Leadership
About Dean Keith Marzullo
Keith Marzullo is the Donna M. and Robert J. Manning Dean of the UMass Amherst Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS). He joined Manning CICS in 2025 after serving for nine years as dean of the College of Information (INFO) at the University of Maryland, where he led the college through a period of strategic growth, expanded academic programs and research capacity, and deepened partnerships across academia, industry, and the community.
Prior to his deanship at Maryland, Marzullo held senior roles in the federal government, including director of the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development program at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he coordinated R&D across more than 20 federal agencies. He also served as director of the Division of Computer and Network Systems at the National Science Foundation. Earlier in his career, he held faculty positions at the University of California, San Diego (where he chaired the Department of Computer Science and Engineering), the University of Tromsø in Norway, and Cornell University.
An ACM Fellow and a leader in the international iSchools organization, Marzullo currently serves on the advisory board for the National Science Foundation’s Office of International Science and Engineering. His recent research has focused on cybersecurity, privacy, and socio-technical systems that support human well-being. He earned an AB in physics from Occidental College and both an MS in applied physics and a PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University, where he developed one of the first practical fault-tolerant clock synchronization protocols for distributed systems.