Meet Provost Kotz

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David Kotz is the Provost, and the Pat and John Rosenwald Professor in the Department of Computer Science, at Dartmouth College. He previously served as Associate Dean of the Faculty for the Sciences, as a Core Director at the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health, and as the Executive Director of the Institute for Security Technology Studies. His current research involves security and privacy in smart homes, and wireless networks. He has published over 250 refereed papers, obtained $89m in grant funding, and mentored over 100 research students and postdocs. He is an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, a 2008 Fulbright Fellow to India, a 2019 Visiting Professor at ETH Zürich, and an elected member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Kotz has served as Provost since 2021. He recently received a one-year extension to his term and will serve through June 2025.

Kotz is a proud Dartmouth alumnus receiving his AB in Computer Science and Physics in 1986. Kotz received his PhD in Computer Science from Duke University in 1991.

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