Cliff Zou is a professor of computer science at the University of Central Florida, where he coordinates the master’s programs in cybersecurity and privacy, as well as digital forensics. He also directs the UCF Alliance for Cybersecurity and is a member of the university’s Cyber Security and Privacy Cluster.

His research focuses on computer and network security, network modeling, and performance evaluation. Zou has contributed to the organization of numerous academic conferences and has served on program committees for events in his field. He is a senior member of the IEEE and has received multiple awards for his contributions to cybersecurity education and research.

• Ping Wang, Sherri Sparks, Cliff C. Zou. “An Advanced Hybrid Peer-to-Peer Botnet”, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 7(2), 113-127, April-June,2010.


• Cliff C. Zou, Don Towsley, Weibo Gong. “Modeling and Simulation Study of the Propagation and Defense of Internet Email Worm,” IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 4(2), p.105-118, April-June 2007.


• Cliff C. Zou, Nick Duffield, Don Towsley, Weibo Gong. “Adaptive Defense Against Various Network Attacks,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications: High-Speed Network Security (J-SAC), 24(10), p.1877-1888, October 2006.


• Cliff C. Zou, Weibo Gong, Don Towsley, and Lixin Gao. “The Monitoring and Early Detection of Internet Worms,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 13(5), p.961-974, October 2005.


• Corey McCall, Branden Maynes, Cliff C. Zou, Ning Zhang. “An Automatic Medication Self-Management and Monitoring System for Independently Living Patients”,Elsevier Journal of Medical Engineering & Physics, Vol. 35, No. 4, 2013, pp. 505-514.