SecDef Organizers
- Nur Zincir-Heywood, Dalhousie University, Canada
- Frank W. Moore, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA
Organizers' bios
Nur Zincir-Heywood is a Professor of Computer Science at Dalhousie University, Canada. She received her PhD in 1998 in Computer Science and Engineering from Ege University, Turkey. Prior to moving to Dalhousie in 2000, Dr. Zincir-Heywood had been a researcher at Sussex University, UK and Karlsruhe University, Germany as well as working as an instructor at the Internet Society Network Management workshops. She has published over 150 papers in network management, security , information systems and computational intelligence fields. She has substantial experience of industrial research in systems security and network management related topics with Raytheon, RUAG, Gtech, Palomino, Genieknows, and Public Safety Canada. Dr. ZincirHeywood is a member of the IEEE and ACM.
Frank W. Moore is Professor and Chair of the Computer Science & Engineering Department at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He has taught computer science and engineering for the past 17 years. He also has over six years of industry experience developing software for a wide range of military projects. His recent NASA-funded research (patent pending) used evolutionary computation to optimize transforms that outperform wavelets for lossy image compression and reconstruction. He has received over $750,000 in research funding and has published over 80 technical papers and reports. Dr. Moore is a Senior Member of ACM and a Member of IEEE.
