Michael Franz
Michael Franz | |
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| Born | Michael Steffen Oliver Franz 1 May 1964 Hamburg, Germany |
| Alma mater | ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| Awards | IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award (2012); Humboldt Prize (2018); ACM Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award (2021) |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | Code Generation On-The-Fly: A Key to Portable Software |
| Doctoral advisor | Niklaus Wirth |
| Doctoral students | Andreas Gal |
| Website | www |
Michael Franz is an American computer scientist best known for his pioneering work on just-in-time compilation and optimisation and on artificial software diversity. He is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (by courtesy) in the Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UCI, and Director of UCI's Secure Systems and Software Laboratory.
He is a Fellow of the AAAS, a Fellow of the ACM, a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the IFIP, a recipient of the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Achievement Award and of a Humboldt Prize. In 2021, Franz was awarded the ACM Charles P. "Chuck" Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award.