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Alec
Yasinsac is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Florida State University.
He joined the FSU faculty in August 1999 after a twenty year career in the
United States Marines as a Data Systems and Communications Officer. He has
operational experience in software development, information systems
management, network engineering, and information security, having spent
active duty tours in Japan,
Korea, North
Carolina, California, and Virginia.
Alec received
his doctoral degree in Computer Science from the University of Virginia,
where his thesis advisor and mentor was Bill Wulf. His major research
interests are network and wireless security, electronic voting security,
secure software, cryptography, intrusion detection, computing forensics, and
security protocols. He has published over fifty refereed conference,
symposium, and journal papers since joining FSU. He is
presently funded by the National Science Foundation, Department of Defense,
the Army Research Office, the Florida Department of State, and several
industrial partners. He has directed two doctoral theses, fifteen
master's theses, and three undergraduate student theses. He has taught nearly
a hundred college courses in mathematics, computer science, and information
security.
Born and
raised in the mountains of North
Carolina, Alec attended Appalachian State University
for his undergraduate education, where he received his Bachelor of Science in
Mathematics. He then earned a Masters of Science degree in Computer Science
from the Naval Postgraduate School
while on active duty in the Marines.
Security
protocol verification is the foundation of Alec's research interests. He has
published papers on formal methods, cryptographic authentication, group
encryption, secure routing protocols, wireless security, intrusion detection,
digital forensics, and on a variety of computing education topics. He is a
member of several Program Committees including the 2008 ACM Conference on
Computer and Communication Security, The 3rd International Conference on
Availability, Reliability and Security, The Second International Conference
on Information Systems Security, IEEE Information Assurance Workshop, the
IRMA International Conferences, Eighth International Conference on
Information and Communications Security, and the International Performance
Computing and Communications Conference, and he is the program committee
chair for the Systematic Approach to Digital Forensic Engineering Workshop
2008.
Alec a senior member of IEEE, a member of ACM, U.S. Public Policy
Committee of the ACM, and the IEEE Computer Society.
The URL for his web page is http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~yasinsac/
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