Our cybersecurity programs are led by a dynamic team of faculty experts, each specializing in a variety of critical fields. These programs are further strengthened by a robust network of industry leaders and community partners. Additionally, the University of Oregon’s Computer Science department is proud to be a founding member of the Oregon Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (OCCoE), reinforcing our commitment to enhancing security and resiliency of cyber infrastructure across the state of Oregon.

Affiliated Faculty

Reza Rajaie

Professor & Department Head

Department of Computer Science

Expertise: Networking, Internet Measurement, Networked Systems, Cybersecurity

Jose Dominguez

José A. Domínguez

Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)

University Of Oregon

Expertise: Cybersecurity

Jun Li

Professor

Department of Computer Science

Expertise: cybersecurity, networking, distributed systems, blockchain, AI for security

Joe Li

Professor

Department of Computer Science

Expertise: IoT Security and Privacy, Mobile and System Security, Applied Cryptography and Cloud Security, Data Application Security and Privacy

Zena Matilde Ariola

Professor & Associate Department Head

Department of Computer Science

Expertise: Programming Languages, Term Rewriting Systems, Lambda-calculus, Logic

Ram Durairajan

Associate Professor

Department of Computer Science

Expertise: Computer Networking, Multi-cloud Computing, Internet Data Science, Programmable Optics, Cybersecurity

Daniel Lowd

Professor

Department of Computer Science

Expertise: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

Dan Carrere

Senior Instructor: Cybersecurity

Department of Computer Science

Expertise: Critical Infrastructure, Disaster Recovery,
Unix Systems, Virtualization, Optical Networking

Bryce Newell

Assistant Professor

School of Journalism and Communication

Expertise: Data Privacy; Technology Regulation; Criminal Procedure Law; Computer Crime Law.

Thien Nguyen

Associate Professor

Department of Computer Science

Expertise: NLP for Cybersecurity

Thanh Nguyen

Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer Science

Department of Computer Science

Expertise: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Multi-agent Systems, Game Theory, Optimization

Yu Wang

Assisitant Professor

Department of Computer Science

Expertise: Data Mining and Machine Learning, Graph Machine Learning, Network Analysis, Information Retrieval

Suyash Gupta

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science

Expertise: Fault-Tolerance, Consensus, Blockchain, Byzantine Failures, Distributed System

Leland VanBrunt

Leland VanBrunt

Senior IT Security Risk & Compliance Analyst

University of Oregon

Expertise: Cybersecurity Policy,SOC, Risk management.

Saran Venugopal

Saran Venugopal

TSOC Engineer

Department of Computer Science

Expertise: Cybersecurity,Cloud Security, Security Engineering, SOC.

Kenneth Nnadi

Kenneth Nnadi

NICE Program Manager

Department of Computer Science

Expertise: Cybersecurity, SOC & Incident Response, IAM, Cloud & Network Security.

Sponsors

Our programs are supported by the following sponsors, whose contributions help us drive innovation in cybersecurity.