Welcome My current role at Towson is as the chair of the Department of Mathematics, a role I have had since 2015. I am the PI on an NSF funded project with Alexei Kolesnikov and Lindsey-Kay Lauderdale to provide scholarships to high-achieving, low-income Towson mathematics students with demonstrated financial need.

From 2011-2015, I was the founding Director of the School of Emerging Technology. The School of Emerging Technologies (SET) at Towson University works to advance interdisciplinary and collaborative educational and research programs that address the development, application, implications and ramifications of emerging technologies.

I was the director of the Center for Applied Information Technology (2007-2012) and the graduate director of the Integrated Homeland Security Management Masters program (2008-2012).

My primary research interest is in the development of improved mathematical algorithms for the geographic profiling problem, which is the problem of estimating the location of a serial criminal's home base from the known locations of the crimes. This work has been sponsored by the National Institute of Justice.

I have a joint appointment with the Department of Computer and Information Sciences where I work on cyber security, and cyber security competitions. I have coached the Towson team to the finals of the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NCCDC) in 2010, 2012 and 2014. I teach the capstone, hands-on course in the cyberoperations track for the computer science major, and am the author of the book Cyber Operations (2nd ed., 2019) (1st ed., 2015) which I use as the textbook for the course.

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