Deian Stefan Receives 2022 Sloan Research Fellowship

Deian Stefan, a CSE assistant professor, and a CNS Faculty member is part of the 2022 class of 118 Sloan Research Fellows, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced Feb. 15, 2022.

The Sloan Research Fellowships are one of the most competitive and prestigious awards available to early career researchers. The fellowships honor extraordinary U.S. and Canadian researchers whose creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments make them stand out as the next generation of leaders.

Deian Stefan received his Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford. His research interests span security, programming languages and systems. Recently, his work with collaborators has led to the development of tools to make web browsers safer, including technology that is part of the newest Firefox release.

In all, 143 faculty at the University of California San Diego have received a Sloan Research Fellowship since they were awarded first in 1955.

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