Michael Donald Bailey

Professor
School of Cybersecurity and Privacy (SCP)
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology

About Me

I am currently a Professor in Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Cybersecurity and Privacy (SCP) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. I was honored to serve as the Inugural School Chair of the school, before returning to the Faculty full-time.

Previously, I was an Associate and then Full Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Electrical & Computer Engineering Department. While at Illinois, I was part of a large cohort of faculty, staff, and students at UIUC that do great work in security called the Security and Privacy Research Group at Illinois (SPR@I). Before that I was privileged to be a Ph.D. student, then Research Scientist, and finally an Associate Research Professor at the University of Michigan's Computer Science and Engineering Division. During graduate school, I was fortunate to be involved with Arbor Networks (now NetScout Systems, Inc.) where I was the Director of Engineering.

If you are really interested in the gory details, you are welcome to read my CV.


Teaching

Spending AY '25-'26 in Metz, France at Georgia Tech-Europe. There I am teaching:

Last semester I was honored to be teach with the really awesome Ryan Shandler:

In the past I have taught a variety of systems classes including Operating Systems, Networking, Distributed Systems, and Security. The most recent classes included:


Collaborators

Before coming to GaTech, I was blessed to have had an incredible cohort of UIUC Ph.D. students who have graduated and moved on to do some amazing things:

I was super grateful to have had the chance to work with Dr. Joshua Mason while at UIUC.

At Michigan, I had an opportunity to co-advise (as research faculty), several amazing students:


Research

My interests lie in exploring the security, performance, and availability properties of computing systems. My work seeks to both inform the development of these systems to address immediate, important societal problems as well as to fundamentally enhance our understanding of the sciences underlying computing subfields including computer systems organization, networks, and security and privacy.

Papers

(my Google Scholar Citations)

Contact Information

Email

mbailey AT gatech DOT edu

U.S. Mail Address:

756 West Peachtree Street NW
Atlanta, GA 30308-4016