2026 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

1. Prof. Oguzhan Topsakal University of South Florida [biography]

   Oguzhan Topsakal, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Instruction and Director of Accreditation at the Bellini College of AI, Cybersecurity & Computing, University of South Florida. His work focuses on AI-augmented learning for education, deep learning for medical imaging, and digital surgery planning. He teaches AI, algorithms, automata, and database design. Previously, he was on the Computer Science faculty at Florida Polytechnic University. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. from the University of Florida and a B.Eng. from Istanbul Technical University.

2. Jing Wang University of South Florida
3. Dr. Schinnel Kylan Small University of South Florida [biography]

   Schinnel Small is an Instructor I and IT Director at the University of South Florida. She pursued a Bachelor-to-Doctorate path of study at Morgan State University and obtained her Bachelor of Science and Doctorate degrees in Electrical and Computer Engine

4. Taseef Rahman University of South Florida
5. James Anderson University of South Florida
6. William Joseph Gauvin University of South Florida [biography]

   I am currently working at Broadcom Inc/Symantec, as a technical director working in the Cyber Security Services/Global Government Engineering (CSS/GGE) group where I work as an architect, designing advanced malware detection and analysis tools using machine learning. I have 43 years of experience in networks and security; having personally been involved in the design and development of 3 firewalls, the AltaVista Firewall, Raptor Firewall and Symantec Gateway Security Firewall/UTM. In addition, I worked on a number of other security related technologies, a version of Norton Antivirus for the Small Mobile Environment / Portable Electronic Device, an advanced version of Data Loss Protection filtering and detection, a secure file reputation system, and Symantec Insight for Malware Researchers (a malware analysis tool).
   I am highly involved in Cyber Threat Information Sharing (CTIS), for which I was a member of the group that defined the protocols and language (STIX/TAXII) used by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to allow government and industries to share cyber threat intelligence. I was also a member of a group that is activity participating in the response to EO 14028, to provide recommendations on how to secure the software supply chain.
   I have been issued 28 patents on security technologies and received my PhD from the University of Massachusetts; my concentration was in using Machine Learning - Inference of Security Information using Social Networks.

   I have been teaching graduate and undergraduate classes since 1988, and teaching is a passion of mine. I am currently a Professor of Practice in Cybersecurity at the University of South Florida, teaching "Foundations of Cyber Security", "Network Security and Firewalls", "Network Programming" (at both the undergrad and graduate level) and "Reverse Engineering and Malware Analysis". My goal in these courses is to bring my real-world knowledge to the student, using state of the art technologies and hands-on assignments.

7. Dr. Ellyn Couillard http://orcid.org/0009-0005-0048-7191 University of South Florida [biography]

   Ellyn Couillard is the Director of Student Success for the University of South Florida (USF) Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing. Her research is focused on computing and STEM education. She teaches the first-year seminar, supports academic support services, career development, and student issues within the USF Bellini College. She previously served in administration, leadership, and/or faculty roles at Florida State University, USF Taneja College of Pharmacy, Paine College, and Mercer University. She holds a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from USF, MS in College Counseling from St. Cloud State University, and BA in Sociology from The University of Georgia.

8. Robert F. Dedrick University of South Florida [biography]

   Robert F. Dedrick is Professor and Coordinator of the Educational Measurement and Research Program in the College of Education at the University of South Florida. He specializes in the development and validation of psychological and educational measures, and teaches courses in research design, measurement, and statistics. His MA and PHD degrees are from the University of Michigan.

9. Dr. Ken Christensen P.E. http://orcid.org/0009-0003-4170-0521 University of South Florida [biography]

   Ken Christensen is Professor and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs in the Bellini College of AI, Cybersecurity and Computing at the University of South Florida. His research interests are at the intersection of networks and energy in the area of energy-efficient computing and communications systems, and application of communications to improve the storage, distribution, and use of energy in small grids. He has over 100 journal and conference publications and 13 U.S. patents. Ken received the PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University in 1991, MS from North Carolina State University in 1983, and BS from the University of Florida in 1981. Ken is an ABET EAC program evaluator. Ken is a licensed Professional Engineer in the state of Florida, a Senior Member of IEEE, and a member of ACM and ASEE

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