Department of Computer Science NCAE-R Program

The University of Virginia Department of Computer Science is a National Center of Excellence in Research (NCAE-R). The Department of Computer Science has a very strong program in cybersecurity research. The program includes twelve faculty involved in cybersecurity research. These faculty include:

• Jack Davidson, Professor of Computer Science
• David Evans, Professor of Computer Science
• Lu Feng, Associate Professor of Computer Science
• Matheus Ferreira, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
• Ferdinando Fioretto, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
• Wajih Ul Hassan, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
• Hyojoon Kim, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
• Wei-Kai Lin, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
• Mohammad Mahmoody, Associate Professor of Computer Science
• Yixin Sun, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
• Ashish Venkat, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
• Tianhao Wang, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
• Shangtong Zhang, Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Some current and recently completed cybersecurity research projects include:

• CICI: UCSS: Helix++: Securing Open Science Platforms, NSF, PI: Jack Davidson, Co-PIs: Jason Hiser,  Anh Nguyen-Tuong, 08/01/2021–07/31/2024, $498,021.
• CCRI: Planning: Towards Building a Community Data Infrastructure for Cybersecurity Research, NSF, PI: Jack Davidson, 10/ 01/2020–09/30/2022, $100,000.
• P-CORE: Privacy Enhanced Coordinated Enterprise Defense via Temporal and Topological Representation Learning, DARPA, PI: Jack Davidson, Donald Brown, and Malathi Veeraraghavan, 05/08/18–05/07/2023, $10,030,445.