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Kenji Yoshigoe
Department of Computer Science
Donaghey College of Engineering and
Information Technology
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
2801 S. University Ave., EIT 578
Little Rock, Arkansas 72204-1099
Phone: +1 501 569 8138
FAX: +1 501 569 8144
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ualr.edu/kxyoshigoe
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EDUCATION
Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Florida, 2004
B.S., Computer Science, University of South Florida, 2000
RESEARCH AREAS Internet of Things, big data analytics, software-defined networking, social network analysis, high
performance computing, high-speed packet switch, wireless sensor networks, and information privacy
and security.
WORKING EXPERIENCE
Summer 2016 - present Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information
Studies, The University of Tokyo
Summer 2015 - present Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Arkansas at
Little Rock (UALR)
Fall 2012 - present Chair, Department of Computer Science, UALR
Fall 2012 - present Director, NSA/ DHS Designated National Center of Academic
Excellence in Cyber Defense Education (CAE-CDE), UALR
Summer 2012 – present Founding Director, UALR Computational Research Center, UALR
Summer 2010 – Spring 2015 Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, UALR
Summer 2010 – Fall 2012 Graduate Program Coordinator, Integrated Computing PhD Program,
Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology, UALR
Summer 2010 – Spring 2012 Director, High Performance Computing Facility, UALR
Fall 2008 – Spring 2010 Manager, High Performance Computing Facility, UALR
Fall 2004 – Spring 2010 Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, UALR
Fall 2003 – Summer 2004 Instructor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University
of South Florida (USF)
Spring 2001– Summer 2003 Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
USF
Fall 2000 & Summer 2002 Teaching assistant, Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
USF
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GRANT ACTIVITIES Total Amount of Funding Awarded: $32,971,903.5 ($5,990,474 as a PI or Campus Lead, $1,287052.5
as a Co-PI, & $25,694,377 as Senior Personnel)
1. “PROMISE: A Platform for Competition and Education in Cyber Security,” National Science
Foundation, Duration: September 1, 2016 – August 31, 2019, Amount: $276,424, Role: Co-PI.
2. “Summer Computer Science Program for High School Teachers,” Arkansas Department of
Education, Duration: May 15, 2016 – August 15, 2016, Amount: $35,535, Role: PI.
3. “Tuning Synchronous Performance of Trans-Pacific Databases,” Jaimeg LLC, Duration
December 1, 2015 – December 31, 2015, Amount: $3,333, Role: PI.
4. “An Integrative Approach to Integratable, Compsable and Evolvable Cybersecurity in Energy
Delivery Systems,” Department of Energy, Duration: October 2015 – September 2020, Amount:
$12,226,504, Role: Senior Personnel.
5. "Academic Research Enhancement Awards: Developing Integrative Approaches for Identifying
Disease-causing Genes and Dysfunctional Networks," National Institute of Health, Duration: July
1, 2015 – June 30, 2018, Amount: $373,520, Role: Co-Investigator.
6. "Convex Optimization for Big Data Applications," UAMS, Duration: October 2014 - December
2015, $27,837, Role: PI.
7. "MRI: Acquisition of Peta-scale Data Storage System for Big Data Exploration in STEM Fields,"
National Science Foundation, Duration: September 2014 – August 2017, Amount: $291,908 plus
$ 125,013 institutional match ($417,011 total), Role: PI.
8. "REU Site: CyberSAFE@UALR: Cyber Security and Forensics Research at University of
Arkansas at Little Rock," National Science Foundation, Duration: February 2014 – January 2017,
Amount: $289,660, Role: Co-PI.
9. "Enhancing The Capabilities of UALR and IRMC through a joint Partnership Agreement,” DoD
Information Assurance Scholarship Program, National Security Agency, Duration: June 2013 -
May 2014. Amount: $2,467 (and up to $414,563 scholarship fund), Role: PI.
10. "MRI: Acquisition of a Cloud Computing Infrastructure for Research and Education", National
Science Foundation, Duration: September 2013 - August 2016, $108,125 125 plus $ 46,340
institutional match ($154,465 total), Role: Co-PI.
11. “Large-scale Complex Network and Social Media Analysis,” UAMS, Duration: January 14, 2013
- August 31, 2013, $25,000, Role: PI.
12. "Enhancing The Capabilities of UALR and IRMC through a joint Partnership Agreement," DoD
Information Assurance Scholarship Program, National Security Agency, Duration: September
2012 - December 2013. Amount: $22,863 (and up to $417,030 scholarship fund), Role: PI.
13. “Collaborative Research: Cyberinfrastructure for Transformational Scientific Discovery in
Arkansas and West Virginia (CI-TRAIN),” National Science Foundation, Duration: September
2009 - August 2013, Amount: $ 3,370,951 plus $1,685,477 state match ($5,056,428 total), Role:
Campus Lead.
14. "Enhancing The Capabilities of UALR and IRMC through a joint Partnership Agreement," DoD
Information Assurance Scholarship Program, National Security Agency, Duration: September
2011 - December 2012. Amount: $2432.50 (and up to $415,370 scholarship fund), Role: Co-PI.
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15. “CRI: II-EN: Stream Computing for Research and Education in Science and Engineering,”
National Science Foundation, Duration: September 2009 - August 2012, Amount: $400,000,
Role: PI.
16. "Enhancing The Capabilities of UALR and IRMC through a joint Partnership Agreement," DoD
Information Assurance Scholarship Program, National Security Agency, September 2010 -
December 2011. Amount: $2,085 (and up to $300,445 scholarship fund), Role: Co-PI.
17. “Modeling, Analysis and Crop Prediction for Farming Environments: REU Supplement to MRI,”
National Science Foundation, Duration: August 2009 - July 2010, Amount: $11,863, Role: Senior
Personnel.
18. “Wireless Sensor Networked Environment for Health Care Hygiene: REU Supplement to MRI,”
National Science Foundation,” Duration: July 2008 - August 2009, Amount: $14,004, Role:
Senior Personnel.
19. “REU Supplement to MRI,” National Science Foundation, Duration: August 2007 - July 2008,
Amount: $12,635, Role: Senior Personnel.
20. “REU Supplement to IRES,” National Science Foundation, Duration: August 2007 - July 2008,
Amount: $3,788, Role: Co-PI.
21. “IRES: US-France (INSA) Cooperative Research in Engineering Innovative Software Systems
with Applications to Maritime Transportation Logistics,” National Science Foundation, Duration:
September 2007 – August 2010, $149,964, Role: Co-PI.
22. “Arkansas ASSET: Advancing and Supporting Science, Engineering and Technology,” National
Science Foundation, Duration: August 2007 - July 2010, Amount: $9,000,000 plus $4,168,123
($13,168,123 total), Role: Senior Personnel.
23. “Development of an Interdisciplinary Arkansas Emulation Laboratory,” National Science
Foundation, Duration: August 2006 - July 2009, Amount: $299,750, Role: Senior Personnel.
PUBLICATIONS
Books 1. K. Yoshigoe, “The Combined Input and Crossbar Queued (CICQ) Switch,” VDM Verlag Dr.
Müller July 2008.
Book Chapters
1. M. Xie, L. Hao, K. Yoshigoe, and J. Bian, "CamTalk: A Bidirectional Light Communications
Framework for Secure Communications On Smartphones," Springer Lecture Notes of the
Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
(LNICST), pp 35-52, Vol. 127, 2013.
