Cyber-Risk Informatics

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. M. Sahinoglu, Professor Emeritus from DEU and METU, Ankara, Turkey (1999), and formerly the Distinguished Professor of AUM (2008), is the founder of the Informatics Institute (2009) and its SACS-accredited (2010) and National Security Agency (NSA)-certified (2013) Cybersystems and Information Security (CSIS) flagship graduate program (the first such full degree program in Southeastern United States) at Auburn University’s metropolitan campus at Montgomery, Alabama. Formerly, he is the founder Dean of Arts and Sciences, the founder Chair of the Department of (Computational) Statistics at DEU/Izmir (1992–1997), the visiting Fulbright and NATO Scholar at Purdue University (1989–1990, 1997–1998) and Case Western Reserve University (1998–1999), and the Eminent Scholar and Computer Science Department’s Chair-Professor at the Troy University Montgomery campus (1999–2008); Dr. Sahinoglu has a BSEE from METU/Ankara (1973), MSEE from the University of Manchester, UK (1975), and Ph.D. in ECE and Statistics from Texas A&M University (1981). Dr. Sahinoglu taught at Texas A&M University (1978–1981), METU/Ankara (1982–1992) and DEU/Izmir (1992–1997), Purdue University (1989–1990, 1997–1998), CWRU (1998–1999), Troy University at Montgomery (1999–2008), and AUM (2008–). He is the recipient of Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Curriculum (TCC) award as one of 14 in the world (2006) and is a fellow member of SDPS (www.sdpsnet.org), IEEE Senior Life member (www.ieee.org