Below are full-time UMBC faculty and staff engaged in cybersecurity-related education, research, and professional activities across both technical and non-technical disciplines.
Computer Science
Nilanjan Banerjee
Keke Chen
Shane Donahue
Tim Finin
Richard Forno, Associate Director, UCI and CYBR GPD
Yiwen Hu
Anupam Joshi, Vice Provost, Chief AI Officer, and Director, UCI
Samuel Lomonaco
Chris Marron
Charles Nicholas
Ben Shariati
Alan Sherman, Associate Director for CAE Programs, UCI
Deepinder Sidhu
Roberto Yus
Computer Engineering / Electrical Engineering
Riadul Islam
Naghmeh Karimi
Chintan Patel (In Memoriam)
Dhananjay Phatak
Ryan Robucci
Mohamed Younis, Chair, CSEE
Information Systems
Zhiyuan Chen, Chair, IS
Aryya Gangopadhyay
Vandana Janeja, Associate Dean for Research & Faculty Development, COEIT
George Karabatis
Helena Mentis
Ida Ngambeki
Karuna Pande Joshi, Director, Center for Advanced Real-Time Analytics, CARTA
Sreedevi Sampath
Public Policy
Chul Hyun Park
Tim Brennan (emeritus)
Donald Norris (emeritus)
Education
Physics
James Franson (emeritus)
Todd Pittman
Yanhua Shih
Sebastian Deffner
Fabio Anza
UMBC DOIT Staff
UMBC’s DOIT security and infrastructure team actively supports education & research initiatives across campus in addition to providing operational cybersecurity activities to protect UMBC’s information environment.
Jack Suess, ’81 and ’92 VP Information Technology and CIO
Stacy Cahill ’01 Chief Information Security Officer
Laura Mateczun ’23, ’25 Associate Director, Digital Trust & Coordinator, UMBC Cybersecurity Clinic