Charlie Miller

Dr. Charlie Miller is a distinguished security engineer at Cruise where he designs and implements cybersecurity features of their autonomous vehicles. Prior to Cruise, Dr. Miller was at the National Security Agency, Twitter’s information security team, and the autonomous vehicle security teams at Uber and Didi Chuxing. He also has experience in embedded security and has done research in the fields of laptop battery security as well as near field communications (NFC) of cellular phones. Dr. Miller has a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Notre Dame. Named “one of the most technically proficient hackers on Earth” by Foreign Policy, Dr. Miller has found countless vulnerabilities in a number of Apple products and is known as the first hacker to remotely exploit the iPhone and the first Android phone. He has won the “Super Bowl” of computer hacking, the annual Pwn2Own competition four times. Dr. Miller has extensive automotive security expertise and demonstrated that a variety of Fiat Chrysler vehicles, including the 2014 Jeep Cherokee, could be remotely hacked from anywhere in the country and he could control the radio, brakes, wipers, transmission, acceleration, and even the steering of the target vehicle. The demonstration of these vulnerabilities led to the recall of 1.4M vehicles.