Bio

Owen Arden is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2017 from Cornell University. His research develops languages and protocols that make it easier to build systems with strong security guarantees. Previously he worked as Global Network Vulnerability Analyst for the National Security Agency, and in 2007 received a National Intelligence Meritorious Unit Citation. He was a recipient of the NDSEG fellowship in 2011 and was awarded an NSF CAREER grant in 2018. His research has been recognized at CIDR’13 (Best Paper), CCS’17 (Best Paper finalist), CSF’22 (Distinguished Paper), and DSN’24 (Distinguished Artifact). He served as a member of the DARPA ISAT study group from 2020-2024.

Grants

• Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation (NSF CAREER Award), Building Secure Decentralized Applications with Trusted Hardware and Blockchains, 2018-2023, $510,767.
• Co-Principal Investigator, IARPA HECTOR Project, PASCAL: Programming Architecture for Secure Cryptographic AppLications, 2019-2024, $15,477,510 (Original direct award: $864,699; Distributed: $147,531).

Awards and Honors

• Member, DARPA ISAT 2020–2024
• Distinguished artifact award, DSN 2024: "Decentagram: Highly–Available Decentralized Publish/Subscribe Systems"
• Distinguished paper award, CSF 2022: "Applying consensus and replication securely with FLAQR"
• Best Paper finalist, CCS 2017: "Nonmalleable Information Flow Control"
• Best Paper, CIDR 2013: "StatusQuo: Making familiar abstractions perform using program analysis"
• NDSEG Fellowship. National Defense Science and Engineering Fellowship. 2011–2014. Funded by Office of Naval Research.
• National Intelligence Meritorious Unit Citation. Office of the Director of National Intelligence. 2007