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Amir Rahmati is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stony Brook University, Director of the Ethos Security & Privacy Lab, and a CISSP-certified security researcher. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2017. His research investigates emerging security and privacy threats in computer systems, with an emphasis on practical, deployable defenses. He has authored numerous publications and patents, and his work has been cited thousands of times and supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Office of Naval Research, RevBits, Samsung, Meta, NVIDIA, and IBM. His work has received multiple awards and been featured in major outlets including MIT Technology Review, the Washington Post, and Bloomberg. Artifacts from his research on the security of autonomous driving systems are held in the permanent collections of the Science Museum in London and the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and the National Academy of Inventors.