He received his Ph.D. degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona. His research interests lie in information assurance education, data mining, social network analysis, and security informatics. Dr. Kaza’s work has been published in top-tier journals like Decision Support Systems, IEEE Transactions, ACM Transactions, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology and various international conferences and has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Department of Defense, and the Maryland Higher Education Commission. Speaking Schedule