is Bridge Professor in Cyber Security and Policy at The Fletcher School and the School of Engineering, Department of Computer Science, Tufts University. Landau is a leading expert in surveillence and privacy issues. She originated the understanding that the encryption conflict is over security versus security, not security versus privacy — a view now widely accepted. A well-known scholar, her book Listening In: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age was called one of the “hightlights of this season’s releases” by Nature, while Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption. co-authored with Whitfield Diffie, is considered a classic in the field and has won several awards. Landau, the author of many reesearch papers and several other books, has testified before Congress, written for the Washington Post, Science, and Scientific American, and frequently appears on NPR and BBC. She is founding director of the Tufts MS program in Cybersecurity and Public Policy. Previous to Tufts, Landau was a Senior Staff Privacy Analyst at Google and a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, and a faculty member at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Wesleyan University. She has received the 2024 Betrand Russell Prize of the American Mathematical Society, the USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award, and numerous other awards. She received a BA from Princeton, MS from Cornell, and PhD from MIT.

Landau is strongly committed to women’s success in science. Her activities have included co-creating the graduate student GREPSEC workshops in privacy and security for women and members of underrepresented groups, conceiving of and co-creating the ACM Athena Lectureship, starting researcHers, a mailing list for women computer science researchers in academia, industry and government labs and co-organizing the first MIT Celebration of Women in Math meeting. Landau received the 2008 Women of Vision Social Impact Award from the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.