2. M. Hammood, K. Yoshigoe, and A. M. Sagheer, "RC4 with A Random Initial State," Springer
Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE), Vol. 253, pp. 407-416, 2013.
3. M. Hammood, K. Yoshigoe, and A. M. Sagheer, "RC4-S2: RC4 Stream Ciphers with Two State
Tables," Springer Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE), Vol. 253, pp.13-20, 2013.
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4. Y. Zhao, K. Yoshigoe, and M. Xie, "Pre-execution Data Prefetching with Inter-threads I/O
Scheduling," Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol. 7905, pp. 395-407, June
2013.
5. A. Anghelescu, R. B. Lenin, S. Ramaswamy, and K. Yoshigoe, "Capacity Estimation in HPC
Systems: Simulation Approach," ICDCIT 2011, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol.
6536, pp. 126-137, 2011.
6. M. Al and K. Yoshigoe, "Security and Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks," Network Security,
Administration and Management: Advancing Technologies and Practices, pp. 183-216, ISBN: 1-
60960-777-5, IGI Global, 2011.
7. K. Yoshigoe and K. Christensen, "The Combined Input and Crosspoint Queued Switch," High-
Performance Packet Switching Architectures, pp. 169-195, ISBN: 1-84628-273-X, Springer,
September 2006.
Refereed Journal Publications 1. S. Tomovic, K. Yoshigoe, I. Maljevic, and I. Radusinovic, "Software-Defined Fog Network
Architecture for IoT," Springer Wireless Personal Communications, Vol. 92, Issue 1, pp. 181–
196, 2017, DOI:10.1007/s11277-016-3845-0.
2. M. Radonjic, N. Ljumovic, D. Misovic, I. Maljevic, K. Yoshigoe, and I. Radusinovic, "CQ
Ethernet Switch Implementation on the NetFPGA Platform," Springer Wireless Personal
Communication, 2017, Vol. 92, Issue 1, pp 5–19, 2017, DOI:10.1007/s11277-016-3835-2.
3. Y. Zhao, K. Yoshigoe, J. Bian, M. Xie, Z. Xue, and Y. Feng, “A Distributed Graph-Parallel
Computing System with Lightweight Communication Overhead, IEEE Transaction on Big Data,
Vol. 2, Issue 3, pp. 204 - 218, September 2016.
4. H. Zhou, J. Manthey, E. Lioukova, W. Yang, K. Yoshigoe, M. Yang, and H. Wang, “The up-
regulation of Myb may help mediate EGCG inhibition effect on mouse lung adenocarcinoma,”
Human Genomics, Vol. 10, Supplement 2, DOI: 10.1186/s40246-016-0072-42016.
5. J. Bian, K. Yoshigoe, A. Hicks, J. Yuan, Z. He, M. Xie, Y. Guo, M. Prosperi, R. Salloum, and F.
Modave, "Mining Twitter to Assess the Public Perception of the “Internet of Things”. PLOS
ONE, 11(7), e0158450.
6. K. Bush, S. Zhou, J. Cisler, J. Bian, O. Hazaroglu, K. Gillispie, K. Yoshigoe, C. Kilts, "A
Deconvolution-based Approach to Identifying Large-Scale Effective Connectivity," Elsevier
Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Vol. 33, No. 10, pp. 1290-1298, December 2015.
7. M. Hammood, K. Yoshigoe, and A. M. Sagheer, "Enhancing Security and Speed of RC4,"
International Journal of Computing and Network Technology, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2015, ISSN 2210-
1519, DOI: dx.doi.org/10.12785/ijcnt.
8. W. Yang, K. Yoshigoe, et al., "The emerging genomics and systems biology research lead to
systems genomics studies - Introductory review", BMC Genomics, Vol. 15. Supplement 11,
ISSN: 1471-2105, BioMed Central 2014.
9. Y. Zhao, K. Yoshigoe, M. Xie, S. Zhou, R. Seker, and J. Bian, "Evaluation and Analysis of
Distributed Big Data Processing Frameworks," Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility, Vol.3,
No.3, pp. 289-316. doi: 10.13052/jcsm2245-1439.333, 2014.
10. W. Yang, K. Yoshigoe, et al., "Identifying genes and pathways involved in kidney renal clear cell
carcinoma", BMC Bioinformatics, Vol. 15. ISSN: 1471-2105, BioMed Central December 16,
2014 (Ranked 7th most viewed (in last 30 days), 1649 accesses as of January16, 2015).
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11. Y. Zhao, K. Yoshigoe, and M. Xie, "Pre-execution Data Prefetching with I/O Scheduling," The
Springer Journal of Supercomputing, 10.1007/s11227-013-1060-2, 2013.
12. J. Thomason, K. Yoshigoe, R. B. Lenin, James M. Bridges, and S. Ramaswamy, "Differentiated
Service Strategies for Ad-Hoc Wireless Sensor Networks in Harsh Communication
Environments," Springer Wireless Networks, Vol. 18, No. 5, pp. 551-564, 2012.
13. M. Radonjic, I. Radusinovic, J. Cvorovic, and K. Yoshigoe, "Iterative throughput calculation for
crosspoint queued switch," IEICE Transactions on Communications, Vol. E93-B, No 12,
December 2010, pp. 3635-3638, ISSN: 0916-8516 (print version), ISSN: 1745-1345 (Online).
14. L. B. Rathinasamy, A. Cuyt, K. Yoshigoe, and S. Ramaswamy, "Computing packet loss
probabilities of D-BMAP/PH/1/N queues with group services," Elsevier Performance Evaluation,
Vol. 67, No. 3, pp. 160-173, March 2010.
15. S. Ito and K. Yoshigoe, “Performance Evaluation of Consumed-Energy-Type-Aware Routing
(CETAR) for Wireless Sensor Networks,” International Journal of Wireless & Mobile Networks
(IJWMN), Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 93-104, November 2009.
16. K. Yoshigoe, “Trends in Highly Scalable Crossbar-based Packet Switch Architecture,” Elsevier
Computer Communications Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 740–749, February 2009.
17. K. Yoshigoe, K. Christensen, and A. Roginsky, "Performance Evaluation of New Scheduling
Methods for the RR/RR CICQ Switch," Elsevier Computer Communications, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp.
417-428, March 2005.
18. K. Yoshigoe and K. Christensen, “An Evolution to Crossbar Switches with Virtual Output
Queueing and Buffered Cross Points,” IEEE Network, Vol. 17, No. 5, pp.48-56, September-
October 2003.
Dissertation 1. K. Yoshigoe, Design and Evaluation of the Combined Input and Crossbar Queued (CICQ)
Switch, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of South Florida, August 2004.
Refereed Conference Publications
1. D. Frank, J. Mabrey, and K. Yoshigoe, "NeuroAuth: Personalizable Neurological User
Authentication Framework," to appear in Proceedings of the International Conference on
Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), January 2017.
2. D. Li, K. Yoshigoe, W. Yang, C. Arthur, J. Liu, M. Yang, "A Systematically Approach
Revealing a Landscape of Long Non-coding RNA in Human Brain," to appear in Proceedings of
the International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence,
December 2016.
3. W. Yang, K. Yoshigoe, et al., "IDEAS: An online tool to Identify Differential Expression of
genes for Applications in genome-wide Studies", Proceedings of the 3rd International
Conference on Advances in Big Data Analytics, 2016.
