Dr. Mohamed F. Chouikha received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Prague Polytechnic University in the Czech Republic and the M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado in Boulder. He was an Electrical Engineer at the Societe Tunisienne Des Phosphates De Gafsa, from 1988 to August 2018 he was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Howard University, where he was a Full Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In July 2000 he became the Chair of the EE Department. In 2004, he established a new Computer Engineering program within the Department of Electrical Engineering, since then renamed as the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Howard University. Before becoming the chair he served as the Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of Electrical Engineering. Since 2018 he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, in the College of Engineering at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) where he is Chief Scientist, Executive Director of the Cybersecurity Center and Executive Professor. He was the founding Director of the Intelligent Community-Center of Academic Excellence, the founding and first Director of the Center of Applied High Performance Computing, and one of the four founding Directors of the Washington Academy of Biomedical Engineering. He has been a consultant to a number of companies in the Washington area and was a Board member of Quateams Inc.

Dr. Annamalai is presently a Full Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Prairie View A&M University. He also works very closely under the direction of Dr. Chouikha, he is Dr. Chouikha`s Associate. He has over twenty years of research/teaching experience in wireless communications at Motorola, University of Victoria, Air Force Research Laboratory, Virginia Tech, and PVAMU with over 200 peer-reviewed publications and 6 book chapters. He has also directed 15 Ph.D. dissertations and 25 M.S.E.E. theses to completion as Chair at PVAMU and Virginia Tech. His current research interests include cooperative wireless communications, wireless physical layer security, cross-layer design and optimization of wireless networks, cognitive radios, wireless communications theory, and assistive technologies.

Akshay “AK” Raghavendra Kulkarni is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), where he leads the Security, Privacy, Assurance Research & Knowledge (SPARK) Lab at the SECURE Center of Cybersecurity Excellence. Prior to joining PVAMU, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the Florida Institute of Cybersecurity (FICS) at the University of Florida. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toledo in 2023, and his Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunication from the University of Mumbai, India. Before pursuing his Ph.D., he gained extensive industry experience in India and New Zealand. Dr. Kulkarni’s research focuses on hardwarerooted cybersecurity and assured microelectronics, with emphasis on intelligent, adaptive, and resilient security mechanisms for emerging computing platforms. His interests span microelectronics supply chain security, hardware IP protection, fault injection and side-channel attack analysis, hardware Trojan generation and detection, and hardware security evaluation. His recent work advances AI/ML- and reinforcement learning–guided side-channel attacks on post-quantum cryptography, EM-based hardware Trojan ecosystems, intelligent fault attack frameworks, secure and resilient quantum hardware, and hardware-rooted Zero Trust architectures integrating PUF authentication, blockchain-backed traceability, and trust scoring for securing critical cyberinfrastructure.

Dr. Samir I. Abood is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Prairie View A&M University and a Senior Member of IEEE. His research focuses on smart grids and microgrids, cybersecurity of cyber-physical power systems, SCADA security, artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, power electronics, and intelligent electric drives.
His current research emphasizes AI-driven intrusion detection, federated learning, explainable artificial intelligence, and cyber-resilient smart grid architectures. He has authored and co-authored numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers, and academic books in electrical engineering, power systems, and emerging intelligent technologies.
Dr. Abood actively contributes to the international research community through editorial responsibilities, peer reviewing, and IEEE leadership. He currently serves as Vice Chair of the IEEE Galveston Bay Section and participates in interdisciplinary research initiatives addressing the security, reliability, and resilience of modern energy systems.

Camille Gibson, Ph.D., C.R.C. is the Interim Dean of the College of Juvenile & Psychology at Prairie View A&M University and Executive Director of the Texas Juvenile Crime Prevention Center. She began in higher education teaching at Brooklyn College in Political Science, and concurrently at John Jay College in Public Administration. At Prairie View, her courses include CRJS 2813 Computer Applications to Criminal Justice which introduces students to the broad application of the latest technologies in the field, including cyber-investigations and computer forensics. She also directs the College’s certificate program in Homeland Security and Emergency Management. An accomplished academic, her professional service includes the board of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and the presidency of the Southwestern Association of Criminal Justice. She has been recognized with a Felix Fabian award and a Niederhoffer Fellowship.

Louis Ngamassi is currently an Associate Professor of Management Information Systems at Prairie View A&M University – College of Business. He received his Ph.D. in Information Sciences and Technology from Penn State University. His research interest is in the area of social informatics and includes sub-areas such as crisis informatics and development informatics. Louis has been published in several refereed journals including Journal of Information Technology, Journal of Information Technology and People, Journal of Organizational and End User Computing, and VOLUNTAS. He has also presented his work at a variety of national and international conferences including AMCIS, ISCRAM, and DSI. Louis is a former Fulbright scholar and a former United Nations Fulbright Fellow.

Dr. Mark Tschaepe is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Prairie View A&M University. He is also the Program Coordinator for General Studies and teaches the Honor Colloquium in the Fall semesters. He has published a wide range of research, including work on the role of guessing in logical thinking, the virtues of humility to inquiry, and how to address microaggressions. This spring his essay, “Data Without Democracy: The Cruel Optimism of Education Technology and Assessment” is being published in the journal, Education & Culture. Additionally, his essay, “Somaesthetics of Discomfort” is being published in the forthcoming issue of The European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy. Currently, his research includes work on the ethics of cybersecurity, value-sensitive design, generative adversarial networks, and datafication within education.

Dr. Olusegun Odejide is presently a Lead Security Engineer with a major oil and gas drilling company in the Houston area. He is also an Adjunct Faculty at Prairie View A&M University as well as Lone Star College and Houston Community College where he has taught various IT and Cybersecurity courses for several years. He has developed and taught three graduate level Cybersecurity courses at Prairie View. His prior work experiences include working as a security professional in oil & gas as well as telecommunications industries. Dr. Odejide was a past recipient of the National Research Council Fellowship where he conducted communications research at the Air Force Research Laboratory (Rome, New York). He also holds multiple industry-recognized cybersecurity certifications including CISSP and CEH.