Current Projects and Activities

Dr. Guillermo A Francia, III

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Date Project/Activity Type
11/13/2009 Met with the proposal working group to discuss the RFP on Disaster Resilience for Rural Communities. The working group is comprised of multidisciplinary researchers from multiple departments at JSU. Internal-National
11/13/2009 Published a paper titled "Cryptographic and Steganographic Approaches to Ensure Multimedia Information Security and Privacy" with Drs. Ming Yang and Monica Trifas (Jacksonville State Univ) and Dr. Lei Chen (Sam Houston State Univ) in the International Journal of Information Security and Privacy. Vol. 3, No. 3, pp.37-54, July-September, 2009 issue. External-International
11/08-11/10/2009 Traveled to Tampa, FL to attend the CAEIAE Principals' meeting sponsored by the National Security Agency (NSA). External-National
11/04/2009 Met and worked with the Identity Theft (Red Flag) ad-hoc committee in finalizing the ID Theft policy manual for JSU. Internal-Local
10/26/2009 Traveled to Mississippi State University in Starkville, MS to pursue collaborative work with the Critical Infrastructure Protection Center (CIPC) and the National Forensics Training Center directed by Dr. David Dampier. Traveled with Drs. Turner, Scroggins, Spain, and Buttram. Internal-Regional
10/20/2009 Completed and submitted an NSF grant proposal titled "Advanced Risk Management Simulation (ARMS-REU)"(#1004097--$352,800) with Dr. David Thornton (PI) and Dr. Aaron Garrett (co-PI). Grant
10/15/2009 Served in JSU's Fulbright Campus Committee. Interviewed a Fulbright student applicant to Scotland. Internal
10/12/2009 Traveled to the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Hunstville to meet with Alabama Homeland Security Virtual Alabama representatives for the Community Resiliency Project. Traveled with Drs. Kushma and Hill. External-State
09/16/2009 Completed and submitted an NSF grant proposal titled "MRI-R2:Acquisition for the Critical Infrastructure Security and Assessment Laboratory (CISAL)" (#0959687--$641,759)" with Dr. Ming Yang (co-PI), Dr. Aaron Garrett (co-PI), Dr. N. Beckhouche (co-PI), and Mr. Terry Marbut (co-PI). Grant
09/07/2009 Completed and submitted application reviews and recommendations to the Institute of International Education (IIE) .Peer reviews are for the 2009-2010 Fulbright applications in computer science. External-National
08/05/2009 Served in JSU's Ad-hoc Identity Theft Committee. Started designing JSU's ID Theft policy using University of Missouri's policy as a model. Internal-Local
07/24/2009 Completed the design of the Taizhou University-Jacksonville State University Joint 1-2-1 Computer Science program. Presented it to the Taizhou delegation who came to visit JSU in July, 2009. Internal-External
07/13-07/16/2009 Traveled to Las Vegas, NV to present two papers: "Security Metrics-Review and Research Directions" at the Security and Management 2009 Conference and "Applied Data Mining in a Scholarship Program" in the Frontiers of Education in Computer Engineering and Science Conference 2009. External-International
07/10/2009 Met with Dr. Jane Kushma. Discussed the Community Resiliency Project funded by CARRI and the Department of Homeland Security. Started working on the project. Grant
06/09-06/17/2009 Traveled and worked for the Advanced Placement reading in Computer Science (AP-CS) for the Educational Testing Service (ETS) in Cincinatti, OH. External-National
06/01/2009 Traveled to Seattle, WA to receive JSU's award as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education (CAEIAE). This designation is provided by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Award-National
05/19/2009 Completed and submitted an NSF grant proposal titled "Vertical Integration of Security" (#0940906--$199,764) with Dr. S. Krishnaprasad (PI), Dr. Aaron Garrett (co-PI), Dr. Ming Yang (co-PI) , and Dr. Monica Trifas (co-PI). Grant
05/15/2009 Traveled to Bangkok, Thailand to initiate academic and research partnership with Assumption University. Dr. Andrew Ciganek and Dr. Guillermo Francia met with Dr. Srisakdi Charmonman, the CEO of the College of Internet Distance Education at Assumption University. External-International
05/12/2009 Awarded the Raymond and Ruth Ringer Faculty Development Award for Service, Teaching, and Research. Award-University
05/03/2009 Published a paper titled "A Model for Section 404 Compliance using Fuzzy Logic Processing" with Dr. Jeffrey Zanzig (Jacksonville State Univ) and Dr. Dale Flesher (Univ of Mississippi) in the Proceedings of the American Accounting Association 2009 Southeast Region Meeting University, Mississippi, April 30-May 02, 2009. External-National
04/20/2009 Worked with the selection committee of the EMCETS2 Scholarship Program to award scholarship grants. Internal-National
04/14/2009 Published a paper titled "Applied Image Processing to Multimedia Information Security" with Ming Yang and Monica Trifas in the Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Image Analysis and Signal Processing (IASP 2009). External-International
04/10-04/16/2009 Traveled to China to deliver the keynote address at the 2009 International Conference on Image Analysis and Signal Processing (IASP 2009). External-International
02/28/2009 Received designation as a Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Award-International