4. Y. Zhang, E. Ermisoglu, D. Li, D. Geisert, W. Yang, K. Yoshigoe, C. Haydan, and M. Yang,
"Building Genomics Foundation for Precision Medicine Research: A portable multitask data
management system," Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Advances in Big Data
Analytics, 2016.
5. M. Hammood and K. Yoshigoe, "Previously overlooked bias signatures for RC4," 4th IEEE
International Symposium on Digital Forensic and Security (ISDFS), pp. 101-106, 2016.
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6. K. Yoshigoe, W. Dai, M. Abramson, and A. Jacobs, "Overcoming Invasion of Privacy in Smart
Home Environment with Synthetic Packet Injection," In TRON Symposium (TRONSHOW) 2015,
(pp. 1-9). IEEE, 2015.
7. H. Zhou, J. Manthey, E. Lioutikova, M. Q. Yang, W. Yang, K. Yoshigoe, and H. Wang, "The
upregulation of Myb and Peg3 may mediate EGCG inhibition effect on mouse lung
adenocarcinoma," IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM),
pp. 1532-1535. IEEE, 2015.
8. C. Hayden, D. Li, K. Yoshigoe, and M. Yang, "Developing automated pipeline for identifying
disease-related genomic variants," 2015 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and
Biomedicine (BIBM), pp. 1789, doi:10.1109/BIBM.2015.7359964.
9. M. Xie, Y. Li, K. Yoshigoe, and J. Bian, "CamAuth: Securing Web Authentication with
Camera,” Proceeding of the IEEE International Symposium on High Assurance Systems
Engineering (HASE 2015), pp. 232 - 239, January 2015.
10. A. Al-Uraiby, K. Yoshigoe, R. Seker, R. Babiceanu, and N. Yilmazer, "Low-profile Wake-up
Radio Mechanism for Resource-constrained Wireless Devices," In TRON Symposium
(TRONSHOW), 2014 (pp. 1-9). IEEE, 2014.
11. S. Tomovic, K. Yoshigoe, I. Maljevic, M. Pejanovic-Djurisic, and I. Radusinovic, "SDN-based
concept of QoS aware heterogeneous wireless network operation, Proceedings of 22th
Telecommunication Forum (TELFOR), 27-30, October 2014.
12. Z. Reichert, K. Richards, and K. Yoshigoe, "Automated Forensic Data Acquisition in the Cloud,"
Proceeding of the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS),
pp. 725-730, October 2014.
13. Y. Zhao, K. Yoshigoe, M. Xie, S. Zhou, R. Seker, and J. Bian, "LightGraph: Lighten
Communication in Distributed Graph-Parallel Processing," Proceedings of the IEEE
International Congress on Big Data, pp. 717-724, DOI 10.1109/BigData.Congress.2014.106,
July 2014.
14. W. Yang, K. Yoshigoe, et al., "Exploring Big Data Analysis Using Integrative Systems Biology
Approaches for Kidney Renal Clear Cell Carcinoma Studies", Proceedings of the International
Conference on Advances in Big Data Analytics, July 2014.
15. Y. Zhao and K. Yoshigoe, "Hiding I/O Latency with Parallel Pre-execution Prefetching,"
Proceedings of IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and
Systems, pp. 162 - 169, DOI: 10.2316/P.2012.789-015, November 2012.
16. S. Divanovic, V. Lovacevic, M. Radonjic, K. Yoshigoe, and I. Radusinovic, "Crosspoint Queued
Switch Performance Analysis Under Multicast Traffic," Proceedings of 20th Telecommunication
Forum (TELFOR), pp. 226 - 229, DOI: 10.1109/TELFOR.2012.6419187, October 2012.
17. A. Al-Uraiby, K. Yoshigoe, R. Seker, R. Babiceanu, and N. Yilmazer, "FPGA Implementation of
Low-profile Wake-up Radio Receiver for Wireless Sensor Networks," Proceedings of the IEEE
Global Conference on Consumer Electronics, pp. 20-24, ISBN: 978-1-4673-1498-5, October
2012 (Selected as an Electrical Science and Engineering Promotion Student Paper).
18. D. Serfass and K. Yoshigoe, "Wireless Sensor Networks Using Android Virtual Devices and
Near Field Communication Peer-To-Peer Emulation," Proceedings of IEEE Southeast
Conference, March 2012.
19. Z. Shakir, K. Yoshigoe, and R. B. Lenin, "Adaptive Buffering Scheme to Reduce Packet Loss on
Densely Connected WSN with Mobile Sink," Proceedings of the IEEE Consumer
Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), pp. 439-444, January 2012.
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20. M. M. Hammood and K. Yoshigoe, "Efficient Data Replication Mechanism to Maximize Data
Survivability in Unattended Wireless Sensor Networks," Proceedings of the International
Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS), DOI:
10.1109/ICSPCS.2011.6140883, December 2011.
21. K. Yoshigoe, "The Crosspoint-Queued Switches with Virtual Crosspoint Queueing," Proceedings
of the International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS),
10.1109/ICSPCS.2011.6140853, December 2011.
22. K. Yoshigoe, “Data-Driven Data Transmission Mechanism for Wireless Sensor Networks in
Harsh Communication Environment,” Proceedings in IEEE Globecom 2010 Workshop on
Towards SmArt Communications and Network technologies applied on Autonomous Systems, pp.
1622-1626, December 2010.
23. V. Swamy Martha, K.Yoshigoe, and S. Ramaswamy, “SONIA: Secured Open Nautilus Intelligent
Agent Protocol,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems
2010, pp. 672-676, November 2010.
24. W.B. Hurst, S. Ramaswamy, K.Yoshigoe, R.B. Lenin, and D. Hoffman, “Modeling and
Simulation of HPC Systems Through Job Scheduling Analysis,” Acxiom Laboratory for Applied
Research Conference, ALAR 2010, University of Central Arkansas (UCA) campus, Conway,
Arkansas, USA, April 2010.
25. S. Mohan, H. M. Al-Rizzo, R. Babiceanu, T. Elwi, R. Ghimire, G. Huang, H. Khalil, D. Rucker,
C. Singh, V. Varadan, K. Yoshigoe, and R. Zhu, "A Systems Engineering Approach for Wireless
Integration, Design, Modeling, and Analysis of Nanosensors, Networks, and Systems,
Proceedings of the SPIE Conferences on Nanosensors, Biosensors, and Info-Tech Sensors and
Systems, The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 7646, doi:10.1117/12.849763,
March 2010.
26. S. Sudarsan, S. Vimalathithan, K. Yoshigoe, S. Ramaswamy, R. Seker, and R. Lenin, “Impact of
Duty Cycle Variation on WSNs”, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on New
Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS), 2009, DOI: 10.1109/NTMS.2009.5384705, January
2010.
27. S. Mohan, H. M. Al-Rizzo, R. Babiceanu, T. Elwi, R. Ghimire, G. Huang, D. Rucker, R. Seker, F.
Song, V. Varadan, S. Vimalathithan, M. Al and K. Yoshigoe, Wireless Integration, Design,
Modeling, and Analysis of Nanosensors, Networks, and Systems: A Systems Engineering
Approach, Proceedings of the SPIE Conferences on Nanosensors, Biosensors, and Info-Tech
Sensors and Systems, The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 7291,
doi:10.1117/12.821554, March 2009.
