Matthew Wright, PhD, is Kevin O’Sullivan Professor and the 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.
I conduct research at the intersection of cybersecurity, machine learning, and human factors. Most recently, this includes our work in deepfake detection, malware classification, and traffic analysis. I have previously worked on adversarial machine learning, 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).