About

Robert J. Joyce is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering department at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where he also received his Ph.D. Formerly, Robert was a malware researcher in the machine learning research group at Booz Allen Hamilton. Robert's research focuses on aggregating and labeling malware datasets, studying antivirus detections, and statically analyzing malware.

Research interests

Malware datasets, malware labeling, static malware analysis, malware clustering, applications of data science and machine learning to malware analysis.

Teaching interests

Malware analysis, Cybersecurity, Data science, Assembly language, Introductory programming, Machine learning, Cryptography, Algorithms

Education

  • Ph D, Computer ScienceUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore County (2024)
    Investigating Antivirus Scan Results as a Source of Features and Labels for Machine Learning
  • MS, Computer ScienceUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore County (2020)
    Evaluating Automatic Malware Classifiers in the Absence of Reference Labels
  • BS, Computer ScienceUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore County (2018)