28. M. Al and K. Yoshigoe, “Adaptive Confidentiality Mechanism for Hierarchical Wireless Sensor
Networks” Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Sensor Networks (in conjunction with the IEEE
GLOBECOM), November 2008.
29. M. Al and K. Yoshigoe, “A Secure and Energy-Efficient Key Generation Mechanism for
Wireless Sensor Networks,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and
Distributed Techniques and Applications, pp. 587-593, July 2008.
30. H. Qing and K. Yoshigoe, “Adaptive QoS Admission Control for IEEE 802.11e Network,"
Proceedings of the IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference, pp. 591 - 595,
January 2008.
31. K. Yoshigoe, “Threshold-based Exhaustive Round-robin for the CICQ Switch with Virtual
Crosspoint Queues,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications, pp.
6325-6329, June 2007.
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32. S. Ito and K. Yoshigoe, “Consumed-Energy-Type-Aware Routing for Wireless Sensor
Networks,” IEEE Wireless Telecommunications Symposium, April 26-28, 2007, Pomona,
California.
33. S. Ito and K. Yoshigoe, “Exponentially Aggressive Preservation of Nearly Depleted Nodes for
Wireless Sensor Networks,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Information
Technology: New Generations, pp. 880-882, 2007.
34. K. Yoshigoe, “The CICQ Switch with Virtual Crosspoint Queues for Large RTT,” Proceedings
of the IEEE International Conference on Communications, pp. 299-303, June 2006.
35. K. Yoshigoe, "Rate-based Flow-control for the CICQ Switch," Proceedings of the IEEE
Conference on Local Computer Networks, pp. 44-50, November 2005.
36. K. Christensen, K. Yoshigoe, A. Roginsky, and N. Gunther, “Performance Evaluation of Packet-
to-Cell Segmentation Schemes in Input Buffered Packet Switches,” Proceedings of the IEEE
International Conference on Communications, pp 1097-1102, June 2004.
37. N. Gunther, K. Christensen, and K. Yoshigoe, “Characterization of the Burst Stabilization
Protocol for the RR/RR CICQ Switch,” Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Local Computer
Networks, pp. 260-269, October 2003.
38. K. Yoshigoe, K. Christensen, and A. Roginsky, “Design of a High-Speed Overlapped Round
Robin (ORR) Arbiter,” Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, pp.
638-639, October 2003.
39. K. Yoshigoe, K. Christensen, and A. Jacob, “The RR/RR CICQ Switch: Hardware Design for 10-
Gbps Link Speed,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Performance, Computing, and
Communications Conference, pp. 481-485, April 2003.
40. K. Yoshigoe and K. Christensen, “RATE Control for Bandwidth Allocated Services in IEEE
802.3 Ethernet,” Proceedings of the IEEE 26th Conference on Local Computer Networks, pp.
446-453, November 2001.
41. K. Yoshigoe and K. Christensen, “A Parallel-Polled Virtual Output Queued Switch with a
Buffered Crossbar,” Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching
and Routing, pp. 271-275, May 2001.
Tutorials and Invited Presentations
1. K. Yoshigoe, "Recommendation to OTA IoT Trust Framework - IoT Industry to Provide Non-
obvious Traffic Patterns for Protecting Consumer Privacy,"Online Trust Alliance IoT Working
Group Meeting, January 13, 2016.
2. W. Yang and K. Yoshigoe, "Advances in Genomic Big-Data Analytics Provide Unpresented
Opportunities in Translational Bioinformatics and Precision Medicine Research," 2015
International Conference on IEEE Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, Washington DC, Nov. 9-12th,
2015.
3. W. Yang and K. Yoshigoe, “Integrative Big-data Analysis for Translational Genomics
Research,” WORLDCOMP'15 Tutorial.
4. E. Garcia and K. Yoshigoe, “NSA - Homeland Security Information Assurance - Center of
Excellence”, Infragard Arkansas Members Alliance - Physical and Cyber Security Seminar, Wal-
Mart Home Office-Sam Walton Development Center, Bentonville AR, January 30, 2015.
5. K. Yoshigoe, “Big Data - Opportunities and Challenges", Philander Smith College CI Day, Little
Rock AR, April 2013.
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6. R. Seker and K. Yoshigoe, “Information Assurance Program", InfraGuard Arkansas Chapter
Quarterly Meeting, Little Rock AR, August 2012.
7. K. Yoshigoe, "Cyberinfrastructure and HPC," Cyberinfrastructure Day, UALR, May 4, 2012.
8. K. Yoshigoe, “HPC Cluster for Research,” EIT/CSAM Colloquium Series, UALR, October 1,
2010.
9. R. Seker and K. Yoshigoe, “An Overview of Cloud Computing,” ISACA Seminar on Cloud
Computing, May 26, 2010, Little Rock, AR.
10. Arkansas Business, “The Cloud: To Surf or Not to Surf” Magazine interview, January 11, 2010.
11. K. Yoshigoe, et al., “From Science to Service”, Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium, Norman
OK, October 6, 2009 (Poster Presentation).
12. K. Yoshigoe, “Introduction to High Performance Computing,” WiNS Center Nanotechnology and
Healthcare Education Training Workshop, Fayetteville, AR, July 29 2009.
13. K. Yoshigoe, “Wireless Sensor Networks: Design and Its Applications,” WiNS Center
Nanotechnology and Healthcare Education Training Workshop Fayetteville, AR, July 29 2009.
14. K. Yoshigoe, “Data Mining for Science and Engineering”, Oklahoma Supercomputing
Symposium, Norman OK, October 7, 2008.
15. R. Seker, C. Bayrak, and K. Yoshigoe, Overview of Encryption Technologies,” Practical
Applications of Encryption Technology Seminar by ISACA Central Arkansas Chapter, Little
Rock, AR February 21, 2007.
16. K. Yoshigoe, “Network Security: Attacks and Countermeasures”, InfraGuard Arkansas Chapter
Quarterly Meeting, Little Rock, AR, February 2005.
