Prateek

Mittal

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research interests: Secure and privacy-preserving communication systems, including domains of privacy-enhancing technologies, trustworthy social systems, and Internet/network security. Research draws on techniques from computer networks and distributed systems, large-scale machine learning, complex networks/network science and applied cryptography.

Prateek Mittal named ACM distinguished member

Group photo of the researchers on campus grounds. — Princeton researchers have squelched a major internet security threat by working with top industry organizations to close a loophole in the world’s website credential system. Pictured, from left: Mihir Kshirsagar, Prateek Mittal, Grace Cimaszewski, Henry Birge-Lee, Jennifer Rexford. Photo by Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy

Internet researchers reach beyond academia to close major security loophole

Crowd of people at a conference — In a series of conferences, the DeCenter has convened top federal regulators, experts in human rights, engineering, public policy, economics and ethics to identify and refine topics for research.

White paper maps the course of blockchain research

Portrait of Mittal. — Prateek Mittal. Photo by Olga Kolleeny

Prateek Mittal wins ACM Grace Hopper Award for enhancing internet privacy and security

A person (face not visible) wearing a white lab coat and blue disposable gloves holds a square lab plate in their left hand. Their right hand holds a pair of tweezers which they are using to pick up one of several small green plants on the plate. — Jonathan Conway, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering, received an innovation grant for the project “Engineering symbiotic plant-microbe interactions for sustainable agriculture.” Photo by Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy

Since 2008, innovation funds have fostered research in AI fairness, sustainable agriculture, drug discovery and more

Tech expert Arvind Narayanan takes helm at joint technology-policy center

Professor writes on white board while talking with grad student.

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Improving human health, energy systems, computing and communications, and security

Prateek Mittal