Alan Mislove is a professor and the senior associate dean for academic affairs in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Boston.Mislove's primary interest is distributed systems and networks, with a focus on using social networks to enhance the security, privacy, and efficiency of emerging systems. He is a core faculty member of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute, which forages partnerships with experts in industry, government, and academia worldwide. In 2023 and 2024, he served as deputy US chief technology officer for privacy in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.Mislove won the IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize for his work on understanding the role of registrars in DNSSEC deployment. His work has been funded by Amazon Web Services, the Army Research Office, the Data Transparency Lab, Facebook, Google, and the NSF. He was a recipient of the NSF Career Award in 2011, and his work has been covered by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and CBS Evening News.