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Yinzhi Cao
ycao43@jhu.edu
Personal Website: yinzhicao.org Research Interests Web Security Network Security Mobile Security Bio Yinzhi Cao is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the Johns Hopkins University. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Northwestern University, worked at Columbia University as a postdoc, and then spent three years at Lehigh...
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Anton Dahbura
antondahbura@jhu.edu
410-516-0211
Research Interests Security Fault-tolerant computing Distributed systems Testing Bio Anton (Tony) Dahbura received the BSEE, MSEE, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Johns Hopkins University in 1981, 1982, and 1984, respectively. From 1983 until 1996 he was a researcher at AT&T Bell Laboratories, was an Invited...
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Ashutosh Dutta
Ashutosh Dutta is currently senior scientist and 5G Chief Strategist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL). He is also a JHU/APL Sabbatical Fellow and adjunct faculty at The Johns Hopkins University. Dutta currently serves as the director of Doctor of Engineering program at JHU after serving as...
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Matthew D. Green
mgreen@cs.jhu.edu
410-861-0344
Personal Website | Blog | CV Research Interests Applied Cryptography Privacy-Preserving Cryptographic Protocols Cryptographic Engineering Bio Green was formerly a partner in Independent Security Evaluators, a custom security evaluation and design consultancy. From 1999-2003, he served as a senior technical staff member at AT&T Laboratories/Research in Florham Park, NJ.
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Abhishek Jain
abhishek@cs.jhu.edu
410-516-4276
Personal Website Research Interests Cryptography Security Theoretical Computer Science Bio Abhishek is interested in all aspects of cryptography, with a present focus on secure computation and its many forms, including functional encryption and program obfuscation. His other interests include security and privacy as well as related areas of theoretical computer...
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Xiangyang Li
xyli@jhu.edu
410-516-8521
Additional Information Research and Teaching Areas Security Intelligence Analysis Human Factors in Information Security User Modeling and Intelligent Systems Xiangyang Li has been working for a long time in computer security, user modeling and intelligent systems, simulation and modeling, and knowledge discovery and engineering. He has contributed to many projects...
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Aviel Rubin
antondahbura@jhu.edu
410-516-8177
CV Research Interests Computer Security Applied Cryptography Bio Rubin is a professor of computer science at Hopkins and technical director of the JHU Information Security Institute. His primary research area is computer security, especially for electronic medical records. He also founded Harbor Labs, a company that provides technical expertise and testimony...
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Susan Hohenberger Waters
susan@cs.jhu.edu
Personal Website: cs.jhu.edu/~susan Research Interests Cryptography Computer security Bio Hohenberger earned her Ph.D. in 2006 in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.S. in 2000 in computer engineering from The Ohio State University. Before coming to Johns Hopkins, she was a post-doctoral researcher at IBM Research...
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Lanier Watkins
Lanier.Watkins@jhuapl.edu
Publications Research Interests Critical Infrastructure Protection Network Security Internet of Things Security Bio Lanier Watkins, chair of the Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals Master’s in Computer Science and Cybersecurity programs, develops innovative algorithms and frameworks to address the continuously changing needs of defending critical infrastructure networks and systems. His research...
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Lecturers
Javad Abed, PhD, CISSP, CCSP
Javad.abed@jhu.edu
Michael Jacobs, J.D.
MJacobs@crowell.com
Reuben A. Johnston, Ph.D.
reub@jhu.edu
Tom McGuire, M.S.
tmcguir3@jhu.edu
Terry L. Thompson, PhD
tthomp83@jhu.edu
Staff

Laura Henneman
lahenneman@jhu.edu
410-516-8577
Malone 157 Laura began her career at Hopkins over 19 years ago in the Purchasing department. She also worked in the WSE Center for Language and Speech Processing before joining JHUISI in 2006. She is responsible for the oversight of most of the activities in the institute but her top...
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Megan Mastrola
mmastro3@jhu.edu
Megan joined Johns Hopkins University in August 2022, and is also the communications associate for the Institute for Assured Autonomy. She is responsible for writing about research and other news, and managing the website and social media platforms. In her free time, Megan enjoys spending time with her family, cooking...
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Revelie Niles
rniles3@jhu.edu
410-516-6282
Malone 160 Revelie joined Johns Hopkins staff after working in enrollment and academic advising at Walden University for 11 years. As Academic Program Administrator, she is primarily responsible for the day-to-day running of the Master’s programs for the Computer Science Department and Information Security Institute. She assists students with the...
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Christopher Venghaus
cvenghaus@jhu.edu
410-516-4898
Malone 358 Please email support@isi.jhu.edu for computer-related issues.
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