About

Edward Raff leads Booz Allen’s machine learning research group and supports clients in developing new ML solutions. His research includes cybersecurity, adversarial machine learning, fairness and ethics, fingerprint biometrics, and high-performance computing. In his spare time, he is the author of the JSAT machine learning library. He received his BS and MS in Computer Science from Purdue University and his Ph.D. in CS from UMBC. Dr. Raff is a Nvidia Deep Learning certified instructor, and Visiting Professor at UMBC.

Research interests

Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Data Science
Artificial Intelligence
Cybersecurity
Malware Detection
Malware Analysis
Adversarial Machine Learning
High Performance Computing
Reproducibility
Biometrics
Fairness in ML
Information Retrieval

Teaching interests

Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Artificial Intelligence

Education

  • Ph D, Computer ScienceUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore County (2018)
    Malware Detection and Cyber Security via Compression
  • MS, Computer SciencePurdue University (2013)
  • BS, Computer SciencePurdue University (2012)