, and Director of UCI's Secure Systems and Software Laboratory.[5][6]
Michael Franz | |
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Born | Michael Steffen Oliver Franz[1] (1964-05-01) 1 May 1964 (age 60)[1] Hamburg, Germany |
Alma mater | ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
Awards | IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award (2012); Humboldt Prize (2018); ACM Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award (2021) |
Scientific career | |
Thesis | Code Generation On-The-Fly: A Key to Portable Software[1] |
Doctoral advisor | Niklaus Wirth |
Doctoral students | Andreas Gal |
Website | www |
He is a Fellow of the AAAS,[7] a Fellow of the ACM,[8][9] a Fellow of the IEEE,[10] a Fellow of the IFIP,[11] a recipient of the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Achievement Award[2] and of a Humboldt Prize.[12][5][6] In 2021, Franz was awarded the ACM Charles P. "Chuck" Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award.[13][14]