Peter Honeyman University of Michigan Ann Arbor

Peter Honeyman is Research Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and
Engineering at the University of Michigan. Honeyman holds the B.G.S. (with
distinction) from the University of Michigan and the M.S.E., M.A., and
Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University.

After completing doctoral studies in relational database theory under the
supervision of J.D. Ullman, Honeyman joined Bell Labs as a Member of Technical
Staff in computer systems research, later returned to Princeton as Assistant
Professor of Computer Science, joined the University of Michigan faculty in
1986 and retired in 2022.

With a focus on storage, security, networks, and mobile computing, Honeyman
was instrumental in significant software projects including Honey DanBer UUCP,
PathAlias, MacNFS, Disconnected AFS, WebCard (the first Internet smart card),
the Linux-based open source reference implementation of NFSv4, and pNFS
extensions for high end computing.

Honeyman is the author of more than 60 journal and conference papers, chaired
nine doctoral committees and served on more than 30 others, taught more than
forty undergraduate and graduate courses, chaired the USENIX Workshop on File
Systems (1992), USENIX Annual Technical Conference (1995), IEEE International
Workshop on Services in Distributed and Networked Environments (1996),
USENIX Workshop on Smartcard Technologies (1999), IFIP Smart Card Research
and Advanced Application Conference (2002), was Area Chair for Security and
Privacy at HAL 2001, and served on over sixty other program committees.

Honeyman served on the USENIX Association Board of Directors from 1996 to
2004. In 2007, he was awarded the USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award "For
his work as a mentor to so many leaders in our field." In 2016, Honeyman
and co-authors Niels Provos and Markus Friedl were awarded the USENIX
Security Test-of-Time award for their 2003 paper "Preventing Privilege
Escalation." Honeyman received the University of Michigan College of
Engineering Edward Law Emeritus Outstanding Service Award in 2025.

Honeyman is a member of USENIX, AAAS, and SIF.