Daniel Lopresti received his bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College in 1982 and his Ph.D. in computer science from Princeton University in 1987.  After completing his doctorate, he joined the Computer Science Department at Brown University.  He went on to help found the Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory in Princeton, and later also served on the research staff at Bell Labs in Murray Hill.  In 2003, he joined the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Lehigh University where he conducts research examining basic algorithmic and systems-related questions in pattern recognition, bioinformatics, and computer security.

At Lehigh, Dr. Lopresti holds the Class of 1961 Chair and is co-director of the Pattern Recognition Research Lab.  He has authored over 80 publications in journals and refereed conference proceedings on a wide range of topics and holds 21 U.S. Patents.  He has served on dozens of conference program committees and as editor for six international conference proceedings, and is currently an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and the International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition.

An expert in the areas of biometric security and cybersecurity with numerous publications and NSF-funded research, Dr. Lopresti turned his attention to e-voting about a year ago when it became clear to him there were many unresolved issues threatening the safe and trustworthy conduct of our elections. He has studied the numerous published reports detailing vulnerabilities in e-voting systems, as well as the official certification reports and videotapes of certification examinations for the equipment currently approved for use in Pennsylvania. Dr. Lopresti has traveled around the Commonwealth to meet with elected representatives and government officials in Harrisburg, as well as in Northampton, Lehigh, and Bucks Counties. He organized a public debate on the e-voting issue last spring, is co-author of a recently released survey of Pennsylvania voters on the e-voting issue, and has currently initiated several research projects on the e-voting topic working with students at Lehigh University. See more on e-voting at Professor Lopresti's website.