Cyber Security Research and Education Center

Directed by Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham, Louis A. Beecherl, Jr. I Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, UT Dallas' Cyber Security Research and Education Center was designated as the NSA/DHS Center for Excellence in Education in 2004, and became one of the first universities to be designated a NSA/DHS Center for Excellence in Information Assurance Research in 2008.

Over the past six years, the Center, consisting of six core professors, has generated over $16 million in research funding from AFOSR, NSF, IARPA, NGA, NASA, ONR, and NIH and over $2m in education funding from NSF and the DoD. The Center has formed close collaborations with several DFW corporations including Raytheon and Tektronix. The Center also releases Open Source Software Tools for the research and development communities.

The Center conducts research in the areas of Data and Applications Security, Programming Language Security and Network Security. It is located in The Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas located in Richardson, Texas, in the heart of the Telecom Corridor, home of the second-largest high-tech economy in the U.S.

Perform research to enhance and strengthen the security of computer systems and networks so they can withstand and survive concerted, sophisticated security attacks aimed at crippling them;

Share our research results by publishing papers in premier journals and top conferences;

Foster interaction between Government, Industry and Academia in the field of Information Assurance;

Develop and teach a strong cyber security program which includes courses for cyber-crime prevention, detection and analysis;

Initiate interdisciplinary programs integrating social sciences and information sciences;

Transfer the technologies developed at the university to commercial development efforts.