DISSERTATION, MS THESIS and PROJECT ADVISING, and RESEARCH MENTORING Department of Applied Science Doctoral Faculty (Fall 2004 - present)
Integrated Computing Doctoral Faculty (Fall 2010 - present)
Bioinformatics Program Doctoral Faculty (Spring 2014 - present)
Engineering Science and Systems Doctoral Faculty (Spring 2014 - present)
Dissertation 1. James Joyce (expected graduation date: TBA)
o Dissertation title: Heuristic One-Time Pad (HOT Pad)
2. John Birmingham (expected graduation date: TBA)
o Dissertation title: Automated Identification of Historical Concept Change in a Large
Corpus
3. Yue Zhao (graduated in Spring 2015)
o Dissertation title: Optimization of Communication for Distributed Graph-Parallel
Computing Systems
4. Maytham Hammood (graduated in Spring 2015)
o Dissertation title: Light-weight Encryption and Dynamic Data Protection Mechanism for
Resource-Constrained Devices
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5. William Brad Hurst (graduated in Spring 2011)
o Dissertation title: Modeling and Simulation of HPC Systems Through Job Scheduling
Analysis
6. Murat Al (graduated in Fall 2010)
o Dissertation title: Energy-efficient and Secure Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks
MS Thesis Advising 1. Wei Dai (expected graduation date: Fall 2016)
o Thesis title: TBA
1. Rezaie Mohammed (graduated in Fall 2015)
o Thesis title: Discovering Adverse Drug Reaction using Convex Optimization Techniques
2. Ali Al-Uralby (graduated in Spring 2013)
o Thesis title: Low-profile Wake-up Radio Mechanism for Resource-constrained Wireless
Devices
3. Zaenab Shakir (graduate in Spring 2011)
o Thesis title: Buffer Management Scheme for Multi-destination Routing in Wireless
Sensor Networks
4. Shinya Ito (graduated in Spring 2007)
o Thesis title: Consumed-Energy-Type-Aware Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks
MS Project Advising
1. Alla Sadhana (graduated in Spring 2013)
o Project title: Spell Matching Game for Kids
2. Sangheetha Hebbar (graduated in Spring 2012)
o Project title: Real-time Stream Processing Using S4
3. Siva Kumar Gopu (graduated in Spring 2010)
o Project title: 3D Computer Graphics for Future World
4. Hua Qing (graduated in Spring 2007)
o Project title: Adaptive QoS Admission Control for IEEE 802.11e Networks
5. Ahmed Mohammed (graduated in Spring 2005)
o Project title: A Multi-platform Video Conferencing Solution Using H.323 Protocol
Dissertation Committees 1. Ayman Abbosh (PhD candidate - Chair: Dr. Al-Rizzo)
2. Muhammad Awan (PhD candidate - Chair: Dr. Mohan)
3. Dan Li (Ph.D. candidate - Chair: Dr. Yang)
4. Sobhi Mejjaouli (PhD candidate – Chair: Dr. Nisanci)
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5. Nasir Gasab (PhD candidate - Chair: Dr. Wu)
6. David Threm (graduated in Fall 2015 - Chair: Dr. Milanova)
7. Lu Shi (graduated in Spring 2015 – Chair: Dr. Yu)
8. Jiawei Yuan (graduated in Spring 2015 – Chair: Dr. Yu)
9. Raied Caromi (graduated in Fall 2015 – Chair: Dr. Mohan)
10. Nitin V. Kanaskar (graduated in Spring 2013 - Chair: Dr. Seker)
11. Subramanian Vimalathian (graduated in Spring 2012 - Chair: Dr. Seker)
12. Rabindra Ghimire (graduated in Spring 2012 - Chair: Dr. Mohan)
13. Lisham Singh (graduated in Spring 2012 - Chair: Dr. Milanova)
14. Jiang Bian (graduated in Fall 2010 - Chair: Dr. Seker)
15. Chuanlei Zhang (graduated in Spring 2010 - Chair: Dr. Ramaswamy)
16. Shayma Jabir (graduated in Fall 2009 - Chair: Dr. Ramaswamy)
17. Sithu Sudarsan (graduated in Fall 2009 - Chair: Dr. Ramaswamy)
18. Rick Massengale (graduated in Summer 2009 - Chair: Dr. Wu)
19. Umit Topaloglu (graduated in Summer 2006 - Chair: Dr. Bayrak)
20. Feilong Xu (graduated in Summer 2006 - Chair: Dr. Liu)
MS Thesis Committee
1. Junshung Yang (graduated in Summer 2015 - Chair: Dr. Xie)
2. Travis Bennett (graduated in Spring 2012 - Chair: Dr. Bayrak)
3. Abbas L, Abdalmuhsen (graduated in Fall 2011 - Chair: Dr. Babiceanu)
4. Shen Lu (graduated in Fall 2010 - Chair: Dr. Chiang)
5. GuangXu Zhou (graduated in Spring 2009 - Chair: Dr. Bayrak)
6. Gomathy Kumar (graduated in Fall 2008 - Chair: Dr. Mohan)
7. Mihails (Mike) Tihonciks (graduated in Fall 2007 - Chair: Dr. Seker)
8. Mary Henthorn (graduated in Fall 2007 - Chair: Dr. Seker)
9. Jian Bian (graduated in Spring 2007- Chair: Dr. Seker)
10. Nitin V. Kanaskar (graduated in Fall 2006- Chair: Dr. Seker)
MS Project Committee
1. Ryan Moulliet (Chair: Dr. Tang)
2. Samiuddin Mohammed (Chair: Dr. Xie)
3. Charles Reynolds (graduated – Chair: Dr. Minsker)
4. Xiao Liu (graduated – Chair: Dr. Xie)
5. Kiran Kumar Koona (graduated – Chair: Dr. Seker)
6. Pathyush Reddy Guttha (graduated – Chair: Dr. Seker)
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7. Santhosh Kanala (graduated - Chair: Dr. Ramaswamy)
8. Rohini Madireddy (graduated - Chair: Dr. Ramaswamy)
9. Kaky, Meher S. (graduated - Chair: Dr. Geoghegan)
10. RiyazMoosa Mohammed (graduated - Chair: Dr. Geoghegan)
11. Eric Nelson (graduated - Chair: Dr. Milanova)
12. Norman Curlalion Smith (graduated - Chair: Dr. Tang)
13. Fayaz A. Syed (graduated - Chair: Dr. Ramaswamy)
14. Salman A. Syed (graduated - Chair: Dr. Geoghegan)
15. Kalyan Sunny Thiparthi (graduated - Chair: Dr. Geoghegan)
16. Kishore Yelupula (graduated - Chair: Dr. Ramaswamy)
Undergraduate Research Mentoring 1. Dennis Frank, Jasmine Mabrey, Vaikkunth Mugunthan, and William Yang, Summer 2016
2. Melissa Abramson and Alex Jacob, Summer 2015
3. Zachary Reichert and Katarina Richard, Summer 2014
4. Thomas Wadley, Summer 2009 - Spring 2010
5. Jesse Thompson, University of Pittsburg (with Drs. Ramaswamy and Lenin), Summer 2009 –
Summer 2011
6. Michael Bridges, University of Missouri (with Drs. Ramaswamy and Lenin), Summer 2009 –
Summer 2011
7. Wayne Olive (with Dr. Ramaswamy), Summer 2008 – Spring 2009
8. Alexandra Anghelescu (with Drs. Lenin, Ramaswamy, and Seker), Summer 2008 – Spring 2009
9. Advisory Board Member for a team of undergraduate students (James Mayhan, Nicholas
Scroggins, Sarmad Raheem, Sasha Babenko, and Yeimer Bolanos) competed for Governors Cup
Competition, Spring 2009
High School Research Mentoring
1. William Yang, Arkansas School for Math Science and Arts, Summer 2014 - Spring 2016
2. Karam Sra, Highland High School, Summer 2011
3. Alec Crow, Arkansas School for Math Science and Arts, Summer 2010
4. Greg Thompson, Pine Bluff High School, Summer 2009
5. Jason Ellis, Arkansas School for Math Science and Arts (with Dr. Seker), Summer 2006
6. Seth Pigg, Mulberry High School (with Dr. Seker), Summer 2006
RESEARCH Centers and Labs UALR Computational Research Center, founding director, Summer 2012 - present
High Performance Computing (HPC) Center, founder, Fall 2008 - Spring 2012
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ASSURE Center, member/director, Fall 2006/Fall 2012 - present
Wireless Sensor Network Lab, founder, Summer 2008 - present
TEACHING Computer Science Department, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
CPSC 1375 Programming I (Spring 2005, Summer 2005)
CPSC 3370 Net-centric Computing: Systems Concepts (Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007,
Spring 2008, Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Spring 2012,
Spring 2013, Summer 2014) *
CPSC 3380 Operating Systems (Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2010, Fall 2014,
Fall 2015)
CPSC 3391 Co-op Education (Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Summer 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2015,
Fall 2015, Spring 2016)
CPSC 4384 Computer Networks (Summer 2005, Summer 2006, Fall 2008, Fall 2012)
CPSC 4399/5399 Sensor Networks (Fall 2007) *
CPSC 4392 Capstone Project (Fall 2009, Spring 2011, Fall 2012)
CPSC 7145 Integrated Computing Lab Rotation (Spring 2011) *
