Draft:Prateek Mittal

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Declined by DoubleGrazing 48 days ago. Last edited by DoubleGrazing 48 days ago. Reviewer: Inform author.

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Comment: The sources are all primary and as such unable to establish notability per WP:GNG. It isn't obvious how the subject would satisfy WP:NACADEMIC either (and I don't think the ACM award alone suffices); if that is being claimed, please provide clear evidence that at least one of the criteria 1-8 is met. DoubleGrazing (talk) 06:18, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

Comment: In all three sources, the name is spelled 'Prateek', not 'Pratheek', so I will move this to the correct title (incl. capitalising the last name). DoubleGrazing (talk) 06:15, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

Prateek Mittal is an Indian-American computer scientist and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Princeton University. He is known for his pioneering contributions to safeguarding internet privacy and security. In 2023, Mittal received the prestigious ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for his foundational work in this field..^[1]

Early Life and Education

Mittal received his B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati in 2006. He then pursued graduate studies in the United States, earning an M.S. in 2010 and a Ph.D. in 2012, both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign^[2]

Career and Research

After completing his doctoral studies, Mittal joined the faculty of Princeton University in 2013 as an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering. He was promoted to associate professor in 2019 and full professor in 2023.^[2]

Mittal's research focuses on designing privacy-preserving and secure systems. He leverages techniques from data science, network science, and applied cryptography to address critical challenges in this domain^[2]. Some of his notable contributions include:

Uncovering vulnerabilities in encrypted internet communication systems and developing countermeasures using multi-vantage-point domain validation^[3]
Protecting communication data and metadata to safeguard vulnerable internet users^[1]
Studying how AI-based systems can be corrupted and developing solutions using data science, network science, and cryptography.^[1]

Mittal's work has had a significant impact on real-world systems. His multi-vantage-point domain validation technology has been adopted by Let's Encrypt, leading to the secure issuance of over 2.5 billion digital certificates used by 350 million websites. He has also collaborated with organizations like the Tor Project and the Open Technology Foundation to drive societal change.^[1]

Awards and Honors^[1]

Mittal has received numerous prestigious awards for his groundbreaking research, including:

ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award (2023)
Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award
Army Research Organization Young Investigator Prize
National Science Foundation CAREER Award
Faculty research awards from Google, IBM, Intel, Facebook, Cisco, and Siemens

Publications^[2]

Mittal has published extensively in top-tier computer science conferences and journals. Some of his notable papers include:

"Bamboozling Certificate Authorities with BGP" (USENIX Security Symposium, 2018)
"MVG Mechanism: Differential Privacy under Matrix-Valued Query" (ACM CCS, 2018)
"Differentially Private Oblivious RAM" (PETS, 2018)
"Counter-RAPTOR: Safeguarding Tor Against Active Routing Attacks" (IEEE S&P, 2017)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Princeton Engineering - Prateek Mittal wins ACM Grace Hopper Award for enhancing internet privacy and security". Princeton Engineering. Retrieved 2024-09-29.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Prateek Mittal". Electrical and Computer Engineering. Retrieved 2024-09-29.
^ "Prateek Mittal". awards.acm.org. Retrieved 2024-09-29.

[:0-1] "Princeton Engineering - Prateek Mittal wins ACM Grace Hopper Award for enhancing internet privacy and security". Princeton Engineering. Retrieved 2024-09-29.

[:1-2] "Prateek Mittal". Electrical and Computer Engineering. Retrieved 2024-09-29.

[3] "Prateek Mittal". awards.acm.org. Retrieved 2024-09-29.

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