Security Research

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UVA’s Department of Computer Science has a rapidly growing group of faculty working in the area of cyber security, including hardware, software, operating systems, networks,  and cryptographic theory, working in close collaboration with other research groups such as the Link Lab, Software Engineering, and AI.

Security Core Faculty

Jack W. Davidson

Professor, Computer Science Director, Cyber Defense Program of Study

Jack W. Davidson is a Professor of Computer Science at UVA. He joined in 1981 after receiving his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Arizona. His research interests include compilers, computer security, programming languages, computer architecture, and embedded systems. He is the principal investigator on several ongoing grants.
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Email jwd@virginia.edu

David Evans

Professor of Computer Science

For information about me and my research, please see my web page and research group blog.
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Email evans@virginia.edu

Matheus Venturyne Xavier Ferreira

Assistant Professor, Computer Science (Joining Summer 2024)
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Email matheusventuryne@gmail.com

Ferdinando Fioretto

Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Ferdinando Fioretto works on machine learning, optimization, differential privacy, and fairness. He is a recipient of the Amazon Research Award, the NSF CAREER award, the Google Research Scholar Award, the Caspar Bowden PET award, the ISSNAF Mario Gerla Young Investigator Award, the ACP Early Career Researcher Award, and several best paper awards.
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Email fioretto@virginia.edu

Wajih Ul Hassan

Assistant Professor, Computer Science, School of Data Science

Wajih Ul Hassan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2021. His research interests are broadly in systems security, threat detection, and forensic investigation
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Email hassan@virginia.edu

Hyojoon Kim

Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Hyojoon Kim serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. His research interests lie in computer networks and distributed networked systems, with a specific focus on in-network computing, programmable networks, software-defined networking, network measurement, and network security.
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Email tcr5zr@virginia.edu

Yonghwi Kwon

Visiting John Knight Career Enhancement Assistant Professor, Computer Science
My research interests include software systems security (i.e., securing software to prevent cyber attacks), cyber forensics (i.e., recovering cyber forensic evidence from data/programs), and software engineering (software testing and reverse engineering).
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Email yongkwon@virginia.edu

Wei-Kai Lin

Assistant Professor, Computer Science
I am an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at University of Virginia. Earlier, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern University, advised by Professor Daniel Wichs. I got my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Cornell and then worked as a postdoc at CMU, both advised by…
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Email wklin@virginia.edu

Mohammad Mahmoody

Associate Professor, Computer Science

Mohammad Mahmoody's research interests include cryptography, adversarial learning, computational complexity.
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Email mohammad@virginia.edu
Phone (434) 982-2989

Yixin Sun

Anita Jones Career Enhancement Assistant Professor, Computer Science Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research interests include: Network Security and Privacy, Routing Security, Anonymity Systems, Network Attacks and Defenses I am broadly interested in network security and privacy. I joined the Department of Computer Science in January 2020 as Assistant Professor, as well as the Department of…
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Yuan Tian

Visiting Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Research interests include: Security and Privacy, Cyber-Physical System, Machine Learning, Human-Computer Interaction My research interests involve security and privacy and its interactions with system, networking, machine learning, and human-computer interaction. My current research focuses on…
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Ashish Venkat

William Wulf Career Enhancement Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Ashish Venkat is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia, where he joined after obtaining a Ph.D. from UC San Diego. His work has been published at top-tier venues such as ISCA, MICRO, ASPLOS, HPCA, IEEE S&P, and USENIX Security, and has received funding from NSF, DARPA, SRC, and Inte
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Phone (434) 243-5219

Tianhao Wang

Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Research interests include: Differential Privacy, Machine Learning Privacy
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Email tianhao@virginia.edu