Aviel David Rubin a graduate of the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...

 and Professor of Computer Science

Computer science

Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...

 at Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...

, Technical Director of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins, Director of ACCURATE

ACCURATE

ACCURATE was established in 2005 by a group of computer scientists, psychologists and policy experts to address problems with electronic voting...

, President and co-founder of Independent Security Evaluators and an expert in systems and networking security. In 2002, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the USENIX

USENIX

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 Association for a two-year term.

Rubin is credited for bringing to light vulnerabilities in Premier Election Solutions (formerly Diebold Election Systems) Accuvote electronic voting

Electronic voting

Electronic voting is a term encompassing several different types of voting, embracing both electronic means of casting a vote and electronic means of counting votes....

 machines. In 2006 he published a book on his experiences since this event.

External links

• Avi Rubin's JHU Home Page
• http://avirubin.com/
• Avi Rubin's Blog
• Avi Rubin's research papers