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.

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.

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.

Dr. Claude Turner is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science at Bowie State University. Prior to his appointment at Bowie, he taught at a number of other universities, including Fordham University, City University of New York and Pace University. Dr. Turner earned his Bachelors (B.E.) and Masters (M.E.) degrees in Electrical Engineering from The City College of The City University of New York. He earned his doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York for research in bandwidth management in computer networks.

Dr. Turner has diverse research interests and has authored/co-authored several articles in his areas of research. His research interests include Information Assurance and Security, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Communications Science, Computer Engineering, Network Engineering, Signal Processing, Expert Systems, Bioinformatics, Artificial Intelligence, and Time Series Analysis. He has taught and developed several courses in the Information Assurance and Security area, including Fundamentals of Computer and Network Security, Computer Ethics, Wireless Security, Cryptography and Application Security.

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.