Rajendra K. Raj is a Professor of Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology, whose research focuses on the nexus of data science, distributed systems, and cybersecurity, applied to critical infrastructure protection, healthcare, and financial services. Interested in program development, quality, and accreditation, Raj has served on the Executive Committee of ABET’s Computing Accreditation Commission (CAC), including as its 2021-22 Commission Chair. From 2016-2019, he chaired CAC’s Criteria Committee, which substantially revised accreditation criteria for computing programs, including computer science, and also developed new accreditation criteria for cybersecurity. Raj previously served as a vice president of information technology at an international financial services company based in New York City, where he helped to design, implement, and manage several high-performance private-cloud infrastructures for globally distributed financial applications. Raj is a member of the ACM, ASEE, and the IEEE Computer Society. He has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Washington, Seattle.