Brian Levine joined the UMass Computer Science faculty in Fall 1999. He is an Associate Professor and the department's Undergraduate Program Director. He received his Master's and PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1996 and 1999, respectively. He received his B.S. in Applied Mathematics & Computer Science from the University at Albany in 1994. His research focuses on mobile networks, privacy and forensics, and the Internet, and he has published more than 60 papers on these topics. Brian's active funding includes awards from the National Science Foundation as PI for Trustworthy Computing, CRI, NETS, GENI, and SFS programs, DARPA's Disruption Tolerant Networking program, and the Nation Institute of Justice Electronic Crime program.

He received a CAREER award in 2002 for work in peer-to-peer networking, one of NSF's most prestigious awards for new faculty. He was a UMass Lilly Teaching Fellow in 2003 and was awarded his college's Outstanding Teacher Award in 2007. In 2008, he received the Alumni Award for Excellence in Science and Technology from the Univ. at Albany. He has served as an associate editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking since 2005.

Brian enjoys maintaining links to industry and has spent summers at Intel Research Lab (Cambridge, UK), Sprint Advanced Technology Lab (San Francisco), INRIA Sophia-Antipolis (France), Bell Labs (New Jersey), and Sun Labs (Mountain View).