Gerome Miklau is an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His primary research interest is the secure management of large-scale data. This includes evaluating threats to privacy in published data, devising techniques for the safe publication of social networks, network traces, and audit logs, designing database management systems to implement security policies, and theoretically analyzing information disclosure. He received an NSF CAREER Award in 2007 and won the 2006 ACM SIGMOD Dissertation Award. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 2005. He earned Bachelor's degrees in Mathematics and in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1995.