Security Research - Computer Science (original) (raw)
The Security Group in theEECS Department at theUniversity of California, Berkeley studies a wide variety of topics, including cryptography, network security, usable security, and secure machine learning.
To learn more about our research, we encourage you to visit the pages of our faculty and students, linked below.
We've got great people!
Amazing alumni
- Devdatta Akhawe
- Jethro Beekman
- John Bethencourt
- Nikita Borisov
- Nicholas Carlini
- Hao Chen
- Karl Chen
- Kevin Chen
- Weikeng Chen
- Xinyun Chen
- Monica Chew
- Erika Chin
- Chia Yuan Cho
- Arel Cordero
- Weidong Cui
- Thurston Dang
- Rachna Dhamija
- Adrienne Porter Felt
- David Fifield
- Matthew Finifter
- Ian Goldberg
- Neil Gong
- Warren He
- Dan Hendrycks
- Yuncong Hu
- Grant Ho
- Sakshi Jain
- Steve Hanna
- Mobin Javed
- Noah Johnson
- Rob Johnson
- Alex Kantchelian
- Chris Karlof
- Frank Li
- Nathan Malkin
- Bill Marczak
- Michael McCoyd
- Adrian Mettler
- Brad Miller
- Mitar Milutinovic
- Pratyush Mishra
- David Molnar
- Austin Murdock
- Blaine Nelson
- Paul Pearce
- Adrian Perrig
- Rishabh Poddar
- Rebecca Portnoff
- Justin Samuel
- Naveen Sastry
- Prateek Saxena
- Ben Schwarz
- Umesh Shankar
- Richard Shin
- Jeongseok Son
- Dawn Song
- Emil Stefanov
- Cynthia Sturton
- Kurt Thomas
- Chris Thompson
- Matthias Vallentin
- Jason Waddle
- David Wagner
- Lun Wang
- Joel Weinberger
- Alma Whitten
- Ka-Ping Yee
- Jiaheng Zhang
- Wenting Zheng
We have lots of friends!
Security research at Berkeley spans a number of labs, centers, departments, colleges, and schools. You may also want to learn about (in no particular order):
- The cryptography research group
- RISELab (Real-time Intelligent Secure Explainable)
- Center for Evidence-based Security Research
- The Networking and Security Group atICSI
- Berkeley Laboratory for Usable and Experimental Security (BLUES) and theUsable Security and Privacy Group atICSI
- The Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity
- The School of Information and itsMaster's of Information and Cybersecurity
We host events!
We teach courses!
Undergraduate
- CS 161:Computer Security -s21,f20,s20,f19,s19,f18,s18,f17,s17,f16,s16,s15,s14,s13,s11,s10,f08,f05
- CS 171:Undergraduate Cryptography -s21,f19,s19
- CS 194-138:Penetration Testing ("Cyberwar") -f17
Graduate
- CS 261:Computer Security -s21,f18,f17,f15,f12,s11,f11,f09,f08,f07,f04,f02,f00,f98
- CS 261N:Internet/Network Security -s20,f16,s15,s14,f12,s12,f10,f09,s09,s08
- CS 276:Cryptography -f20,f18,f17,f16,f15,f14,s09,s06,s04,s02
- CS 294-163:Decentralized Security: Theory and Systems -f19
- CS 294-155:Law and Cryptography -f19
- CS 294-156:Advanced Topics on Secure Hardware -f18
- CS 294-144/151:Blockchain and Cryptoeconomics -s19,f18,s18
- CS 294:Advanced Cryptography -s20,f18,s18
- CS 294:Secure Computation -s16
- CS 294-101:Cutting-edge Web Technologies -s15
- CS 294-105:Empirical Analysis -f14
- CS 294-65:Privacy Technologies: From Theory to Practice -s11
- CS 294:Advanced Topics in Computer Security -s10
- CS 294-24:Privacy and Security Enhancing Technologies -f07
- CS 294:Lattices, Learning with Errors and Post-Quantum Cryptography -s20
- INFO 290-001Cybersecurity in Context -f19
For the most up-to-date list of courses, and to see what's being offered next semester, see theEECS course directory.
We'd love for you to join us!
If you would like to join Berkeley's EECS Department as a graduate student, pleaseapply to our Ph.D. program. Many Berkeley undergraduates assist in our research; if you're interested in doing research, contact our faculty members directly. We also frequently host visiting students and professors.