Dr. David A Dampier

Dean of CECS

WAEC 2103K

304-696-3066

Biography

Dr. Dave Dampier has been Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Sciences at Marshall University since August 2020. In this role, he is responsible for supervision of four academic departments with 37 faculty offering 8 undergraduate degrees and 8 graduate degrees. Additionally, the college has a research portfolio of over $15 Million. He also serves as the Executive Director of the Institute for Cyber Security (ICS), a university level center focusing on Research, Teaching and Outreach since October 2021. The ICS is responsible for research in cyber security and has a portfolio of over $7 Million. Prior to Marshall, Dr. Dampier served as Chair of the Department of Information Systems and Cyber Security at U.T. San Antonio. Prior to that he served as Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and founding director of the Distributed Analytics and Security Institute at Mississippi State University. He has over 70 peer reviewed publications and nearly $60M in external funding. Before academia, he spent 20 years in the Army culminating his career as an Army Scientist. He has a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Texas at El Paso, as well as M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the Naval Postgraduate School. His research and teaching interests are in Cyber Security, Digital Forensics and applications of Software Engineering.

Ph.D. Naval Postgraduate School, 1994

MS. Naval Postgraduate School, 1990

B.S. University of Texas at El Paso, 1984

Approximately $50 million External Funding includes Department of Defense ($6,553,332), Department of Justice ($18,140,855), National Science Foundation ($10,601,278), Department of Energy ($15,434,571), and Others ($139,963).

Sukhija, N., Sevin, S., Bautista, E., and D. Dampier, “Prescriptive and Predictive Analytics Techniques for Enabling Cybersecurity,” SmartData: State of the Art Perspectives in Computing and Applications, 2019.

Glendowne, D., C. Miller, R. McGrew, and D. Dampier, “Towards a Feature Set for Classifying Malicious DLLs in Windows Memory,” Advances in Digital Forensics XI, 2015.

Dampier, D. and K. Blaylock, “Cyber Security Education and Training through the Distributed Analytics and Security Institute,” ECE Source, ECEDHA, November 2015.

Dampier, D., “Building a Successful Cyber-Security Program,” Proceedings of the 7th Annual Southeastern Cyber Security Summit, Huntsville, AL, June 3-4, 2015.

Glendowne, D., C. Miller, R. McGrew, and D. Dampier, “Towards a Feature Set for Classifying Malicious DLLs in Windows Memory,” Proceedings of the IFIP Working Group 11.9 Conference on Digital Forensics, Orlando, FL, January 2015.

Miller, C., D. Glendowne, D. Dampier, and K. Blaylock, “Forensicloud: An Architecture for Digital Forensics Analysis in the Cloud,” Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility, Vol. 3, Num. 3, July 2014, pp. 231-262.

Kelly, K., D. Dampier, and K. Carr, “Willing, Able, and Unwanted: High School Girls’ Potential Selves in Computing,” Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, Vol. 19, Num. 1, 2013, pp. 67-85.

Cantrell, G. and D. Dampier, “Implementing the Automated Phases of the Partially-Automated Digital Triage Process Model,” Journal of Digital Forensics, Security, and the Law, Vol. 7, Num. 4, 2013.

Cantrell, G. and D. Dampier, “Evaluation of the Semi-Automated Crime-Specific Digital Triage Process Model,” Proceedings of the 9th IFIP International Conference on Digital Forensics, Orlando, FL, January 28-30, 2013.

Cantrell, G., D. Dampier, Y. Dandass, N. Niu, and C. Bogen, “Research Toward a Partially- automated, and Crime Specific Digital Triage Process Model,” Computer and Information Science, Volume 5, 2012, pp. 29-38.