The Maryland Cybersecurity Center (MC2) is a unique, multidisciplinary research and education powerhouse focused on theoretical and applied cryptography, data-driven security, human-computer interaction and security, network and wireless security, machine learning and security, blockchain and cryptocurrency security, and programming languages security.
The University of Maryland is the flagship campus of the state's higher education system and a top-ranked public research university.
Our advantageous location—just outside of Washington, D.C.—gives researchers the opportunity to interact with numerous federal agencies and research labs focused on cybersecurity, computer vision, geospatial visualization, big data analytics, and high performance computing.
In 2019, the Maryland Cybersecurity Center moved into the Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering, a stunning 215,000 square foot state-of-the-art facility that encourages research, collaboration and innovation.
The Iribe Center is adjacent to the university's Discovery District, a dynamic research park that includes technology leaders like Adobe, Raytheon and Capital One.
The Maryland Cybersecurity Center receives technical and administrative support from the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS), comprised of 80 faculty from eight departments who are focused on grand challenges best solved using powerful computational tools.
UMIACS supports four major centers in addition to MC2: The Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS), the Center for Automation Research (CfAR), the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CBCB), and the University of Maryland Center for Machine Learning.
