Faculty Profiles
Deepak Kumar
Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Sociotechnical cybersecurity
Kumar’s research focuses on sociotechnical cybersecurity—an area of security dealing with threats at the interface of society and technology. Threats include online harassment and abuse, and mis/disinformation–and more. He measures how these threats spread online and proposes new defenses, tools, and interventions to keep Internet users safe from unwanted harms.
Capsule Bio:
Before joining UC San Diego in 2024, Kumar was a postdoctoral researcher Stanford University. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
