David Lie is a Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Secure and Reliable Systems at the University of Toronto’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is director of the Schwartz Reisman Institute, which explores interdisciplinary research to develop transformative technologies like AI for the betterment of society. Additionally, he is an Associate Director at the Data Sciences Institute, Vector Faculty Affiliate, and Senior Fellow at Massey College, as well as appointments in the Department of Computer Science and the Faculty of Law. David is a prominent researcher, known for his groundbreaking work on the XOM architecture, a precursor to modern trusted execution processor extensions such as Intel TDX and SGX, and AMD SEV. His work on XOM earned him a best paper award at SOSP. He also developed the widely-used PScout Android Permission mapping tool, which has been downloaded over 10,000 times and cited in dozens of subsequent papers. Furthermore, David has served on numerous program committees, including OSDI, Usenix Security, IEEE Security & Privacy, NDSS, and is technical program committee chair of ACM CCS from 2024-2025.