Robin Gandhi

Biography

Dr. Gandhi is a Charles W. and Margre H. Durham Distinguished Professor of Cybersecurity at the College of Information Science and Technology, University of Nebraska at Omaha. He serves as the Associate Dean for Research, Technology and Facilities in the college since Fall 2023. He previously served as the Director of the School of Interdisciplinary Informatics from Fall 2020 to Spring 2023. He received his Ph.D. in Information Technology from The University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2008. His research interests are in the areas of software security engineering, requirements modeling and analysis, data preservation for scientific workflows, and system certification and accreditation. Since the security of systems is a design problem, his work focuses on developing and assessing models that promote problem-solving in security engineering activities. He has designed courses and training materials that promote a culture of software security engineering in the development processes. His efforts have brought software security engineering, as part of a larger systems certification perspective, to the forefront of the US federal assessment and authorization processes for IT systems. He also serves as a member of the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) board, and is the Associate Editor for the National Cyber Watch Cybersecurity Skills Journal (CSJ). In his spare time, he loves to go on bike rides with his kids and explore new trails.