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Deepak Kumar, PhD

Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering

Dr. Deepak Kumar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, a position he has held since July 2024.  His research focuses on computer security, online abuse, online hate and harassment, and misinformation. Deepak earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in August 2020 and completed his postdoctoral research at Stanford University from 2020 to 2023. In 2024, Deepak received one of Google’s inaugural Google Academic Research Awards for his proposal, “Automated Conversational Interventions to Curb Toxic Content in Online Communities,” in the Trust & Safety category. 

Healthcare is central to our shared humanity: it is a fabric of trust and care that quite literally keeps us alive. Unfortunately, bad actors threaten the healthcare system all the time, often crippling its ability to provide lifesaving care to people in need. To me, cybersecurity is all about how we use technology to help keep people safe – and I can't think of a more crucial setting to protect than the hospital systems themselves. I'm excited to contribute to this project to make hospital infrastructure resilient against novel and ever-evolving cyberattacks.