Dr. Fred B. Schneider joined Cornell’s faculty in the Fall of 1978 and served as Department Chair from 2014–2018. His research concerns various aspects of trustworthy systems—systems that will perform as expected, despite failures and attacks.
He also chaired the National Academies Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) study that produced the 1999 volume Trust in Cyberspace. Dr. Schneider was the founding chair of the National Academies Forum on Cyber Resilience where he has remained active in various roles. He also has served on the National Academies Naval Studies Board as well as the Pentagon’s Defense Science Board (DSB).
Dr. Schneider has received numerous awards including the National Security Agency’s (NSA) Best Scientific Cybersecurity Research Paper Award for work on verification of security properties. He was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1992), the Association of Computing Machinery (1995), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2008). He was named Professor-at-Large at the University of Tromso, Norway, in 1996 and was awarded a Doctor of Science honoris causa by the Newcastle University (based in Newcastle upon Tyne) in 2003. The U.S. National Academy of Engineering elected Dr. Schneider to its membership in 2011. The Norges Tekniske Vitenskapsakademi, Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences, named him a foreign member in 2010 and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences elected him to its membership in 2017.
EDUCATION
Stony Brook University, Ph.D., Computer Science
Stony Brook University, M.S., Computer Science
Cornell University, B.S., Engineering