David A. Wagner is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Division at the University of California, Berkeley with extensive experience in computer security and cryptography. Dr. Wagner is an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow and a CRA Digital Government Fellow. Dr. Wagner was a co-designer of one of the Advanced Encryption Standard finalists, and he remains active in the areas of computer security, cryptography, and e-voting. In the past, Dr. Wagner has served as a member of the Security Peer Review Group for the SERVE Internet voting project and as a technical advisor to the ACLU Ad-Hoc Committee on Touchscreen Voting. Currently, Dr. Wagner is a member of the California Secretary of State's Voting Systems Technical Advisory Board.

Wagner received an A.B. in Mathematics from Princeton University in 1995, an M.S. in Computer Science from Berkeley in 1999, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Berkeley in 2000.