Innovations in Cybersecurity Education

Kevin Daimi received his Ph.D. from the University of Cranfield, England. He has a long academic and industry experience. His research interests include Computer and Network Security with emphasis on vehicle network security, Software Engineering, Data Science, and Computer Science and Software Engineering Education. He has published a number of papers on vehicle security. He is the editor of Computer and Network Security Essentials book, which was published by Springer. He has been chairing the annual International Conference on Security and Management (SAM) since 2012. Kevin is a Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and a Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS). He is the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award from the 2010 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP’10) in Recognition and Appreciation of his Leadership, Service and Research Contributions to the Field of Network Security. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Detroit Mercy.

Guillermo A. Francia, III received his BS in Mechanical Engineering degree from Mapua Tech. His Ph.D. in Computer Science is from New Mexico Tech. Before joining Jacksonville State University (JSU), he was the chairman of the Computer Science department at Kansas Wesleyan University. Dr. Francia is a recipient of numerous grants. His projects have been funded by prestigious institutions such as the National Science Foundation, Eisenhower Foundation, Department of Education, Department of Defense, and Microsoft Corporation. In 1996, Dr. Francia received one of the five national awards for Innovators in Higher Education from Microsoft Corporation. Dr. Francia served as a Fulbright scholar to Malta in 2007 and a Fulbright Cybersecurity research scholar to the United Kingdom in 2017. Before joining the Center for Cybersecurity at the University of West Florida (UWF), Dr. Francia served as the Director of the Center for Information Security and Assurance and held a Distinguished Professor position at JSU. Currently, he is Professor and Faculty Scholar at UWF.