UC Irvine team wins National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition
Cyber@UCI CCDC is first UC student group to earn top honors at championship
By Brian Bell, UC Irvine
An eight-member team of University of California, Irvine students won first place in the recent National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, defeating opponents from the University of Virginia (a three-time national champion) and Dakota State University in the tournament finals.
The NCCDC, the largest college-level cyber defense contest in the United States, was the culmination of several weeks of regional matches among cybersecurity student teams from nearly 200 colleges and universities across the country… UC Irvine’s competitors were selected from the membership of Cyber@UCI, the university’s cybersecurity club.
“I couldn’t be prouder of UC Irvine’s Cyber@UCI CCDC team for their performance in this year’s National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition,” said Alfred Chen, UC Irvine professor of computer science and the team’s faculty advisor and coach. “Our cyber competitors were up against several other universities that have an established history of success in this event, so to see our team come out on the very top is highly rewarding.”
Headed by Akshay Rohatgi, a second-year computer science major, Cyber@UCI’s CCDC team included Kristen Chung, a third-year informatics major; Andy Gu, a first-year computer science major; Dhruv Kandula, a second-year computer science major; Jacob Lee, a fourth-year computer science major; Eric Liu, a fourth-year computer engineering and mathematics major; Steven Ngo, a second-year Ph.D. student in software engineering; and Christopher Young, a first-year computer science major.
Learn more in an article published by UC Irvine News.