Carey Nachenberg
ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Engineering VI - Rooom 299
Email: climberkip@gmail.comPhone: (818) 416-0312
In addition to his adjunct professorship at UCLA, Carey Nachenberg works full time at Lyft Level 5 designing and building self-driving vehicles. Prior to his work at Lyft, Carey was one of the founding members of Google's cyber-security spin-out, Chronicle (a moonshot born and spun out of Google X). Before joining Google, Carey served as Fellow and chief engineer at cyber-security firm Symantec, where he was responsible for the architecture of Symantec’s core protection technologies and security analytics. Carey is also a published author; his first novel, a techno-thriller entitled The Florentine Deception is available in paperback, audiobook (on Audible and iTunes) and e-book formats. Carey earned his BS and MS in Computer Science from UCLA in '95.
RESEARCH AND INTERESTS
- Anti-virus and intrusion detection technology
- Autonomous vehicle development
IN THE NEWS
EDUCATION
MS (1995) UCLA
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
- UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award, 2023
- Winner of Wall Street Journal’s 2010 Technology Innovation Award (Computer Security Category)
- Named on Computer World’s 2007 “40 Under 40” list: 40 Innovative IT People to Watch, Under the Age of 40
- UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Science Alumni Service Award, 2008
COURSES
CS 32 Introduction to Computer Science II