Faculty

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 (emeritus)
Richard Forno, Associate Director, UCI and CYBR GPD
Clement Fung
Yiwen Hu
Anupam Joshi, Vice Provost and Chief AI Officer
Samuel Lomonaco
Christopher Marron
Charles Nicholas
Ben Shariati
Alan Sherman, Acting Director, 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,
Tariqul Pavel Islam
George Karabatis
Ida Ngambeki
Karuna Pande Joshi, Director, Center for Advanced Real-Time Analytics, CARTA
Sreedevi Sampath

Political Science

Gregory Winger

Public Policy

Chul Hyun Park
Tim Brennan (emeritus)
Donald Norris (emeritus)

Education

Linda Oliva
Deborah Kariuki

Economics

Anderson Frailey

Mathematics/Statistics

Mohammadhossein Mohammadisiahroudi

Physics

James Franson (emeritus)
Todd Pittman
Yanhua Shih
Sebastian Deffner
Fabio Anza
Alexander Senichev

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