Prof. Justin Cappos
Associate Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
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Justin Cappos is a professor in the Computer Science and
Engineering department at New York University, who strives to provide service
to society through technology. Justin's
research philosophy
focuses on solving real world security problems in practice.
He and his students
often focus on problems in security, systems, virtualization, and
software supply chain security, with an emphasis on practical research advances
that can be used in production.
His research advances are adopted into production use by Docker, git, Python, VMware, automobiles, Cloudflare, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, IBM, Digital Ocean, and most Linux distributions. Due to the practical impact of his work, Justin was named to Popular Science's Brilliant 10 list in 2013.
I am currently recruiting talented PhD students, software engineers, research professors, and postdoctoral researchers who are interested in building and deploying real world software. Feel free to apply!
For press inquiries, please email jcappos@nyu.edu and I will respond promptly.