Susan Landau

Susan Landau is Professor of Cyber Security and Policy in Computer Science, Tufts University. Previously, as Bridge Professor of Cyber Security and Policy at The Fletcher School and School of Engineering, Department of Computer Science, Landau established an innovative MS degree in Cybersecurity and Public Policy joint between the schools.

Landau's research lies at the intersection of privacy, surveillance, cybersecurity, and law.  Landau has testified before Congress and frequently briefed US and European policymakers on encryption, surveillance, and cybersecurity issues. She has been a Senior Staff Privacy Analyst at Google, a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, and a faculty member at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Wesleyan University. 

Landau has served on a number of committees for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, on the National Science Foundation Computer and Information Science Engineering Advisory Board, and on the National Institute of Standards and Technology Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board, as well as editor for journals in mathematics and computer science. 

An interdisciplinary scholar, Landau has won the McGannon Book Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communication Policy Research for her book co-authored with Whitfield Diffie, Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption, the Surveillance Studies Book Prize for Surveillance or Security: The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies, the USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award, shared with Steven Bellovin and Matt Blaze, and the American Mathematical Society's Bertrand Russell Prize. 

Landau is a Guggenheim fellow, a fellow of Association for Computing Machinery and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is also an inductee into the Information System Security Hall of Fame and the Cybersecurity Hall of Fame. Landau received her BA from Princeton University, MS from Cornell University, and PhD from MIT.