Faculty Affiliates
David Kotz, PhD
David Kotz, PhD
Provost, and the Pat and John Rosenwald Professor in the Department of Computer Science, at Dartmouth College
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 240 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. He received his AB in Computer Science and Physics from Dartmouth in 1986, and his PhD in Computer Science from Duke University in 1991.
For more information see http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~kotz/.
He is a father of three, avid hiker, and frequent traveler (see blog).
Selected Publications
- Mishra V, Pope G, Lord S, Lewia S, Lowens B, Caine K, Sen S, Halter R, Kotz D. Continuous detection of physiological stress with commodity hardware. ACM Trans Comput Healthc. 2020 Apr;1(2):8. doi: 10.1145/3361562. PMID: 32832933; PMCID: PMC7442214. View Source
- Künzler F, Mishra V, Kramer JK, Kotz D, Fleisch E, Kowatsch T. Exploring the state-of-receptivity for mHealth interventions. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT) (Ubicomp), 3(4)#140, December 2019. doi:10.1145/3369805. View Source
- Boateng G, Motti VG, Mishra V, Batsis JA, Hester J, Kotz D. Experience: Design, development and evaluation of a wearable device for mHealth applications. The 25th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom '19); 2019 October; Los Cabos, Mexico. New York: ACM; 2012. Article 31. pp. 1- 14. View Source
- Greene E, Proctor P, Kotz D. Secure sharing of mHealth data streams through cryptographically-enforced access control. Smart Health (Amst). 2019 Apr;12:49-65. doi: 10.1016/j.smhl.2018.01.003. PMID: 31598544; PMCID: PMC6785041. View Source
- Bi S, Wang T, Tobias N, Nordrum J, Wang S, Halvorsen G, Sen S, Peterson R, Odame K, Caine K, Halter R, Sorber J, Kotz D. Auracle: Detecting eating episodes with an ear-mounted sensor. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT) (Ubicomp), 2(3), September 2018. doi: 10.1145/3264902. View Source