The presenters for the 2010 Symposium have not yet been announced. Listed below are the presenters from the 2009 Information Assurance Symposium.

Andrea Di Fabio

Speaker’s Bio: Andrea Di Fabio is the Information Security Officer and Super Computing Technology Coordinator at Norfolk State University where he plays a significant role in strategic planning, policy development, deployment of information technology infrastructure and development of educational programs.

Recent accomplishments include the planning and managing the recent NSU datacenter relocation project and the delivery of a campus wide mandatory security training. Andrea completed his Master of Science in Computer Science at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA where he also earned a Bachelor in Computer Engineering while working for the University Information Systems Group.

Robert A. Willis Jr.

Speaker’s Bio: Mr. Robert A. Willis is a Lecturer with the Department of Computer Science at Hampton University. He has been with the University for twenty-three years. Six of which he served as Chair of the Department of Computer Science. Mr. Willis earned his Bachelor’s (B.S.) degree in Electronic Engineering Technology from Chapman College and Masters (M.S.) degrees in Computer Science from The College of William and Mary.

Mr. Willis has diverse research interests and has authored/co-authored several articles in his areas of research. His research interests include Software Engineering, Information Assurance, Programming Languages and Concurrency. He has taught and developed several courses in these areas. He has also mentored an impressive number of student research projects and presentations.

Mr. Willis recent service achievements are as follows: President of the Association of Departments of Computer, Information Science/Engineering at Minority Institutions (ADMI) 8/2007, Vice President (Virginia Academy of the Sciences) 2007, President (Virginia Academy of the Sciences) 2001. Vice-President of Programs. Association of Departments of Computer, Information Science/Engineering at Minority Institutions (ADMI) 7/00 – 2007

Mr. Willis is a member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon, a recipient of Hampton University’s Lindback Distinguish Teacher’s Award (1990), selected for Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers (1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004) and Elected Fellow of the Virginia Academy of Science (2006)

Daniel Ryan

Speaker’s Bio: Dr. Ryan earned his B.S. from Tulane University, M.A. from University of Maryland, M.B.A. from California State University and J.D. from University of Maryland.

As an academician, Dr. Ryan has developed curricula and taught courses in information assurance and cyberlaw for the Information Resources Management College of the National Defense University, the George Washington University, James Madison University, the University of Maryland University College, and Utica College of Syracuse University. In the private sector, he served as a Corporate Vice President of Science Applications International Corporation, and served in earlier executive roles at Booz Allen & Hamilton, Bolt Beranek & Newman, TRW, and Hughes Aircraft Company. In the public sector, he served as Executive Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence after earlier serving as Director of Information Systems Security for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, acting as the principal technical advisor for all aspects of information security, including classification management, communications security (COMSEC) and cryptology, computer security (COMPUSEC) and transmission security (TRANSEC), as well as TEMPEST, technical security countermeasures (TSCM), operational security (OPSEC), port security, overflight security, and counterimagery.

Dr. Ryan is a co-author of Defending Your Digital Assets published by McGraw-Hill and Cases and Materials in CyberLaw published by Wyndrose Technical Group. He has also published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and professional magazines on the subjects of information assurance, law, engineering and mathematics. Current research interests include quantitative risk management for information infrastructures and evidentiary issues in digital forensics.

Edward L. Jones

Speaker’s Bio: Edward L. Jones joined the FAMU CIS faculty in 1994 as a Visiting Professor from Harris Corporation. As a software engineer with Harris, he worked on software engineering technology projects, including software reuse, technology transfer, and software process. His work at Harris focused on the transfer of software technology into the workplace.

He has served as the chairman of the FAMU CIS Department since 2001, while active in teaching and research in software engineering and software testing. His seminal work on the SPRAE testing framework has been incorporated into a testing textbook [2007] and is frequently cited by leading software testing educators.

He has been a keynote speaker at an international conference on software testing. Since 2003, he has been a member of the team that developed the popular IA track. Dr. Jones earned the B.S. in Mathematics from Johnson C. Smith University, and holds the Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Thorna Humphries

Speaker’s Bio: Dr. Thorna Humphries is an associate professor of the Department of Computer Science at Norfolk State University. Prior to this appointment, she was a professor at Florida A&M University. She worked as a software engineer at Wang Laboratories, Inc. before joining the Florida A&M University faculty in 1990. She received the B.A.S. from Bennett College majoring in Mathematics. She then earned the M.S degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Cambridge, Massachusetts. After several years of working in industry and teaching, she earned the Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado.

Her research interest is directed toward the discovery of principles and developmental technologies to support the management and representation of data. Areas of interest include tools for evaluating performance on persistence object systems, object databases, pervasive computing and software engineering

Lastly, she has taught a variety of courses in the areas of programming, programming languages, software engineering, operating systems, and data communications.

Gail Finley

Speaker’s Bio: Gail Finley is an associate professor of the Department of Computer Science at the University of District of Columbia. She received her MA degree in Mathematics from Howard University. Her research areas include orbit determination, EKG analysis, programming sequence, computer graphics, programming languages, networks and information assurance.

Stephen Providence

Speaker’s Bio: Dr. Stephen V. Providence has been member of the faculty in the position of Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Hampton University since the Fall 2006. Prior to this he was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University for five years. He has given presentations at Appalachian State University and North Carolina A&T State University. He has been Co-PI on several funded research and education projects.

Dr. Providence has Ph.D. (2000), Ph.M. (1998) and M.S. (1988) degrees in Computer Science from the City University of New York and a B.A. (1986) degree from Lehman College majoring in Computer Science, Mathematics and Music.

Dr. Providence has numerous research interests, ranging from parallel digital signal processing to cellular automata applied to bio-informatics. He regularly collaborates with faculty in computer science, physics, biology, chemistry and mathematics. His current research is centered on high performance computing and parallel algorithms for investigations into novel super-fast linear algebra libraries using MPI and BLAS and he is investigating McEliece cryptosystem feasibility.

Dr. Providence is a Professional Member of the ACM Special Interest Group in Algorithms and Computation Theory, Member of the IEEE Computer Society and Signal Processing Society and a Member since 1992 of the Scientific Research Society – Sigma Xi.

Nathaniel Vaughn

Speaker’s Bio: Nathaniel Vaughn is a junior majoring in Computer Science at Hampton University.

Carl Arrington & Christopher Queen

Speaker’s Bio: Carl Arrington is currently a 2nd-year graduate student in the Department of Computer Science at Hampton University.

Speaker’s Bio: Christopher D. Queen is currently a 2nd year graduate student at Hampton University. Chris and two other Hampton University grad students work in the Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences department where they help to progress the AIM satellite mission launched on April 25, 2007. His current study of computer science focuses on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. Upon graduation in May 2009, Chris plans to work with Raytheon in Falls Church, VA in the software engineering department. Chris also attended Hampton University for undergrad where he received his B.S. degree in computer science and was made a brother the Gamma Iota chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. in 2007.

Yen-Hung Hu

Speaker’s Bio: Dr. Hu holds his D.Sc. degree from George Washington University, M.S. degree from National Chiao-Tung University, M.S. degree from Southeastern University, and B.S. degree from National Sun Yat-Sen University. He have conducted researches with colleagues and researchers at Hampton University, George Washington University, Virginia Commonwealth University, US Army CECOM, etc. His research interests are Information Security, Queue Management, Scheduling Policy, Quality of Service for Emergent Communications, and Game Programming.