Mohamed F. Chouikha, PhD
Chief Scientist & Executive Director, SECURE Cybersecurity Center of Excellence
Executive Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Email: [email protected]
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.
Annamalai Annamalai, PhD
Associate Director, SECURE Cybersecurity Center of Excellence
Professor & Interim Department Head, Electrical & Computer Engineering
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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.
Camille Gibson, Ph.D., C.R.C.
Professor and Interim Dean
College of Juvenile & Psychology
Executive Director
Texas Juvenile Crime Prevention Center
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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, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Accounting, Finance, & MIS
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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.
Cajetan M. Akujuobi, M.B.A., Ph.D., P.E.
Founding Principal Investigator , SECURE Cybersecurity Center of Excellence
Founding Executive Director, Center of Excellence for Communication Systems Technology Research (CECSTR)
Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Email: [email protected]
Mark Tschaepe, PhD
Associate Professor, Philosophy
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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.
Justin Foreman, PhD
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Justin Foreman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, Texas. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina A&T State University. He has worked at NASA Langley Research Center as a National Research Council Research Associate and as an employee of GeoControl Systems, Inc. supporting various NASA Johnson Space Center efforts as a Test Director, Test Engineer and Systems Engineer. He also taught at Lone Star College in Houston, TX. His research interests include Internet of Things medical sensors and networks and development of programs to foster student learning of programmable devices.
Ahmed Ahmed, PhD
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
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Dr. Ahmed is an Assistant Professor at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU). He joined the Department of Computer Science at PVAMU in the fall of 2017, right after earning his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Saskatchewan in August 2017. His research interests are in the fields of Parallel and Distributed Systems with applications in various domains such as Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). After joining PVAMU, he is actively involved in several research projects, including IoT & Machine Learning applications. He is teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, and he is eager to transfer his passion and experience to underrepresented students at PVAMU by involving them in research. He has extensive experience in mentoring undergraduate and graduate students to do research.
Olusegun Odejide, PhD
Adjunct, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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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.
Suxia Cui,PhD
Associate Professor Electrical & Computer Engineering
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Dr. Suxia Cui is currently an associate professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU). She joined PVAMU right after she received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, in 2003. Her research interests include cybersecurity, machine learning, and image processing. Her research is sponsored by US Department of Agriculture, National Science Foundation, Department of Defense, and Department of Education.
Shumon Alam, PhD
Research Scientist, SECURE
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Dr. Shumon Alam is a Lead Researcher of SECURE Center of Excellence at Prairie View A&M University. Prior to this position, he held various engineering positions in the industry. He also worked as a researcher for many years in academia. Alam worked in the area of control, communication systems, network architecture, and signal processing. His current research interests are in the cybersecurity, Internet of Things (IoT), and artificial intelligence (AI).