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Dr. Rajendra K. Raj is a Professor of Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), whose research lies at the intersection of data science and cybersecurity as applied to critical infrastructure protection. Dr. Raj’s work has been funded by various agencies, including the NSF, NSA and Homeland Security. He helped to establish the M.S. in Cybersecurity program at RIT over 20 years ago, developing its courses in Secure Coding and Data Security & Privacy. Before joining RIT, Dr. Raj was a vice president at a multinational financial services firm, where he designed, implemented and managed high-performance private cloud infrastructures for financial applications. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Washington Seattle.
Committed to advancing the computing profession, he has held several leadership roles in ABET’s Computing Accreditation Commission (CAC), including serving as the 2021-22 Commission Chair. He previously chaired the CAC Criteria Committee that created cybersecurity accreditation criteria for bachelor's and associate degree programs. More recently, Dr. Raj co-chaired the ACM/IEEE-CS/AAAI task force that developed Computer Science Curricula 2023 (CS2023) and led the CS2023 Security Knowledge Area Subcommittee. He currently serves on the international task force of the ACM, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Digital Privacy Initiative and IFIP, which is working on the first master’s-level curricular guidelines for Digital Privacy. He is a Fellow of ABET.