CPSC 7190 Graduate Seminar (Spring 2007, Spring 2009)
CPSC 7192 Integrated Computing Seminar (Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012) *
CPSC 7321 Operating Systems (Fall 2004, Fall 2005)
CPSC 7341 Telecommunications and Networking (Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Spring 2008,
Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2016)
CPSC 7342 Advanced Computer Networks (Spring 2006)
CPSC 7343 Sensor Networks (Fall 2009, Fall 2011, Spring 2015) *
Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of South Florida
EEL 4781C Distributed Processing and Computer Networks (Fall 2003, Spring 2004, Summer
2004)
SERVICE
Service Activities for University
Committee Assignments
Committee Name Role Level Duration User Experience Design Web/Mobile
Development Undergraduate Certificate
Program Working Group
Member University Fall 2013 - present
* New course I have developed
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Internet2 Executive
Liaison
University Spring 2013 - present
Chair's Council Member University Fall 2012 - present Graduate Council Member University Fall 2010 - Summer 2013 Graduate Council (Personnel
subcommittee) Member University Fall 2011 - Summer 2013
Graduate Council (Curriculum
subcommittee) Member University Fall 2010 - Summer 2011
Integrated Computing Doctoral Program Member College Summer 2013 - present Integrated Computing Doctoral Program Chair College Summer 2010 - Fall 2012 Integrated Computing Doctoral Program Net-Integrated
Computing Track
Coordinator
College Summer 2010 - Summer
2013
Integrated Computing Doctoral Program
Task Force Member College Spring 2005 - Spring 2010
Award Member College Spring 2012 - Fall 2012 Graduate Curriculum Member College Fall 2011 - Fall 2012 Constitution Amendment Member College Fall 2010 - Spring 2011 Faculty Search Member Department Fall 2009 - Spring 2010 Technology Member Department Spring 2008-present
Sys. Admin. Search Member Department Spring 2008
Sys. Admin. Search Chair Department Spring 2007
Graduate Curriculum Member Department Fall 2005 – Fall 2014
Graduate Admission Member Department Fall 2005 - Fall 2008
Undergraduate Curriculum Member (ad hoc) Department Fall 2004 - Summer 2005
Other Assignments
o Chair of Computer Science, UALR (Fall 2012 – present)
o Director, NSA/ DHS Designated National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense
Education (CAE-CDE), UALR (Fall 2012 - present)
o Founding Director of UALR Computational Research Center, UALR (Summer 2012 -
present)
o Director of High Performance Computing Facility, UALR (Summer 2010 - Spring 2012)
o Manager of High Performance Computing Facility, UALR (Spring 2008 - Spring 2010)
Community Outreach and Student Recruitment Serving as a Computer Science Framework Development Committee to establish and revise a
Computer Science Framework, "Essentials of Computer Programming (grade 9-12)" (a
framework used by all public schools in Arkansas to follow effective July 2015).
Regularly representing the Computer Science Department at the Information Fair during the Open
House on UALR Campus for recruiting students.
Attended Bryant High School Mobile Applications Open House, 11/29, 2012
Attended EIT Sneak Preview Weekend, 11/9 - 11/10, 2012
Attended EIT Job Fair, 2/16, 2012
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Research Mentoring of one high school student (Karam Sra from Highland High School) on
Public Key Encryption for three weeks during Summer 2011.
Research Mentoring of one high school student (Alec Crow from ASMSA) on Benchmarking of
MPI programs on High Performance Computer for three weeks during Summer 2010.
Research Mentoring of one high school student (Greg Thompson from Pine Bluff High School)
on Channel Optimization in Heterogeneous Wireless Network Technologies for three weeks
during Summer 2009.
Research Mentoring (with Drs. Chiang and Ramaswamy) of one high school student on A Study
of Security in Java for three weeks during Summer 2008.
Judge: LISA Academy Science Fair, February 2008, Little Rock AR.
Research Mentoring (with Dr. Seker) of two high school students (Jason Ellis from ASMSA and
Seth Pigg from Mulberry High school) on Mobile Phishing for ten days during Summer 2006.
Represented recruitment activities at Little Rock Christian Academy, Spring 2005.
Service Activities for Professional Community Editorial Board Member
o IET Wireless Sensor Systems (2013 - present)
Invited Editor
o River Publishers Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility - Special Issue on Big Data
Theory and Practice (2012 - present)
Advisory Board Member
o Center for Molecular Design and Development, UALR (only member from the
institution)
o Critical Task Site Selection, Information Technology Training Center (ITTC) at the
National Guard Professional Education Center
o Missouri EPSCoR
Program Co-Chair
o The 8th Central Area Networking and Security Workshop (CANSec 2015)
o IEEE International Symposium on High Assurance Systems Engineering (HASE 2015)
Technical Committee Co-Chair
o International Workshop on Service Assurance in System Wide Information Management
(SASWIM2015)
Session Organizer
o IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control - Smart Grids (2012-
present)
o IEEE International Symposium on High Assurance Systems Engineering - Panel Session
(HASE 2016-2017)
o The 8th Central Area Networking and Security Workshop - Panel Session (CANSec
2015)
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Program Committee Member
o TRON Symposium (2015 - present)
o International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (2013 -
present)
o World Wide Security and Mobility Conference (2013 - present)
o IEEE Global Wireless Summit (2012 - present)
o IEEE International High Assurance Systems Engineering (2010 - present)
o International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (2012 -
present)
o International Conference on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking (2010 -
2012)
o IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing (2010 & 2011)
o IEEE International Conference on Internet Multimedia Systems Architecture and
Application (2010)
o Global Educational Technology Symposium (2005 & 2009)
o Conference on Applied Research in Information Technology (2009)
o IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (2008)
Session Chair
o TRON Symposium (2015-present)
o International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (2010)
o IEEE Consumer Communications Network Conference (2008)
o International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations (2007)
o Global Educational Technology Symposium (2005)
o IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (2005)
o IEEE Local Computer Networks Conference (2005)
o Global Educational Technology Symposium (2005)
Reviewer
o IEICE Transactions on Communications (2009 - present)
o Wiley International Journal of Network Management (2009 - present)
o Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems (2009 - present)
o IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (2009 - present)
o IEEE Design and Test (2006 - present)
o IEEE Transaction Parallel Distributed Computer (2006 - present)
o IEEE Communications Magazine (2006 - present)
o ACT Press International Journal of Computers and Applications (2006 - present)
o International Journal of Computers and Applications (2006 - present)
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o IEEE Communications Letters (2006 - present)
o Reviewer for many international conferences and workshops (2001 - presents)
o NSF Panelist
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAININGS ATTENDED
Intel Cybersecurity Workshop, Hillsboro Oregon, July 21-22, 2014.
