Louis with affiliation to the Cyber-security and Information Technology Innovation Lab (CITIL). Visiting Professor at the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, Visiting Professor at the University of Nairobi, and a Senior Research Fellow at the American Leadership & Policy Foundation (ALPF). Additionally, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor (Honorary) at the University of Tennessee in the College of Engineering within the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. Dawson has received two Fulbright Specialist Grants to Russia in 2014 [Project #5824/South Ural State University] and Bangladesh in 2016 [Project #6296/University of Rajshahi]. Dawson served a Visiting Scholar with the University of The Gambia through the International Studies and Programs (ISP) Fellowship awarded in 2014.