Dr. Mike Burmester earned his BSc from Athens University and his PhD from Rome University. After serving as a lecturer and reader and at Royal Holloway, London University, he joined the Computer Science faculty at Florida State University as a Professor in 2000. Dr. Burmester has participated in numerous keynote and international lectures and seminars as well as receiving grant awards in the total amount of 2.2 million dollars.
He has served as Editor for several international journals and participated in numerous panels and committees including EuropePKI 2005, CNIS 2005, ACISP 2005, EC-Web 2005, the National Science Foundation, and the 8th Annual
Florida Communications Symposium. In 2003, Dr. Burmester was the Chair of the International Conference on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography and the Workshop on Critical Infrastructure Protection at FSU and Co-Chair for the Workshop on Security and Assurance in Ad Hoc networks in Orlando.
Research
Dr. Burmester's current research interests involve cryptography, information security, network security, privacy and watermarking, Public Key Infrastructures, with more than 100 publications in these areas. He is a Fellow of the IMA and a co-director of the Security and Assurance in Information Technology (SAIT) Laboratory at Florida State University.
Selected Publications
- M. Burmester and Y. Desmedt. "Is hierarchical public-key certification the next target for hackers? Communications of the ACM 47(8), pp. 68--74, 2004
- Amos Beimel, Mike Burmester, Yvo Desmedt and Eyal Kushilevitz. "Computing Functions of a Shared Secret", SIAM J. of Discrete Math., 13(3), pp. 324-345, 2000
- Mike Burmester, Yvo G. Desmedt. "A Secure and Scalable Group Key Exchange System", Information Processing Letters, 94(3) pp. 137-143, 2005
- M. Burmester, Tri van Le and A. Yasinsac. "Weathering the storm: managing redundancy and security in ad hoc networks", Proc. 3rd International Conference on Ad hoc and Wireless networks, ADHOC-NOW'04, Vancouver, British Columbia, pp. 96-107, 2004
- M. Burmester and Tri van Le. "Secure Communication in Ad hoc Networks", 5th Annual IEEE Information Assurance Workshop West Point, New York, pp. 234-241, June 2004
