Education
Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, December 2006
Master of Science in Engineering, Computer Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology, WPAFB, OH, March 2000
Masters of Business Administration, University of Phoenix, Nellis AFB Campus, NV, December 1996
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO, May 1990
Academic Appointments
Professor, Computer Science, School of Computing, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, August 2014
Associate Professor, Computer Science, School of Computing, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, August 2011
Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology, WPAFB, OH, August 2006
Organizations and Affiliations
Faculty Advisor, USA DayZero Student Organization, 2014-Present.
Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2006-Present
Senior Member, Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), 2006-Present
Faculty Advisor, USA Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Student Chapter, 2013.
Member, Tau Beta Pi, National Engineering Honor Society, 2006-Present
Member, Upsilon Pi Epsilon, Honor Society in the Computing / Information Disciplines, 2004-Present
Member, Military Operations Research Society (MORS), 2001-2004
Professional and Institutional Service
Associate Editor, ACM Digital Threats: Research and Practice, 2018-Current.
Associate Editor, Elsevier Computers and Security, 2015-Current.
Associate Editor, Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation, 2012-Current.
Associate Editor, Journal of Computer Engineering & Information Technology, SciTechnol International Publisher of Science, Technology, and Medicine, 2013-2017.
Steering Committee, CheckMATE: Research on offensive and defensive techniques in the context of Man At The End (MATE) attack, 2021.
Steering Committee, Workshop on Software Attacks and Defeneses (SAD), 2020.
Steering Committee and General Chair, Software Security Protection and Reverse Engineering Workshop (SSPREW), 2012-2019.
Panel Reviewer, Army Research Office, 2016.
Panel Member, CISE Panel, National Science Foundation, 2015.
Program Committee, 13th International Conference on Cyber Warfare & Security (ICCWS), 8-9 March, 2018, Washington, DC, USA.
Program Committee, 12th Cyber and Information Security Research Conference (CISRC-17), 4-6 April, 2017, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.
Program Committee, 12th International Conference on Cyber Warfare & Security (ICCWS), 2-3 March, 2017, Dayton, Ohio, USA.
Program Committee, 7th IEEE Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference, 9-11 January, 2017, Las Vegas, NV, USA.
Program Committee, 14th International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST 2016), 12-14 December, 2016, Auckland, New Zealand.
Program Committee, 11th IEEE International Conference on Malicious and Unwanted Software (MALCON-2016), 18-21 October, 2016, Fajardo, Puerto Rico.
Program Committee, 6th International Conference on Ambient Computing, Applications, Services and Technologies (AMBIENT 2016), 9-13 October, 2016, Venice, Italy.
Program Committee, 11th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (AReS 2016), 31 August- 2 September , 2016, Salzburg, Austria
Program Committee, 25th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN-2016), 1-4 August, 2015, Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA.
Program Committee, 11th Cyber and Information Security Research Conference (CISRC-16), 5-7 April, 2016, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.
Program Committee, 11th International Conference on Cyber Warfare & Security (ICCWS), 17-18 March, 2016, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Program Committee, 2015 International Conference on Automation, Cognitive Science, Optics, Micro Electro Mechanical System, and Information Technology (ICACOMIT 2015), 29-30 October, 2015, Bandung, Indonesia.
Program Committee, 10th IEEE International Conference on Malicious and Unwanted Software (MALCON-2015), 20-22 October, 2015, Fajardo, Puerto Rico, USA.
Program Committee, 2015 International Symposium on Web of Things and Big Data (WoTBD 2015), 18-20 October 2015, Manama, Bahrain.
Program Committee, 10th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (AReS 2015), 24-28 August, 2015, Toulouse, France.
Program Committee, 24th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN-2015), 3-6 August, 2015, Las Vegas, NV, USA.
Program Committee, 13th International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST 2015), 21-23 July, 2015, Izmir, Turkey.
Program Committee, 6th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2015), Systems Security and Privacy Track, June 2-5, 2015, London, UK.
Program Committee, 10th Cyber and Information Security Research Conference (CISRC-15), 7-9 April, 2015, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.
Program Committee, 12th International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST 2014), July 23-24, 2014, Toronto, Canada.
Program Committee, 4th International Workshop on Privacy, Security and Trust in Mobile and Wireless Systems (MobiPST 2014), August 7, 2014, Shanghai, China..
Program Committee, The 2014 International Workshop on the Design and Performance of Networks on Chip (DPNoS 2014), August 17-20, 2014, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.
Reviewer, Security and Communication Networks Journal, 2014.
Reviewer, IEEE Communication and Information Systems Security Symposium (ICC 2013), 12 October 2013, Budapest, Hungary.
Proceedings Chair, Program Committee, 9th Cyber and Information Security Research Conference (CISRC-9), 8-12 April 2014, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.
Reviewer, 2nd International Conference on Technology, Informatics, Management, Engineering & Environment (TIME-E 2014), 19-21 August, 2014, Bandung, Indonesia..
Program Committee, 9th International Conference on Cyber Warfare & Security - ICCWS, 24-25 March, 2014, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.
