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• William L. Giles Distinguished Professor, and Billie J. Ball Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Director, Center for Computer Security Research Professor, Ph.D., Kansas State University Dr. Vaughn received his Ph.D. from Kansas State Univ...More

  William L. Giles Distinguished Professor, and Billie J. Ball Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Director, Center for Computer Security Research Professor, Ph.D., Kansas State University Dr. Vaughn received his Ph.D. from Kansas State University in 1988 and is currently the Billy J. Ball Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Mississippi State University. He teaches and conducts research in the areas of Software Engineering and Information Security. Prior to joining the University, he completed a twenty-six year career in the Army where he commanded the Army's largest software development organization and created the Pentagon agency that today centrally manages all Pentagon IT support. While on active duty with the Army, he served a three-year assignment with the National Security Agency's National Computer Security Center where he authored national level computer security guidance and conducted computer security research. Dr. Vaughn has over 100 publications to his credit and is an active contributor to software engineering and information security conferences and journals. He is actively engaged in high performance computing intrusion detection system research at Mississippi State University and established the MSU Center of Computer Security Research in 2001. In 2004, Dr. Vaughn was named a Mississippi State University Eminent Scholar and in 2005 he was given the “Most Outstanding Academic Award” by the National Colloquium on Information Systems Security Education. Today, Dr. Vaughn is the elected representative of all the principal investigators on the NSF Scholarship for Service program and member of the Interagency Coordinating Committee overseeing the SFS program. He maintains an active relationship with NSA as a part of the DOD Information Assurance Scholarship Program that MSU has been funded by since 2001. Less

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