Professional Development Program - Strategic Planning, Faculty Development and
Administration, UALR April 17, 2013.
Applicant Tracking System Training, Human Resources, UALR, March 6 2013.
Professional Development Program - Legal Issues, Faculty Development and Administration,
UALR, January 25, 2013.
Professional Development Program - Hiring, Faculty Development and Administration, UALR,
November 29, 2012.
Weekly CI Training Lecture Series, On-line (Spring 2010 to Spring 2012)
CI Training Day, Oakridge National Laboratory, Oakridge TN, March 15, 2011
CI Training Day, Texas Advanced Computing Center, Austin TX, January, 2010
SC08 Education Program Summer Workshop on Applications of HPC, Grids, and Parallel
Computing to Science Education, August 10 – 16, 2008, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK.
Parallel and Cluster Computing Workshop, October 2, 2007, University of Oklahoma, Norman,
OK.
Great Plains Grid School, August 7-10, 2007, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), Senior Member
RELATED EXPERIENCES
Department Chair (Fall 2012 – present)
Successfully led the department to be ranked in “The 50 Most Innovative Computer Science
Departments in the U.S.” http://www.computersciencedegreehub.com/50-innovative-computer-
science-departments/.
Successfully led ABET program accreditation process and prepared the self-study report for B.S.
in Computer Science program (accreditation is valid until 9/30/2020).
Successfully led the department to achieve 100% increase in enrollment for undergraduate
program within three academic years (from 2013 to 2016).
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Successfully led the department to achieve over 100% enrollment increases for MS program in
two academic years (from 2013 to 2015).
Successfully led the department to receive 5 NSF awards during a 12-month period (2013-2014).
Consulting students for their degree plan, career plan, academic dispute, etc.
Handling daily queries associated with the department.
Taking an active role in recruitment of prospective students by visiting local high schools/
associated events.
Facilitating inter-departmental/college/institutional research collaborations.
Providing guidance and feedback to faculty for enhancing the teaching and learning environment.
Consulting faculty for identification and planning for external funding opportunities.
Leading new curriculum development processes (4+1 accelerated program, MS Online program,
etc).
Translating the strategic plan into department level implementation.
Representing the department and the college at external events.
Assigning teaching, committee duties to faculty, staff, and graduate assistant of the department.
Making annual budget requests and approving travel/purchase requests.
Approving visit of external scholar (visiting professors, postdoctoral fellows, and PhD students).
Evaluating faculty, staff, and graduate assistant for their job performance, and gave constructive
feedback for areas to be improved.
Working on articulation of agreements with other institutions.
Leading the MS Computer Science program review for the Arkansas Department of Higher
Education.
Information Assurance and Security Initiatives (Fall 2008 – present)
Management: I am leading the long-term and immediate management and planning of the Information
Assurance Initiative at UALR.
Serving as the Director of NSA/ DHS Designated National Center of Academic Excellence in
Cyber Defense Education (CAE-CDE), (Fall 2012 - present).
Successfully led the institution to receive the new CAE -CDE designation (New designation is
valid for 2014-2021 academic year).
Successfully developed a new curriculum for Bachelor of Professional Study with concentration
in IA.
Co-advised for UALR Cyber Defense Club (team placed 1st in Arkansas and 5th in Southwest
regional final at 2015 Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition).
Served as a judge for Cyber-Defense Competition at the 6th Central Area Networking and
Security Workshop held at Lawrence, Kansas on October 26, 2014.
Had UALR sign a MoU with the National Defense University to continue the pathway for
officers to be able to study at UALR.
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Participated to the iCollege Academic Partner Open House at National Defense University.
Contributed to prepare the initial 2008 application for NSA designated information assurance
center.
Established a partnership with LaVern E. Weber National Guard Professional Education Center
(PEC).
Served as a member of NSA/DHS Designated National Center of Academic Excellence in
Information Assurance Education (CAE-IAE) (Fall 2008 - Summer 2012).
Served as the director of NSA/DHS Designated National Center of Academic Excellence in
Information Assurance Education (CAE-IAE) (Fall 2012 - Fall 2014).
Serving as a board member of Critical Task Site Selection to develop the Critical Individual Task
List for the course, conditions and standards for every task identified, and the task's performance
steps and measures with corresponding skills and knowledge for the National Guard PEC.
Leading the development of online program for Bachelor of Professional Study with
concentration in IA.
Grant Activities: I have successfully acquired grants to develop, expand, and sustain the Information
Assurance program at UALR.
“PROMISE: A Platform for Competition and Education in Cyber Security,” National Science
Foundation, Duration: September 1, 2016 – August 31, 2019, Amount: $276,424, Role: Co-PI.
“An Integrative Approach to Integratable, Compsable and Evolvable Cybersecurity in Energy
Delivery Systems,” Department of Energy, Duration: October 2015 – September 2020, Amount:
$12,226,504, Role: Senior Personnel.
"Enhancing The Capabilities of UALR and IRMC through a joint Partnership Agreement", DoD
Information Assurance Scholarship Program, National Security Agency, June 2013 - May 2014.
Amount: $2,467 (and up to $414,563 scholarship fund), Role: PI.
"REU Site: CyberSAFE@UALR: Cyber Security and Forensics Research at University of
Arkansas at Little Rock", Amount: $289,660, Role: Co-PI.
Enhancing The Capabilities of UALR and IRMC through a joint Partnership Agreement", DoD
Information Assurance Scholarship Program, National Security Agency, September 2012 -
December 2013. Amount: $22,863 (and up to $417,030 scholarship fund), Role: PI.
"Enhancing The Capabilities of UALR and IRMC through a joint Partnership Agreement", DoD
Information Assurance Scholarship Program, National Security Agency, September 2011 -
December 2012. Amount: $2432.50 (and up to $415,370 scholarship fund), Role: Co-PI.
“CRI: II-EN: Stream Computing for Research and Education in Science and Engineering,”
National Science Foundation, Duration: September 2009 – August 2012, $400,000, Role: PI
“Collaborative Research: Cyberinfrastructure for Transformational Scientific Discovery in
Arkansas and West Virginia (CI-Train),” National Science Foundation, Duration: September
2009 – August 2012, Amount: $5,056,428, Role: Campus Lead.
“Arkansas ASSET: Advancing and Supporting Science, Engineering and Technology,” National
Science Foundation, Duration: August 2007 – July 2010, $13,168,123, Role: Senior Personnel.
“Development of an Interdisciplinary Arkansas Emulation Laboratory,’ National Science
Foundation, Duration: August 2006 – July 2009, Amount: $299,750, Role: Senior Personnel.
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High Performance Computing and Big-data Initiatives (Summer 2007 –
present) Management: I have been leading the long-term and immediate management and planning of the HPC
and Big-data initiatives at UALR.
Serving as the founding director of the UALR Computational Research Center (CRC) (Summer
2012 - present).
Served as the director of the HPC Center (Summer 2010 - Summer 2012).
Served as the manager of the HPC Center (Summer 2008 - Summer 2010).
Monthly reported the status of the HPC Center to the Dean of the College of Engineering and
Information Technology.
