Associate Professor
Computer Engineering and Sciences
Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Central Florida, 2003
M.S., Computer Science, University of Central Florida, 1995
B.S., Computer Science, University of Central Florida, 1992
Dr. William Allen is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Florida Institute of Technology, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses, performs research on a variety of cybersecurity-related issues and advises graduate students. His dissertation research investigated techniques for the detection of attacks in network traffic and the simulation of network denial-of-service attacks. At Florida Tech, he has served as the major advisor for ten PhD students whose dissertation research focused on such topics as secure software development, cloud security policy, software security metrics, application security, usable security, digital forensics and the coordination and control of a smart home system. He also advised students whose Master’s theses included synthetic attack generation and coordination, detection and mitigation of attacks on mobile devices, detection of emulated environments, automated application testing, peer-to-peer file sharing and IoT security. To date, he has been the author or coauthor of over fifty peer-reviewed publications and one patent. Dr. Allen has led curriculum development for computer science and cybersecurity courses and has taught courses on networking, computer architecture, operating systems and assembly language programming, as well as on computer and network security.
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