Deian Stefan

Deian Stefan is Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Cubist, Security & PL at UCSD. He is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UC San Diego, where he co-leads the Security and Programming Systems groups. His research lies at the intersection of security and programming languages; he is particularly interested in building secure systems that are deployed in production. He was a co-founder of Intrinsic, a runtime security startup acquired by VMware in 2019.

His work has been recognized with a Most Influential Paper award (ICFP 2022), a Cybersecurity Award for Practice (IEEE 2022), Distinguished Paper awards (POPL 2019, USENIX Security 2020, ICFP 2020, POPL 2021, IEEE Security & Privacy 2023, ASPLOS 2023), an NSF CAREER award, and a Sloan Fellowship. He received his BE and ME in Electrical Engineering from Cooper Union and an MS and PhD from Stanford, where he was supported by an NDSEG graduate research fellowship.