David Kotz

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Academic Appointments

  • Pat and John Rosenwald Professor, Computer Science

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

  • Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)

  • Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

  • Elected member of Phi Beta Kappa

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David Kotz is the Pat and John Rosenwald Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Dartmouth College, where he also served 15 years in administrative roles as Provost, Associate Dean, and center director.  His current research involves security and privacy in smart homes and wireless networks.  During his forty-year research career he has published over 280 refereed papers, received 13 patents, obtained $89m in grant funding, given over 200 invited lectures, and mentored over 100 research students and postdocs.  He is a AAAS Fellow, an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, and an elected member of Phi Beta Kappa.  He was a Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellow at Imperial College London (2025-26), a Visiting Professor at ETH Zürich (2019-20), and a Fulbright Fellow to India (2008-09).  He received his AB in Computer Science and Physics from Dartmouth in 1986, and his PhD in Computer Science from Duke University in 1991.

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Contact

David.F.Kotz@dartmouth.edu
603-646-1439
Engineer and Comp Science Ctr, Room 012
HB 6004

Department(s)

Computer Science

Education

  • Ph.D. Duke University 1991
  • B.A. Dartmouth College 1986

Selected Publications

  • Sina Abdollahi, Amir Al Sadi, David Kotz, Marios Kogias, and Hamed Haddadi. CAEC: Confidential, Attestable, and Efficient Inter-CVM Communication with Arm CCA. Proceedings of the IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (Euro S&P). July 2026. [Details]

  • Chixiang Wang, Weijia He, Timothy Pierson, and David Kotz. Moat: Adaptive Inside/Outside Detection System for Smart Homes. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT). ACM, September 2024. doi:10.1145/3699751. [Details]

  • Weijia He, Nathan Reitinger, Atheer Almogbil, Yi-Shyuan Chiang, Timothy J. Pierson, and David Kotz. Contextualizing Interpersonal Data Sharing in Smart Homes. Proceedings of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS). July 2024. doi:10.56553/popets-2024-0051. [Details]

  • Taylor Hardin and David Kotz. Amanuensis: provenance, privacy, and permission in TEE-enabled blockchain data systems. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems. IEEE, July 2022. doi:10.1109/ICDCS54860.2022.00023. [Details]

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International Activities

Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellow, Imperial College London (2025-26)

Visiting Professor, ETH Zürich (2019-20)

Fulbright Research Scholar, Indian Institute of Science (2008-09) 

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