Prateek Mittal

Prateek Mittal is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University, affiliated with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests include Computing & Networking, Data & Information Science, and Security & Privacy. Mittal's work focuses on privacy-preserving and secure systems, with projects spanning Security and Machine Learning, Privacy and Machine Learning, and Privacy, Security, and Networked Systems. His research integrates techniques from data science, network science, distributed systems, and applied cryptography. Mittal has contributed to the design of widely-used systems such as the Tor network and the Let's Encrypt Certificate Authority.

Prateek Mittal is a professor at Princeton University with research interests in Security and Privacy, Systems and Networking, and Machine Learning. His work explores the intersection of these fields, focusing on adversarial machine learning, federated learning, and privacy risks in AI systems. Mittal's research includes analyzing federated learning through adversarial lenses, evaluating privacy risks of machine learning models, and developing frameworks for secure and robust systems. He has also investigated threats to IoT devices and privacy in decentralized networks. His contributions highlight the importance of safety alignment and secure communication in modern computing systems.