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Faculty Credentials : Spring 2008
Computer Science


1. Rekha Bhowmik (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned
Other Qualifications
 
  • BE (CIVIL) BUILDING SCIENCE & TECHOLOGY -- UNIVERSITY OF ROORKEE (ROORKEE, INDIA)(1979)
  • ME (CIVIL) BUILDING SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY -- UNIVERSITY OF ROORKEE (ROORKEE, INDIA)(1981)
  • PHD COMPUTER SCIENCE -- INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, DELHI(1988)

2. David S. Burris (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned
Other Qualifications
 
  • BS PHYSICS & MATHEMATICS -- SOUTHWEST TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY(1969)
  • MA PHYSICS -- SOUTHWEST TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY(1972)
  • PHD COMPUTER SCIENCE -- TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY(1976)

  • Professional Certifications Institute for the Certification of Computer Professionals: Certified Systems Programmer, Certified Software Engineer, Certified Computer Programmer, Certified Computing Professional. Member InfraGard FBI/Homeland Security University Articulation Coordinator: presentations (2008) to Legislative Budget Board, meeting of Chief Academic Officers of Texas Colleges to establish the following programs:Online Articulation, Reverse Transfer, Joint Admissions, Cooperative Advisement, Time Compressed Degree Plans
3. Lei Chen (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned
Other Qualifications
 
  • BENGR COMPUTER SCIENCE -- NANJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, CHINA(2000)
  • PHD COMPUTER SCIENCE & SOFTWARE ENGR -- AUBURN UNIVERSITY, ALABAMA(2007)

  • Computer Science 24+
  • 7+ years Graduate Research on Networks and Information Security
  • Vodafone US-Foundation Research Fellow 2006-2007 (Auburn University); two other funded schools in the U.S.: UC-Berkeley and UIUC
  • Ming Yang, Nikolaos Bourbakis, Monica Trifas, and Lei Chen, "Multimedia Information Security - Cryptography and Steganography", Applied Cryptography for Cyber Security and Defense: Information Encryption and Cyphering, IGI Global (to be published in 2009, Editors: Hamid R. Nemati and Li Yang)
  • Lei Chen, Wen-Chen Hu, Ming Yang, and Lei Zhang, "Applied Cryptography in E-mail Services and Web Services", Applied Cryptography for Cyber Security and Defense: Information Encryption and Cyphering, IGI Global (to be published in 2009, Editors: Hamid R. Nemati and Li Yang)
  • Wen-Chen Hu, Yanjun Zuo, Naima Kaabouch, and Lei Chen, "A Technological Perspective of Mobile and Electronic Commerce Systems", E-Commerce Trends for Organizational Advancement: New Applications and Methods (Advances in Electronic Commerce series), IGI Global, to be published in 2009
  • Wen-Chen Hu, Yanjun Zuo, Lei Chen, and Chyuan-Huei Thomas Yang, "Adaptive Mobile Web Browsing Using Web Mining Technologies", Business Web Strategy: Design, Alignment, and Application, Information Science Reference, Nov. 10, 2008. ISBN-13: 978-1605660240 (Editors: Latif Al-Hakim and Massimo Memmola)
  • Wen-Chen Hu, Hung-Jen Yang, Lei Chen, and Ruchitha Deshmukh "Web Content Adaptation for Internet-Enabled Mobile Handheld Devices", Proceedings of the Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium (MICS 2009), Rapid City, South Dakota, April 17-18, 2009
  • Guillermo A. Francia, III, Ming Yang, Monica Trifas, and Lei Chen, "Applied Image Processing to Multimedia Information Security", 2009 International Conference on Image Analysis and Signal Processing (IASP' 09), Linhai, Zhejiang, China, April 11-12, 2009
  • Wen-Chen Hu, Yanjun Zuo, Lei Chen, and Anusha Gopalakrishnan,"Contemporary technologies and platforms for electronic and mobile commerce system construction", Proceedings of the 41th Annual Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium (MICS 2008), 15 pages, La Crosse, Wisconsin, April 11-12, 2008.
  • Lei Chen; Chung-wei Lee, "The Effects of Mobility and Redundancy on Wireless Video Streaming over MANETs", Advanced Information Networking and Applications - Workshops, 2008. AINAW 2008. 22nd International Conference on , vol., no., pp.949-953, 25-28 March 2008
  • Daniela Marghitu, Lei Chen, and Jody Burks, "Technical, Pedagogical, Cultural and Social Research Study of a Traditional and Distance Learning Information Technology Minor: An Auburn University Case Study", Integrated Design & Process Technology Symposium, San Diego, CA, June 25-30, 2006
  • Lei Chen, Chung-wei Lee, and Wen-Chen Hu, "Gene Intrusion on a Society of Hill-Climbers", Proceedings of the 44th Annual ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE), Melbourne, Florida, Mar. 2006
  • Lei Chen, Chung-wei Lee, and Jyh-haw Yeh, "Density-based Multipath Secure Communication over Mobile Ad Hoc Networks" Proceedings of the 44th Annual ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE), Melbourne, Florida, Mar. 2006
  • Lei Chen; Chung-wei Lee, "Neighbor Stability Routing in MANETs", Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2005 IEEE , vol.4, no., pp. 1964-1969 Vol. 4, 13-17 March 2005
  • Lei Chen, and Chung-wei Lee, "Multi-level Secure Video Streaming over SRTP", Proceedings of the 43rd Annual ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE), Kennesaw, Georgia, Mar. 2005.
4. David Christian Collins (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned
Other Qualifications
 
