Computing & Security
As computational platforms have advanced to benefit society in myriad ways, so has the need to protect people, finances and property from cyberattacks and other forms of digital malfeasance. Our cybersecurity center is renowned for its interdisciplinary research and scholarship in multiple areas involving privacy and security. UMIACS is also a leader in computer vision, 3D audio, and emerging areas of security research that involve machine learning and quantum cryptography. Much of this activity takes places in the multiple centers and several large interdisciplinary labs that UMIACS supports.
The Maryland Cybersecurity Center (MC2) is a unique, multidisciplinary research and education powerhouse focused on theoretical and applied cryptography, data-driven security, human-computer interaction and security, network and wireless security, machine learning and security, blockchain and cryptocurrency security, and programming languages security.
Featured News
Fighting Deepfakes, Shallowfakes and Media Manipulation
Nirupam Roy is developing a tool that can help verify the authenticity of audiovisual recordings.
$1M NSF Award Supports Reimagining Cryptography in a Post-Quantum World
Jonathan Katz, Dana Dachman-Soled and Gorjan Alagic are developing a framework for cryptographic systems that can weather increasingly powerful quantum…
Solving Challenges in the Intermittent Computing Domain
New faculty member Milijana Surbatovich is exploring research at the intersection of programming languages, system security, and computer architecture.