Matthew Wright
O'Sullivan Professor and Department Chair
Matthew Wright
O'Sullivan Professor and Department Chair
Education
BS, Harvey Mudd College; MS, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Bio
Matthew Wright, PhD, is a Kevin O’Sullivan Professor and the Chair of Cybersecurity at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Dr. Wright has co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed papers, including works appearing in top venues like IEEE S&P (“Oakland”), CCS, USENIX Security, NDSS, ACM CHI, INFOCOM, and numerous IEEE & ACM transactions. He won an NSF CAREER award in 2010 and has been PI on $5.8 million in externally funded projects. Within the field of cybersecurity, he has worked primarily in four topic areas: privacy and anonymity online, human factors in security, distributed systems security, and the application of AI to cybersecurity problems.
Currently Teaching
In the News
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May 28, 2025
AI expert: ‘Use common sense’ as generative AI videos become more realistic
WROC-TV talks with Matthew Wright, endowed professor and chair of RIT's Department of Cybersecurity, about the capabilities of Google VEO 3 and other generative AI video platforms.
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March 24, 2025
Deepfakes: What to Know About AI Images and Videos
CNET interviews Matthew Wright, Endowed Professor and department chair in the Department of Cybersecurity, about the fight against deepfakes. Ph.D. students John Sohrawardi and Kelly Wu also break down tips on how to spot deepfakes.
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January 27, 2025
NSF awards RIT more than $1 million to develop digital media forensics platform
A new RIT project aims to bring order to the chaotic world of digital media forensics. The project in development, led by Endowed Professor of Cybersecurity Matthew Wright, will help combat manipulated media, including deepfakes.
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March 19, 2019
RIT to develop software to detect deepfake videos