Brian Levine joined the UMass Computer Science faculty in Fall 1999. He was promoted to Professor in 2010. He is the department's Undergraduate Program Director. He received his Master's and PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1996 and 1999, respectively. He received his B.S. in Applied Mathematics & Computer Science from the University at Albany in 1994. His research focuses on mobile networks, privacy and forensics, and the Internet. He has published more than 70 papers on these topics and received over 8,000 citations to these works. Brian's active funding includes awards from the National Science Foundation as PI for Trustworthy Computing (medium and small awards), NETS, GENI, and SFS programs, the Dept of Defense's capacity building program for security education, and the National Institute of Justice's Electronic Crime program. Since arriving at UMass, Brian has been the PI of research awards totaling more than $5 million, and co-PI on additional awards.

He received a CAREER award in 2002 for work in peer-to-peer networking, one of NSF's most prestigious awards for new faculty. He was a UMass Lilly Teaching Fellow in 2003 and was awarded his college's Outstanding Teacher Award in 2007. In 2008, he received the Alumni Award for Excellence in Science and Technology from the Univ. at Albany. He has served as an associate editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking since 2005. He is the TPC co-chair of ACM MobiCom 2011, TPC vice-chair of the 2011 DFRWS Annual Forensics Research conference, and TPC Chair of the 2012 DFRWS Annual Forensics Research Conference. In 2011, he was awarded his college's Outstanding Research Award.

Brian enjoys maintaining links to industry and has spent summers at Intel Research Lab (Cambridge, UK), Sprint Advanced Technology Lab (San Francisco), INRIA Sophia-Antipolis (France), Bell Labs (New Jersey), and Sun Labs (Mountain View).