Faculty Experience

• Assistant Professor (August 2008 – Present), School of Information Arts and Technologies, University of Baltimore.
  Teach “COSC 433: Network Security” and “COSC 490: Practicum in Information Technology”.
• Lecturer (July 2000 – August 2003), Department of Computer Science, Stephen F. Austin State University.
  Taught “CSC 102: Computer Science Principles”, “CSC 121: Introduction to Information Processing Systems”, and “CSC 101: Introduction to Computing”.

 Other Experience

• Research Assistant (September 2003 – May 2008), Center for Secure and Dependable Systems, University of Idaho.
  Conducted research in computer security, with an emphasis on security policy design and implementation in high assurance computer systems. Also worked on a formal methods project using ACL2 (May 2004 – August 2005). Major Professor: Dr. Jim Alves-Foss.
• Tutor (August 2003 – December 2003), Computer Science Assistance Center, Department of Computer Science, University of Idaho.
  Helped students in the computer laboratory with homework in the introduction and upper-division courses.
• Teaching Assistant (May 1999 – May 2000), Department of Computer Science, Stephen F. Austin State University.
  Assisted a course instructor in teaching courses (titled “CSC 101: Introduction to Computing”), graded tests and homework, helped develop homework, and helped students in the computer laboratory with homework.
• Research Assistant (August 1998 – May 1999), Department of Computer Science, Stephen F. Austin State University.
  Designed and implemented a new computational model of series-coupled isothermal Boltzmann machines which solved combinatorial optimization problems faster than a single Boltzmann machine and more effectively than sequential simulated annealing. Major Professor: Dr. Camille C. Price.
• Laboratory Instructor (January 1996 – July 1998, November 1992 – September 1993), Department of Computer Science, Mutah University (military and civilian campuses).
  Taught C, Fortran, Pascal, COBOL, and BASIC laboratories using UNIX, Windows, and VMS platforms.

 Honors

• Upsilon Pi Epsilon computing sciences honor society (inductee November 1999, life-time membership). Secretary of the Stephen F. Austin State University Chapter (November 1999 – May 2000).
• British Council scholarship to study in the United Kingdom (October 1993 – July 1994).
• Ranked second of my bachelor’s class of 1992 with honors (February 1992).
• Ministry of Education award: an overseas summer camp for being an honors student (Summer 1986).