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

JosĂ© A. DomĂnguez
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.


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
Senior IT Security Risk & Compliance Analyst
University of Oregon
Expertise: Cybersecurity Policy,SOC, Risk management.

Saran Venugopal
TSOC Engineer
Department of Computer Science
Expertise: Cybersecurity,Cloud Security, Security Engineering, SOC.

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.



