Biography
Brian Levine is a Distinguished Professor in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he also serves as the Associate Dean for IT and Facilities. He co-leads the UMass Rescue Lab, and he serves as the founding Director of the UMass Amherst Cybersecurity Institute. He was named an ACM Fellow in 2020 "for contributions to network forensics, security, and privacy, and for thwarting crimes against children".
Levine has published more than 100 papers on networking and security and received over 20,000 citations to these works. He received an NSF CAREER award in 2002 for work in peer-to-peer networking. 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 University at Albany. In 2011, he was awarded the UMass College of Natural Science's Outstanding Research Award. In 2013, he was the opening keynote speaker for the USENIX SYSTOR conference. In December 2015, he was the opening keynote speaker at the Yahoo Tech Pulse conference. In 2017 he won an Infocom Test of Time Award for work in mobile systems. In 2019, he was an invited speaker at the USENIX Security conference. In 2022, he was named a UC Santa Cruz Baskin School of Engineering Distinguished Graduate Student Alumnus. In 2022, he was the sole author of a Report to Congress written on behalf of the National Institute of Justice on the investigations of internet-based crimes against children. His research has been recently covered in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.