About me

I am a member of the teaching faculty in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and the associate director of the Digital Forensics Lab at UMass.

View my curriculum vitae.

• liberato@cs.umass.edu
• +1 413 545 3061
• Computer Science Building, Room 318
• Office Hours Fall 2019: TBA

In Spring 2019 I taught COMPSCI 186: Using Data Structures, COMPSCI 365: Digital Forensics, and COMPSCI 590F: Advanced Digital Forensics. I was nominated for a Distinguished Teaching award, and I won the College Outstanding Teaching award.

In Fall 2018 I taught COMPSCI 186: Using Data Structures and COMPSCI 391L: Computer Crime Law. I was nominated for a Distinguished Teaching Award.

In Spring 2018 I taught COMPSCI 365/590F: Digital Forensics and INFOSEC 690F: Fraud Detection.

In Fall 2017 I taught COMPSCI 190D: Using Data Structures and COMPSCI 391L: Computer Crime Law, and was a finalist for a Distinguished Teaching Award.

In Spring 2017 I taught COMPSCI 190D: Using Data Structures and COMPSCI 365/590F: Digital Forensics.

In Fall 2016 I taught COMPSCI 190D: Using Data Structures and COMPSCI 391L/591L: Computer Crime Law, and was nominated for a Distinguished Teaching Award.

In Spring 2016 I taught COMPSCI 290NW: A Networked World.

In Spring 2015 I taught CMPSCI 187: Programming with Data Structures and was nominated for a Distinguished Teaching Award.

In Fall 2014 I taught both CMPSCI 290NW: A Networked World and CMPSCI 383: Artificial Intelligence.

I taught CMPSCI 453: Computer Networking in Spring 2014.

Along with Brian Levine, I taught a course on Computer Crime Law (CMPSCI 391LI) in Fall 2011.

I taught classes on Computer and Network Security at Trinity College, Connecticut College and Wesleyan University, where I was a visiting assistant professor. I was the instructor for Architecture and Assembly Language at UMass in the summer of 2001.

In AY 2018–2019, I am one of the two advisors for first- and second-year students in the Computer Science undergraduate degree program. Students with advising questions should check with ACE for fast, in-person help. For things ACE cannot help with, please email me advising questions at csadvising@cs.umass.edu. I also serve on the Undergraduate Program Committee.

I help coordinate and administer UMass’s CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service. Eligible students are encouraged to apply!

I administer the UMass Trace Repository. Send us your data!

I have been a member of the UMass Academic Honesty Board since AY 2015.

I serve on the Executive Board of the Massachusetts Society of Professors, the labor union that represents faculty and librarians at UMass Amherst. I also serve as a Faculty Advocate for members of the bargaining unit.