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Staff and Faculty

For general questions please email the program at  mscybersecurity@boisestate.edu

Computer Science Faculty

  • Nasir Eisty headshot

    Nasir Eisty

    Assistant Professor

    Research Areas: Software Engineering including Empirical Software Engineering, Research Software Engineering, Software Quality Assurance such as Software Testing, Peer Code Review, Software Metrics and Software Engineering Education

    CCP 360

    Research Areas: Software Engineering including Empirical Software Engineering, Research Software Engineering, Software Quality Assurance such as Software Testing, Peer Code Review, Software Metrics and Software Engineering Education

  • Amit Jain headshot

    Amit Jain

    Chair, Professor

    Research Area(s): Parallel Algorithms and High Performance Computing, Beowulf Clusters, Cluster Tools, Parallel Application Development, Parallel Algorithms and Data Structures, Large Scale Data Analysis

    Computer Science Department, CCP Room 355

    Research Area(s): Parallel Algorithms and High Performance Computing, Beowulf Clusters, Cluster Tools, Parallel Application Development, Parallel Algorithms and Data Structures, Large Scale Data Analysis

  • Hoda Mehrpouyan headshot

    Hoda Mehrpouyan

    Associate Professor

    Research Area(s): Privacy-Preserving Techniques; Requirements Engineering; System-Level Reliability Analysis; Resilient Complex Engineered Systems.

    CCP 252

    Research Area(s): Privacy-Preserving Techniques; Requirements Engineering; System-Level Reliability Analysis; Resilient Complex Engineered Systems.

  • Edoardo Serra headshot

    Edoardo Serra

    Associate Professor

    Research Area(s): Data Science, Algorithms, Cybersecurity, Data Mining

    Computer Science Department, CCP 349

    Research Area(s): Data Science, Algorithms, Cybersecurity, Data Mining

  • Francesca Spezzano headshot

    Francesca Spezzano

    Associate Professor

    Research Area(s): Social Network Analysis and Mining, Data Science

    Computer Science Department, CCP Room 348

    Research Area(s): Social Network Analysis and Mining, Data Science

  • Jyh-haw Yeh headshot

    Jyh-haw Yeh

    Professor of Computer Science

    Research Area: Computer Security

    Computer Science Department, CCP Room 247

    Research Area: Computer Security

Program Leadership

  • Maheshwar Boodraj headshot

    Maheshwar Boodraj, Ph.D., PMP, CISSP

    MS in Cybersecurity Co-Coordinator, Management emphasis; Assistant Professor

    Research Area(s): Technical Debt, Agile Software Development, IT Project Management, Information Security

    College of Business and Economics, MBEB 2111

    Research Area(s): Technical Debt, Agile Software Development, IT Project Management, Information Security

  • Doug Twitchell headshot

    Doug Twitchell, Ph.D.

    MS in Cybersecurity Advisor, Management emphasis; Professor and Department Chair, Information Technology

    Research Area(s): Behavioral Information Security

    MBEB 3249

    Research Area(s): Behavioral Information Security

  • Liljana Babinkostova headshot

    Liljana Babinkostova, Ph.D.

    MS in Cybersecurity Co-Coordinator, Cryptanalysis and Signals Analysis emphasis; Professor of Mathematics

    Research Area(s): Cryptography, Cryptanalysis and Side-Channel Analysis, Privacy-Preserving Computing and Game Theory

    MB 237A

    Research Area(s): Cryptography, Cryptanalysis and Side-Channel Analysis, Privacy-Preserving Computing and Game Theory

  • Jyh-haw Yeh headshot

    Jyh-haw Yeh

    MS in Cybersecurity Co-Coordinator, Computer Science emphasis; Professor of Computer Science

    Research Area: Computer Security

    CCP 247

    Research Area: Computer Security

Management Faculty

Mathematics Faculty

Electrical and Computer Engineering