Cybersecurity & Data Security

Jason C. Christopher

I serve as the Acting Director of Research IT at UC Berkeley. I also manage the following platforms and services in RIT:

Secure Research Data and Computation (SRDC) Platform, providing secure, scalable, customized virtual machines, and high performance computing (HPC) for research with sensitive and protected data. The Platform serves researchers across campus, ranging in study from genomics and computational biology...

Erin Foster

Erin is the Service Lead for the UC Berkeley Research Data Management Program, providing strategic guidance and direction to support data-intensive research across campus. In this role, Erin helps researchers find practical solutions to support their data throughout the research process while also navigating emerging policy and regulatory requirements.

Rick McGeer

Rick is a Berkeley PhD from EECS who's done extensive work in industrial research and startups in Cloud Computing, Distributed Systems, Computer Networking, and Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits He's particularly interested in democratizing access to computing systems and data.

Rachel Funk Fordham

Rachel Funk Fordham is a Research IT Domain Consultant and a PhD student at the Goldman School of Public Policy. Her work with Research IT centers around data transfer, data security, and broadening access to campus-supported research infrastructure. Her academic research focuses on evaluating policy interventions that either exacerbate or ameliorate political inequality in the United States.

Mark Yashar

Research IT / BRC Domain Consultant and HPC User Support.

Empowering Secure Research at Berkeley: How SRDC is Enabling Data-Driven Discovery

December 4, 2025
Catherine Wang

As research data becomes increasingly complex and regulated, UC Berkeley’s Secure Research Data and Computing (SRDC) Platform and service have become an essential part of the campus research ecosystem. Made possible by funding from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, the Division of Undergraduate Education, and Berkeley IT, SRDC is developed and maintained by Research IT (Christopher et al., 2022). SRDC provides a secure, high-performance environment for...

Navigating Research Data Security

October 2, 2025

Navigating Research Data Security

October 14, 11am-12pm (on Zoom)

Register: Via Zoom

Your research is important, and we are here to help keep it safe and secure. Join the Information Security Office and...

Cybersecurity for Researchers

April 18, 2024
Catherine Wang

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

1pm via Zoom

Registration

Your research is important and we are here to help keep it safe and secure. This brown bag session will focus on secure campus tools and services that Research IT and Berkeley IT offer to researchers, tips on navigating campus security processes, and cybersecurity best practices for keeping your research and research subjects safe. You will hear from Allison...

Amy Neeser

As the Consulting + Outreach Lead in Research IT at UC Berkeley, I coordinate the consulting efforts across the Data Management and Research Computing programs to offer a holistic approach to data and computation. I have experience working with data across the research lifecycle and my research interests include equity in STEM, interdisciplinary and open digital scholarship, innovative uses of technologies in academic environments, and critical digital literacy. I also facilitate Research IT's community, partnership, and outreach programs.

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Noah Baker

Noah is a recent MPH graduate in Epidemiology and Biostatistics and is headed to UCSF's BMI PhD program. His research is focused on modeling and predicting disease, with projects in East Africa and California. As a Domain Consultant, Noah works with the clinical data collection tool REDCap and the Secure Data Research Compute (SRDC) infrastructure. He has interests in epidemiological/healthcare big data, HPC utilization, and machine learning.