Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, PhD
Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, Information Systems and Cybersecurity
Professor and Cloud Technology Endowed Professorship
Contact
- NPB 3.356
- 210-458-6300
- raymond.choo@utsa.edu
Bio
Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo received the PhD in Information Security in 2006 from Queensland University of Technology, Australia. He currently holds the Cloud Technology Endowed Professorship at The University of Texas at San Antonio. Earlier in his career, Raymond worked for the Singapore Police Force, the Australian Government’s Australian Institute of Criminology, and the University of South Australia. He was also a visiting scholar at Australian National University’s School of Regulation and Global Governance, a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Rutgers University’s School of Criminal Justice and at Palo Alto Research Center in 2009, a visiting expert at INTERPOL Global Complex for Innovation in 2015, and an Honorary Commander, 502nd Air Base Wing, Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, from 2017 to 2019.
He spent the Fall 2025 semester with the University of Iceland as part of the Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award in Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure. He is also the founding co-Editor-in-Chief of ACM Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research & Practice, and the founding Chair of IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society’s Technical Committee on Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies. He serves as an Advisory Council Member of the Anti-Human Trafficking Intelligence Initiative (a 501(c)3 US-based nonprofit, aims to disrupt the market of human trafficking, child exploitation, and child sexual abuse material), and is an Adjunct Professor (Courtesy Appointment) at the Korea University, Singapore University of Technology and Design, and University of South Australia.
His research has been funded by agencies in the U.S. (Bureau of Justice Assistance, Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, CPS Energy, National Security Agency, National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, MITRE, LGS Innovations, and Texas National Security Network Excellence Fund), and Australia (National Health and Medical Research Council, Data to Decision CRC, South Australian Health & Royal Adelaide Hospital, National Drug Law Enforcement Research Fund, BAE Systems stratsec, Australian Research Council, and Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration Incorporated).
Research Interests
- Big data analytics, including privacy-preserving analytics
- Blockchain and distributed ledger technology
- Cybersecurity
- Digital forensics, including forensics-by-design
Degrees
- PhD Queensland University of Technology
