The Center for Information and Computer Security has affiliated faculty from 4 departments, from 3 colleges and schools, at the University of North Texas: the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, the Department of Business Computer Information Systems, the Department of Criminal Justice, and the Department of Engineering Technology. The faculty affiliated with the center are all experts in areas related to computer security and cybercrime, and many are recognized leaders in their field.

The following list gives a brief bio of each faculty member. More information can be obtained by contacting the Center.

Robert Akl, D.Sc., Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
Dr. Akl established the "Wireless Security Lab" in 2002, to investigate Bluetooth and 802.11b security vulnerabilities. Dr. Akl's area of expertise is in wireless communication, wireless security, and cellular network design and optimization.

Ram Dantu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
Dr. Dantu has been working on network security for the last 3 years. Prior to that, Dr. Dantu was working on network survivability and reliability for 9 years in industry for companies such as Cisco, Nortel and Alcatel. Dr. Dantu has been granted 4 patents and 8 others are pending in the above areas. Dr. Dantu is an active member of Internet Engineering Task Force and authored 6 RFCs, and these are implemented and deployed by various network equipment vendors. Dr. Dantu has taught in the area of network security, such as a Fall 2003 graduate course looking at vulnerabilities in different Internet protocols.

Carl Stephen Guynes, Ph.D., Regents Professor of Information Technology, Department of Business Computer Information Systems.
Dr. Guynes's areas of expertise are computer security, privacy, and database management. Dr. Guynes has taught numerous information systems courses at the undergraduate, masters, and PhD. level. He has recently been teaching visual methodologies and computer programming courses. Dr. Guynes has published two books and over 70 journal articles. He has published 16 journal articles in the areas of security, privacy, and controls in such journals as Computers and Security, Security, Audit and Control, Computers and Society, and Journal of Systems Management. Dr. Guynes currently serves as a consultant and expert witness to the United States Treasury Department in the areas of computer auditing and controls.

Bradley K. Jensen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Information Technology and Decision Sciences.
Dr. Jensen received his Ph.D. in Business Computer Information Systems from the University of North Texas (UNT), with majors in Business Computer Information Systems and Computer Science. He is an Assistant Professor in Information Technology and Decision Sciences and Assistant Director of the Information Systems Research Center at UNT, and is also President of JMC Consulting Services, an executive management consulting firm which provides strategic and tactical IT consulting services. His research interests include privacy and security, networking, human factors, e-commerce, and document management. Dr. Jensen has been an executive and consultant with more than 20 years of sales, marketing, and IT experience with several Fortune 100 companies.

David M. Keathly MSEE, Lecturer and Undergraduate Advisor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
In addition to addressing security-related concerns in courses on Computer Organization and Systems Programming, Mr. Keathly also coordinates the efforts of Computer Engineering students in the two semester Senior Project Design sequence. He also serves the CSE Department as the Undergraduate Advisor and is the Faculty Advisor for the IEEE Computer Society and ACM chapters at UNT, as well as the coach of the s highly successful programming teams. David also works closely with area community colleges, particularly those with programs in networking and security, to identify and recruit highly capable students into the s degree programs, as well as serving on the advisory board for these programs at the community colleges. His other research interests include Robotics, Scientific Visualization, Software Engineering and Computational Epidemiology.

D. Kall Loper, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Criminal Justice.
Dr. Loper specializes in the legal and technical aspects of digital forensics and computer crime investigation. He has conducted field studies of hackers and is currently involved in applying this information to attack graphs, security decision trees, and profiles of hacker on-line activities. Dr. Loper also studies law enforcement response to computer crime.

Armin Mikler, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
Dr. Mikler has been the director of the Network Research Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science at UNT for the last 5 years. His research interest includes network centric computing, with special emphasis on the mobile agent paradigm applied in Grid Infrastructure. As part of this research effort, Dr. Mikler has supervised several research projects pertaining to communication security, delegation of authority, and contents protection. As instructor of undergraduate and graduate networking courses, Dr. Mikler has covered a variety of security topics as part of the course curriculum.

Victor R. Prybutok, Ph.D., Regents Professor of Management Science, Department of Business Computer Information Systems.
Victor R. Prybutok is Director of the Center for Quality and Productivity, and Doctoral Program Director in the College of Business Administration at the University of North Texas. He received, from Drexel University, his B.S. with High Honors in 1970, a M.S. in Bio-Mathematics in 1976, a M.S. in Environmental Health in 1980, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Analysis and Applied Statistics in 1984. Dr. Prybutok has authored over 60 journal articles, several book chapters, and more than 60 conference presentations in quality control, risk assessment, and statistics.

Paul Tarau, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Dr. Tarau has been the director of the Intelligent Distributes Software Systems Laboratory for the last 4 years. His research areas include agent infrastructures, P2P agent communication protocols, agent and mobile code security and knowledge based content scanning of natural language documents. As an instructor of graduate and undergraduate programming languages, compilers and operating system courses, Dr. Tarau has covered a variety of security aspects ranging from code encryption to secure distributed programming. Dr. Tarau is also the developer of the Jinni 2003 agent programming infrastructure which supports deployment of standalone knowledge processing Web services that interoperate through secure agent communication protocols.

Stephen Tate, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
Dr. Tate has run the "Computer Privacy and Security Lab" since 2001, with current security-related research funding from the National Science Foundation for a project on mobile agent security. Dr. Tate's areas of expertise are in cryptography, cryptographic protocols, and computer system security. Dr. Tate also has experience in teaching computer security, having taught multiple security courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels from 1998 until the present.

Robert W. Taylor, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Criminal Justice.
Dr. Taylor has been extensively involved in information crime and security for the past twenty years, having conducted seminars on the subject to governmental agencies, financial institutions, and private corporations in the United States and Europe. He is the author of numerous articles and chapters focusing on computer security and was the Chair, State of Texas Governor's Advisory Committee on Information and Computer Security, appointed through the Department of Information Resources in 1993. His latest book, Cyber-Crime and Cyber-Terrorism (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall) is scheduled for publication in the spring 2004. Dr. Taylor is an active consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and several foreign countries and private corporations on the subject of computer security, infrastructure protection, and international terrorism.

Vijay Vaidyanathan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering Technology.
Dr. Vaidyanathan has been the Director of the Electronics Engineering Technology Program for the past 1.5 years. His research interests are in the areas of biomedical optics and instrumentation; biometrics, telemedicine and the application of feedback controls theory in network security to slow down the propagation of worms.

Richard Vedder, Ph.D., Professor of Information Technology, Department of Business Computer Information Systems.
Dr. Vedder researches competitive intelligence (also called "competitor intelligence" or "business intelligence") issues relating to the computer industry.Articles based on his work have appeared in Communications of the ACM; Journal of Computer Information Systems; Competitive Intelligence Magazine; Security, Audit, and Control (ACM); and Computers and Society (ACM).

John C. Windsor, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Business Computer Information Systems.
John C. Windsor serves as Chair of the Business Computer Information Systems department at the University of North Texas. He received his Ph.D. in Decision Sciences from Georgia State University. He has published over six books and many articles in such journals as Data Base, IIE Transactions, and Computers & Security. His research interests include software and data engineering, systems security, and the organizational impact of information technology.