Workshop Organizer, 4th Program Protection and Reverse Engineering Workshop (PPREW-4), co-located with ACSAC 2014, December 2014, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Program Committee,
5th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2014), Systems Security and Privacy Track, June 2-5, 2014, Hasselt, Belgium.
Program Committee, 8th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (AReS 2013), September 2nd - 6th, 2013, University of Regensburg, Germany.
Reviewer, 2013 2nd IEEE Conference on Control, Systems & Industrial Informatics (ICCSII 2013), 23-26 June 2013, Bandung, Malaysia.
Reviewer, Social Network Analysis and Mining, 2013.
Program Committee, International Conference on Advanced Computing, Networking and Security (ADCONS 2013), 15th - 17th December 2013, NITK Surathkal, Mangalore.
Reviewer, 3rd International Conference on Instrumentation, Control and Automation (ICA 2013), August 28-30, 2013, Bali, Indonesia.
Reviewer, Journal of Wireless Mobile Networks, Ubiquitous Computing, and Dependable Applications, 2013.
Reviewer, Computational Intelligence, 2013.
Program Committee,
11th International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST 2013), July 10-12, 2013, Tarragona, Catalonia.
Program Committee,
4th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2013), Systems Security and Privacy Track, June 25-28, 2013, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Reviewer, IET Information Security, 2013-2014.
Reviewer, IET Electronic Letters, 2013-2014.
Workshop Organizer, 3rd ACM SIGPLAN Program Protection and Reverse Engineering Workshop (PPREW 2014), co-located with POPL 2014, January 2014, San Diego, CA, USA.
Reviewer, Communication and Information Systems Security Symposium (IEEE ICC 2013), 9-13 June 2013, Budapest, Hungary.
Steering Committee, 8th Annual Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research Workshop (CSIIRW 2012), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, October 30 - November 1, 2012.
Workshop Co-Chair, 2nd ACM SIGPLAN Program Protection and Reverse Engineering Workshop (PPREW 2013), co-located with POPL 2013, January 26, 2013, Parco dei Principi Hotel, Rome, Italy.
Visiting Professor, Summer 2012, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Higher Education Research Experiences (HERE) program, Cyberspace Sciences and Information Intelligence Research Group.
Program Committee, 8th International Conference on Information Warfare (ICIW-13), Regis University, Denver, Colorado, USA, 25-26 March 2013.
Reviewer, IEEE Security & Privacy, January 2012.
Program Committee, The 50th ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE), March 29-31,
2012, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Workshop Co-Chair, Program Protection and Reverse Engineering Workshop (PPREW’12), in conjunction with 6th International Conference on Information Systems, Technology, and Management (ICISTM'12), March 28-30, 2012, Grenoble Ecole de Management, France.
Assistant Coach, ACM Programming Contest, USA/SCIS ACM Student Chapter, Fall 2011.
Reviewer, Eighth Annual IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics, September 2011.
Reviewer, 27th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, July 2011.
Program Committee, 5th International Conference on Information Warfare (ICIW-10), 8-9 April, WPAFB, OH. March, 2010.
Editor, Special Issue on Cyber Defense, Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation. September, 2009
Program Committee and Session Chair, 4th International Conference on Information Warfare (ICIW-09), Cape Town, South Africa. March, 2009.
Division Chief, Computer Science and Computer Engineering Division (CSCE), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology, WPAFB, OH. 2009 – 2010.
Requirements Working Group Chairman, Cybercraft Research Project, AFRL/RIGA. 2007 – 2009.
Session Chair, Technology and Security Track, 3rd International Conference on Information Warfare and Security (ICIW-08), Omaha, NE. April, 2008.
Program Chair, Graduate Computer Science (GCS), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology, WPAFB, OH. 2008 – 2010.
Workshop Organizer, Air Force Research Laboratory Cybercraft 2008 Spring Workshop, Air Force Insitute of Technology, WPAFB, OH, March, 2008.
Reviewer, International Journal of Network Security (IJNS), 2007 – 2010
Subject Matter Expert/Non Advocate Review, B-2 Air Vehicle Division AFMC 326 AESG/VA, 2008 – 2009.
Session Chair,Requirements Working Group, Cybercraft Fall 2007 Workshop, Rome, NY. Oct 2007.
Curriculum Chair, Software Engineering Sequence, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology, WPAFB, OH. 2006 – 2010.
Invited Talks
Theorem-Based Epileptic Seizure Prediction, USA Medical Center, Department of Neurology Grand Rounds, May 28, 2013.
Opportunities for AFIT Research and Partnership, Kittyhawk Week, sponsored by Air Force Research Laboratory, Sensors Directorate (AFRL/RY) and Kittyhawk Chapter of the Association of Old Crows (AOC), Fairborn, OH, June 5, 2008.
Experimental Framework for Randomizing White-Box Obfuscation, CACS Colloquium, Department of Computer Science, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Feb 2008.
Considering Mechanisms for Cybercraft Protection, Cybercraft Fall 2007 Workshop, Rome, NY, Oct 2007.
