Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, Ph.D.

Cloud Technology Endowed Professorship III

Professor, Information Systems and Cyber Security

Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo has an interdisciplinary research focus in cybercrime, cybersecurity (e.g. vulnerability identification and exploitation, Blockchain), data analytics (AI in cybersecurity) and digital forensics. He joined UTSA in Fall 2016 because of UTSA’s world-class reputation and ranking in cybersecurity and digital forensics research and education. In addition to his faculty role in the UTSA Department of Information Systems and Cyber Security, he also serves as an affiliate faculty member in the UTSA Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the UTSA Texas Sustainable Energy Research Institute. 

He graduated with the Ph.D. in Information Security from Queensland University of Technology, Australia, and he worked for the Australian Government Australian Institute of Criminology (2006-2011) and the University of South Australia (2011-2016). He was also a visiting Fulbright scholar at Rutgers University’s School of Criminal Justice and Palo Alto Research Center in 2009, and a visiting scholar at INTERPOL Global Complex for Innovation in 2015. More recently in 2020, he was engaged by North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Allied Command Transformation Innovation Hub as a paid expert consultant to contribute to NATO’s Warfighting 2040 report. 

His cybercrime research has been widely cited, including in reports of the Australian Government, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, U.S. CRS Report for Congress, International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children, International Telecommunication Union, and UK Home Office. One of his published security protocols was included in two independent submissions to the IEEE 802.11 by computer scientists from Fujitsu Labs in America, and the IETF / Network Working Group by a team of computer scientists from Tropos Networks, Toshiba, Huawei, and University of Murcia. Another of his published protocol was used in the P2P solution of the Milagro TLS presented to the IETF by researchers from MIRACL Ltd in 2016. His published design principle about how session keys should be constructed in cryptographic protocols that resulted in significant benefits for their security was cited in U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology’s special publication (SP 800-56A), as well as the subsequent versions (Revision 2, 2013, and Revision 3, 2018). 

In 2019, he received the 2019 IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (Middle Career Researcher). He is the co-inventor of three U.S. patent applications on lightweight cryptographic schemes filed in 2019.