Annually reported the status of the research productivity to NSF Program Directors/Managers.
Managed relocation (June 2010), purchase, and upgrade of HPC system.
Led the design and purchase of HPC systems.
Identified, established, and sustained collaborations with other HPC and related organizations
Participated to building plan meetings for the new building where HPC clusters are currently
housed.
Recruited HPC users in and outside of UALR, and hosted user group meetings.
Grant Activities: I have successfully acquired grants to develop, expand, and sustain HPC infrastructure,
research, and education activities at UALR.
“Tuning Synchronous Performance of Trans-Pacific Databases,” Jaimeg LLC, Duration
December 1, 2015 – December 31, 2015, Amount: $3,333, Role: PI.
"Academic Research Enhancement Awards: Developing Integrative Approaches for Identifying
Disease-causing Genes and Dysfunctional Networks", National Institute of Health, Duration: July
1, 2015 – June 30, 2018, Amount: $373,520, Role: Co-Investigator.
"Convex Optimization for Big Data Applications", UAMS, Duration: October 2014 - December
2015 - August 31, 2013, $27,837, Role: PI.
"MRI: Acquisition of Peta-scale Data Storage System for Big Data Exploration in STEM Fields,"
National Science Foundation, Duration: September 2014 – August 2017, Amount: $291,908 plus
$ 125,013 institutional match - $417,011 total, Role: PI.
"MRI: Acquisition of a Cloud Computing Infrastructure for Research and Education", National
Science Foundation, Duration: September 2013 - August 2016, $108,125 125 plus $ 46,340
institutional match ($154,465 total), Role: Co-PI.
“Large-scale Complex Network and Social Media Analysis”, UAMS, Duration: January 14, 2013
- August 31, 2013, $25,000, Role: PI.
“CRI: II-EN: Stream Computing for Research and Education in Science and Engineering,”
National Science Foundation, Duration: September 2009 - August 2012, $400,000, Role: PI
“Collaborative Research: Cyberinfrastructure for Transformational Scientific Discovery in
Arkansas and West Virginia (CI-Train),” National Science Foundation, Duration: September
2009 - August 2012, Amount: $5,056,428, Role: Campus Lead.
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“Arkansas ASSET: Advancing and Supporting Science, Engineering and Technology,” National
Science Foundation, Duration: August 2007 - July 2010, $13,168,123, Role: Senior Personnel.
“Modeling, Analysis and Crop Prediction for Farming Environments – REU Supplement to
MRI,” National Science Foundation, Duration: August 2009-July 2010, Amount: $11,863, Role:
Senior Personnel.
“REU Supplement to MRI,” National Science Foundation, Duration: August 2007 - July 2008,
Amount: $12,635, Role: Senior Personnel.
“Development of an Interdisciplinary Arkansas Emulation Laboratory,’ National Science
Foundation, Duration: August 2006 -July 2009, Amount: $299,750, Role: Senior Personnel.
SC Education: I have done the following activities in order to outreach individuals at UALR and the state
of Arkansas on Super Computing (SC) education.
1. Organized Cyberinfrastructure Day at UALR, May 2012.
2. Organized parallel programming workshop, UALR, Summer 2009 & February 2010.
3. Hosted weekly online cyberinfrastructure training for Arkansas and West Virginia.
4. Presentation at a workshop sponsored by Arkansas Science & Technology Authority (ASTA)
5. Introduction to High Performance Computing, WiNS Center Nanotechnology and Healthcare
Education Training Workshop, Fayetteville, AR, July 29 2009.
6. SC Education Program – Organized two teams to attend SC Education Program 2009 from the
state of Arkansas, and developed the description, project description, and a role description for
each individual as a team lead.
7. Others:
Regularly attended SC Conferences – International Conference for High Performance
Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, TeraGrid Conference; Oklahoma
Supercomputing Symposium; and CI-Day events.
Attended SC08 Education Program Summer Workshop on Applications of HPC, Grids, and
Parallel Computing to Science Education at University of Oklahoma (summer 2008).
Attended Parallel and Cluster Computing Workshop at University of Oklahoma on October 2,
2007.
Attended Great Plains Grid School at University of Nebraska (August 7-10, 2007).
Integrated Computing PhD Program Coordinator (Summer 2010 – Fall 2012)
Service to Prospective Students
Advising of Prospective Students: Communicated with prospective students to address their
various inquires.
Admission Process: Coordinated the program’s admissions process; issue and send the decision
letters to the Graduate School.
Service to Current Students
Student Transfer: Coordinated the process of student transfer from other UALR programs; sent
documentation and coordinated with the Graduate School the process of transfer approval.
Student Registration: Prepared/approved the registration and advisement form; created
dissertation research course sections.
Student Advising: Advised all doctoral students enrolled in the program throughout the
academic year.
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Student Credit Transfer: Approved decision for all student credit transfer requests; sent the
approved transfer decision to the Graduate School.
Candidacy Exams: Approved students’ candidacy exam requests; scheduled exam; coordinated
the exams requests with program faculty; collected the prepared tests from faculty; distributed
and collected the tests on the exam days; supervised the examinations on the exam day;
distributed the solved tests and collect the graded tests to/from the program faculty; issued the
pass/fail candidacy exam letters; sent the pass/fail letters to the Graduate School; informed
students about their results.
Student Dissertation: Approved dissertation committees, dissertation proposals, and dissertation
defenses forms; sent all these forms to the Graduate School.
Student Travel Request: Coordinated the student travel award process and approved decision
for all student travel requests.
Graduation Application: Checked the entire student academic record against the graduation
requirements; approved decision for all graduation applications.
Program Administration
Graduate Assistantship Award Process: Coordinated with program faculty to rank the potential
awardees from the pool of current and prospective qualified students; participated in the Graduate
Teaching Assistantship (GTA) Award Committee meetings.
Governing Committee Meetings: Scheduled, chaired, and facilitated the monthly (or special)
program governing committee meetings; prepared the meeting agenda and took the minutes.
Program Graduate Catalog Description: Prepared/updated the program’s Graduate Catalog.
Program Advertisement: Prepared/updated the program’s description on the EIT Graduate
Programs presentation flyer.
Program Website: Coordinated with Departments’ Chairs and IT Specialists the design and
basic content of the program website; coordinated with the Program Track Chairs the detailed
content of the program website.
Program Support: Participated in the Academic Support Specialist (Graduate Programs) Search
Committee.
Program Processes: Identified/developed/updated/sought approval/implemented processes to
manage the program, such as: new application review process, candidacy exams format,
dissertation committee membership rules, external speaker nomination guidelines, etc.
Program Curriculum: Coordinated the program/course changes for the entire program;
coordinated with ENSS doctoral program to reduce course duplication.
Colloquium/Seminar (CPSC/IFSC/SYEN 7192): Coordinated the process for
selection/invitation of eminent external speakers via nomination/selection guideline; facilitated
and arranged internal speakers; prepared the weekly seminars schedule; coordinated between the
two programs for offering joint seminar sessions.
Program Assessment: Developed the program assessment plan, and prepared the annual
program assessment reports.
Student Forms: Prepared/updated student handbook and various student forms, such as plan of
study form, independent study request form, dissertation advisor selection form, etc.
Lab Rotation (CPSC/IFSC/SYEN 7145): Facilitated monthly lab rotation for student/faculty
(Spring 2011).
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