Michael D. Brown is a principal security engineer at Trail of Bits and a Ph.D. student at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He works on a variety of applied and fundamental research projects focused on security-oriented software analysis and transformation. Michael's primary research interest is the development of software transformation techniques to improve the security of computing systems. 

Prior to his work in software security, Michael was on active duty for eight years in the U.S. Army where he served as a UH-60M pilot and Aviation Mission Survivability Officer. 

Michael earned his M.S. in Computer Science at Georgia Tech and his B.S. in Computer Science at the University of Cincinnati.