Professor Avi Rubin is a professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. In a special "Coronavirus Conversation" with TEDxMidAtlantic co-curator Dave Troy, he explains how the pandemic may affect our elections and helps us to understand the kinds of trade-offs that may be necessary in this difficult election year.

Avi Rubin is a professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University and technical director of the JHU Information Security Institute. Avi’s primary research area is computer security, and his latest research focuses on security for electronic medical records. Avi is credited for bringing to light vulnerabilities in electronic voting machines. In 2006, he published a book on his experiences since this event.

Prior to joining the faculty at Johns Hopkins, Avi worked in the secure systems research department at AT&T Labs. His work there was in the area of cryptography, network security, web security, and secure internet services. Before AT&T, Avi worked at Bellcore (now Telcordia) in applied research. He received a B.S. (1989), M.S.E. (1991), and Ph.D. (1994) in computer science from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

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