  • BBA GENERAL BUSINESS -- SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY(1998)
  • BS COMPUTING SCIENCE-INFO SCIENCE -- SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY(2003)
  • MS COMPUTER AND INFO SCIENCE -- SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY(2005)

  • Computer Science 24+
  • Attended several professional forensic training courses including EnCase, FTK, and Linux forensics
  • Developed XFT, a forensic tool for the Xbox game console
  • Lead winning team of the 2007 DC3 Forensic Challenge
  • Developed the curriculum for undergraduate digital forensics courses including Introduction to Digital Forensics, Hardware Forensics, and Network Forensics
  • Attended a 5 day boot camp on Penetration Testing - 2008
  • Paper on Xbox game console forensics accepted for publication in the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics, 2009
5. Peter A. Cooper (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned
Other Qualifications
 
  • BS SOCIAL SCIENCE/EDUCATION -- OPEN UNIVERSITY, ENGLAND(1984)
  • DIPED STATISTICS -- UNIV OF LONDON(1987)
  • DIPED STATISTICS -- UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, ENGLAND, INSTITUTE OF ED.(1987)
  • MA HIGHER/ADULT EDUCATION -- UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, COLUMBIA(1990)
  • PHD HIGHER/ADULT EDUCATION -- UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, COLUMBIA(1993)

  • Statistics 21
  • Computer Science 24+
  • Curriculum and Instruction 12
  • Thesis Supervisor. Southwest Baptist University College of Business M.A. in Nursing Administration. 1993 - 1996
  • Director, Sam Houston State University Center of Excellence in Digital Forensics
  • Director of Academic Computing, Southwest Baptist University. 1988 - 1996. Included Systems Design and Development, Management and Administration, as well as Assurance, Security and Forensic evaluation.
  • Curriculum Development and planning Consultancy 2004-2009, including the design and implementation of the first private coeducational College of Engineering and Computer Science in Saudi Arabia. Design included administrative structures, curriculum, personnel qualifications, classroom and laboratory designs and technology infrastructure.
  • Dr. Cooper has been awarded two grants from the Bureau of Justice Assistance totaling over $500,000 and one grant from the US Department of Justice valued at just under $1 million for projects directly related to digital forensics.
6. Ken Terry Hartness (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned
Other Qualifications
 
  • BS COMPUTER SCIENCE -- TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY(1985)
  • MS COMPUTER SCIENCE -- TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY(1987)
  • PHD COMPUTER SCIENCE -- UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS(2004)

  • Artificial Intelligence 12
  • Database 9
  • Two years as a programmer for Lockheed ESC (NASA contractor) working on real-time embedded systems programming.
  • Data mining (CS 544) builds on database and artificial intelligence knowledge; I have had 12 graduate hours related to this foundational material, plus research in artificial intelligence.
  • Artificial Intelligence and computer education: "Robocode: Using games to teach artificial intelligence" by K. Hartness, The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges 21(4), 2004.
  • Artificial intelligence, user interfaces, collaborative work: "Coaching asynchronous teams for undergraduate programming projects" by K. Hartness, ISECON 2007.
7. Jiahuang Ji (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned
Other Qualifications
 
  • BS MACHINE BUILDING -- HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY(1976)
  • MS COMPUTER SCIENCE -- NANJIN UNIVERSITY(1983)
  • PHD COMPUTER SCIENCE -- UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON(1990)

8. Svetlana V Kouznetsova (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned
Other Qualifications
 
  • MA MATHEMATICS -- MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY(1993)
  • PHD APPLIED MATHEMATICS -- WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY(2000)
  • MS COMPUTER SCIENCE -- WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY(2004)

  • Computer Science 24+
  • Mathematics 24+
9. Timothy J Mc Guire (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned
Other Qualifications
 
  • BS MATHEMATICS -- LETOURNEAU COLLEGE(1977)
  • MS MATHEMATICS -- COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY(1979)
  • PHD COMPUTER SCIENCE -- TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY(1991)

  • Computer Science/Engineering 24+
  • Mathematics 24+
10. Karon Niederhofer Murff (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned
Other Qualifications
 
  • BBA FINANCE -- SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY(1983)
  • MBA BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION -- SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY(1990)
  • PHD CRIMINAL JUSTICE -- SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY(2007)

  • Director of the Institute for the Study of Violent Groups (2008/9)
  • Certified Public Accountant
  • Certified Fraud examiner
  • Certified Internal Auditor
  • Her dissertation topic entitled "Digital Crime Investigation Trends in State and Local Law Enforcement" is in the area of digital forensics
  • Dr. Murff has published and earned grants in the area of digital forensics
11. Gary W. Smith (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned
Other Qualifications
 
  • BS COMPUTER SCIENCE -- TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY(1986)
  • MS COMPUTING AND INFO SCIENCE -- OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY(1990)
  • PHD COMPUTER SCIENCE -- TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY(1998)

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