Teaching

Adjunct Faculty (Comp. Sci. and Cyber Security Engineering Departments)

Upcoming (Spring 2023)
- CYSE 650 - Advanced Network Security / Attack Detection Engineering Laboratory (Arlington Campus; Spring 2023)
- ISA 564 - Security Laboratory (Main Campus; Spring 2023)
Current (Fall 2022)
- CYSE 650 - Advanced Network Security / Attack Detection Engineering Laboratory (Main Campus; Fall 2022)
- ISA 564 - Security Laboratory (Main Campus; Fall 2022)
Past
- ISA 564 - Security Laboratory (Main Campus; Spring 2020 - Spring 2022)
- ISA 562 - Information Security Theory and Practice (Main Campus; Fall 2019 - Spring 2022)
- ISA 699 - Topics in Information Security (Main Campus; Spring 2020)
- ISA 798 - Master's Thesis Project (Committee Director; Summer 2020)
- CS 797 - Connected and Automated Vehicles (Graduate Project Sponsor; Fall 2019)























Research Areas

(Defensive Cyber Security, Applied Machine Learning, ITS)

- Network and host-based adversary detection
- File-based malicious content detection
- Anonymity and Internet-based covert communication channels
 
- Radio Frequency (RF) Localization (with Bluetooth)
- ("Unconventional") Bluetooth Mesh Networking
- Smart Parking and Intelligent Transportation Infrastructure





























Industry


The MITRE Corporation (2010 to present)
        - Applied Machine Learning for Defensive Cyber use cases
        - Host and Network Instrumentation and Log analysis, Observable recovery and Detection engineering
        - DCO/IR/Security Engineering SME, Blue Team process improvement, Network-based IDS
        - SOC Automation, Formal Detection Tool Requirements Refinement and Evaluation
The Washington Post (1999 - 2009)
        - Senior Sysadmin, Web Security Admin, Reverse Proxies, BEA WebLogic, LDAP and XSLT
        - Juniper Load Balancers, NetScreen Firewalls
        - Web Application QA, Test Automation, Pre-Press System support
Cannon Architects and Engineers (1996 to 1999)
        - Network Administrator


































Students

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vita/vitae/vitarum

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