Matthew Wright
Brief Bio
Matthew Wright, PhD, is Professor and Chair of Cybersecurity at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Dr. Wright earned his PhD in Computer Science at UMass Amherst in 2005 and previously worked as a faculty member in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington from 2005-2016. He is the winner of a NSF CAREER Award.
Contact Info
Email: matthew.wright@rit.edu
Phone: (585) 475-5432
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-8489-6347
Address: B. Thomas Golisano College of Computer and Information Sciences
100 Lomb Memorial Dr.
Rochester, NY 14623
Research
I conduct research in cybersecurity, with a focus on adversarial machine learning, distributed systems, and usable security. In particular, I have worked extensively on anonymity systems like Tor, detection and warnings for misinformation online, password-based user authentication, peer-to-peer networks, and wireless sensor and ad hoc networks (now we might call this Internet of Things).
Click here for my reasonably well-maintained Google Scholar page.
The DeFake Project on detecting deepfakes: https://defake.app/about
The Password Alternatives Project (2012-2021)
Teaching
In Spring 2024, I will be co-teaching (with Nate Mathews and Chris Schwartz) Generative AI in Cybersecurity, a project-based class that I'm excited to launch.
I most recently a research seminar on Deep Learning Security (CSEC 720). Over the years, I have taught a course on ML for cybersecurity (Cyber Analytics and ML, CSEC 520/620), a lab-based overview course on Computer and Network Security (Information Security 1 at UT Arlington), a course on Cryptography and Network Security (Information Security 2 at UT Arlington), a course on how to build secure software systems (Secure Programming at UT Arlington), and research seminars on Internet Security, Pervasive Security, and Anonymity & Tor.
Advising
I am lucky to have taught and advised many great students over the years. For brevity, I will just list the PhD students below.
Current PhD students:
Luke Kurlandski (co-advised with Yin Pan)
Xin Miao Lin
Nate Mathews
Akib Shahriyar
John (Saniat) Sohrawardi
Kelly Wu
Graduated PhD students (6 of 8 are professors):
Payap Sirinam: Asst. Prof. at the Navaminda Kasatriyadhiraj Royal Air Force Academy
Armon Barton: Assistant Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School
Mohsen Imani: Data Scientist at Qualys, Inc.
Mahdi Nasrullah Al-Ameen: Assistant Professor at Utah State University
S M Taiabul Haque: Asst. Prof. at U. Central Missouri
Jun-Won Ho (co-advised by Sajal K. Das): Asst. Prof. at Seoul Women's University
Nayantara Mallesh: Software Engineer at Dell
Brent Lagesse (co-advised by Mohan Kumar): Asst. Prof. at U. Washington - Bothel