Lujo Bauer is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and of Computer Science, at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also a member of CyLab, Carnegie Mellon's computer security and privacy institute. He received his B.S. in Computer Science from Yale University in 1997 and his Ph.D., also in Computer Science, from Princeton University in 2003.
Lujo's research examines many aspects of computer security and privacy, and balances attention to the human users of systems with attention to software and algorithms. His current research topics include: studying the risks raised by our increasing reliance on AI; using AI to make us more secure, including by finding software bugs faster and by detecting attacks; and developing tools to make smart homes safer for all users.
Lujo served as the program (co-)chair for the flagship computer security conferences of the IEEE (S&P 2015), the Internet Society (NDSS 2014), and USENIX (Security 2025).