Charlie Miller is Principal Autonomous Vehicle Security Architect at Cruise Automation.   Miller started his career in security as a computer hacker for the National Security Agency for five years. Since that time he has been a consultant and worked for the computer security teams of Twitter and Uber ATC. He has won the “Super Bowl” of computer hacking, the annual Pwn2Own competition four times.

Miller has spent considerable time in the field of automotive security along with his research partner Chris Valasek. Originally he showed that with direct access to a vehicle, the physical systems of a Ford and Toyota could be controlled by an attacker. Recently, he expanded this research to show that these attacks could be done remotely. Dr. Miller demonstrated that a variety of Fiat Chrysler vehicles could be remotely hacked from anywhere in the county and he could control the radio, brakes, wipers, transmission, and even the steering of the target vehicle. The demonstration of these vulnerabilities led to the recall of 1.4 million vehicles. Dr. Miller has been featured on the Today Show, ABC World News Tonight, CNN, NPR, CNBC, New York Times, USA Today, Forbes, etc.