Department: School of Technology and Innovation

Academic Credentials

PhD. in information Technology

George Mason University — Fairfax, VA 2006 to 2012

PhD in Information Technology
Thesis Title: Trust Management in Smart Spaces (see publications)
• Research focused on formulating a trust model that satisfies the needs of smart spaces including the ability to deal with diverse decision makers, multilink trust decisions and multilateral decision making. For proof of concept an android based location disclosure application was built and used to test that end users can understand and use the trust model. The trust model allows user personalization through privacy policies and multiple levels of access.
GPA: 3.88

University of North Carolina at Charlotte — Charlotte, NC 2004 to 2006
MS in Information Technology
GPA: 4.0

Coastal Carolina University— Conway, SC 1999 to 2002
BS in Computer Science
Minor: Business Administration
GPA: 3.565

Bio

Dalal Alarayed, PhD
dalal.alarayed@gmail.com; dalaraye@marymount.edu
Cell: (571) 598-9207
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dalal-alarayed-618401129/

Professional Experience

Marymount University — Arlington, VA
08/21 to Present
School of Technology and Innovation, College of Business, Innovation, Leadership, and Technology
Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity

University of Bahrain — Skheer, Kingdom of Bahrain 06/15 to 09/19
Department of Information Systems, College of Information Technology
Assistant Professor
• Taught a variety of IT courses including Operating Systems, Computer Architecture, Security, Databases, etc.

Marymount University — Arlington, VA 08/13 to 07/15
Department of Information Technology, School of Business Administration
Assistant Professor
• Taught Security, Software Engineering and other IT courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels

Marymount University — Arlington, VA 02/12 to 07/13
Department of Information Technology, School of Business Administration
Adjunct Faculty
• Taught a Capsim Capstone Business simulation course(Spring 2012)
• Co-taught a graduate course on Electronic Records and Documents Security (Summer 2012)
• Taught a Networking course (Fall 2012)
• Taught an introduction to IT course (Spring 2013)
• Taught an introduction to Security course (Spring and Summer I 2013)

Virginia International University — Fairfax, VA 04/12 to 12/12
School of Computer Information Systems
Adjunct Faculty
• Teaching a course in Mobile Device Programming- Android (Summer I 2012, Fall 2012)
• Teaching an introduction to IT course (Fall 2012)
• Taught a course in Security Principles (Summer I 2012)

Northern Virginia University — Annandale, VA 04/12 to 12/12
School of Technology
Adjunct Faculty
• Teaching online course in Security Principles (Spring 2012, Summer 2012)

George Mason University — Fairfax, VA 01/08 to 01/12
Department of Computer Science, Volgenau School of Engineering
PhD Dissertation Research Project- “Trust Management in Smart Spaces”
• Devised a trust model for smart spaces that can handle diverse participants, multilink and multilateral decision making. Individual users can personalize the trust model by creating and maintaining privacy policies that assign access level based on the trustee’s category membership or other conditions.
• Devised a general trust model that is applicable in diverse problem scenarios including location disclosure, filtering of content, service provider selection and granting access to resources and services.
• Developed an android based location disclosure application that employs the android location package and the ‘point in polygon algorithm’ to return the ‘building’ the user is located. (see publications)

George Mason University — Fairfax, VA
09/08 to 01/11
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Department of Computer Science, Volgenau School of Engineering

University of North Carolina Charlotte — Charlotte, NC 09/04 to 05/06
Graduate Assistant
Department of Management, Belk College of Business

University of Bahrain — Skheer, Bahrain
02/03 to 07/04
Research and Teaching Assistant
Department of Information Systems, College of Information Technology
• Taught undergraduate IT Courses

Baker Atlas GeoScience — Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain 11/02 to 02/03
Cartographer
• Member of the drafts team in an all petroleum services consultants firm, middle-east branch of Baker Hughes.
• Created and modified maps, graphs and diagrams related to scientific data.
• Helped in the preparation of reports that were submitted to clients.

Coastal Carolina University — Conway, SC 01/01 to 06/02
Web Developer
A member of the Information Technology Services team at Coastal Carolina University responsible for:
• the design, content and programming of the University web site including the creation and redesign of key elements in the College of Humanities and Fine Arts website and faculty webpages
• managing various elements of student IT services including students accounts, network and Internet setup
• supporting and troubleshooting problems with network connections and accounts

Coastal Carolina University — Conway, SC 01/00 to 12/00
Computer Lab and Lecture Assistant
• Assisted the professor in conducting “”Introduction to Computers”” classes
• Helped students complete their assignments
• Graded tests, assignments, and projects

Teaching Areas

• Cybersecurity
• Networking and Software Engineering

Research Interests

• Security, Privacy
• Authentication Access Control

Publications

• Dalal Al-Arayed and João Pedro Sousa. “Towards Generalized Trust in Smart Spaces.” Technical report, GMU-CS-TR-2009-8, George Mason University, 2009.
• Dalal Al-Arayed and João Pedro Sousa. “General Trust Management -GTM.” In IEEE Intl Conf Information Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust, IEEE Computer Society, 2010.
• Dalal Al-Arayed and João Pedro Sousa. “A General Model for Trust Management.” In Intl Journal of Information Privacy, Security and Integrity, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2011.
• Dalal Al-Arayed and João Pedro Sousa. “TISS-loc: Towards User Control of Privacy in Location Disclosure.” In IEEE Intl Conf Information Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust, IEEE Computer Society, 2011. Dalal Al-Arayed and Donna Schaeffer. “”Bring Your Own Device: Considerations for Small and Medium Enterprises.”” In The Northeast Decision Sciences Institute Conference (NEDSI), Philadelphia, PA, 2014.
• Dalal Al-Arayed and Donna Schaeffer. “”Bring Your Own Device in a Small or Medium Enterprise in the Health Care Industry.”” The Clute Institute, San Fancisco, California, 2014.
• Alaa Elmasri, Harry Weschler, Peter Likarish, Christopher Grayson, Calton Pu, Dalal Alarayed and Brent Kang. “”Active Authentication using Scrolling Behaviors.”” In IEEE 6th Intl Conf Information and Communication Systems (ICICS), April 2015.

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Academic Credentials

B.A., University of Wisconsin – Madison
M.B.A., Kansas State University
M.Ed., George Mason University
Ph.D., George Mason University

Bio

Dr. Conrad began her career working for NBC as a reporter. She later became a lead staffer for the Wisconsin State Energy Committee. She later transitioned to Accenture Consulting as a technology consultant before joining a start-up company in San Francisco Bay as the chief architect for development of a Medicare review system. The system was used to review Medicare and Medicaid claims to find fraud in California. The system was later purchased by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and has been used nationwide.

Afterwards, she became the Director of Information Services for Lexington Medical Health Systems in South Carolina where she implemented a new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) in a record 12 months. During her tenure at the health system, she implemented more than 25 hospital IT systems and was instrumental in transforming the workflow within the system and affiliated medical clinics. She managed a team of 40 people who were responsible for maintaining medical system. Dr. Conrad left the hospital after several years to accept a position to with Siemens Medical Solutions as a solutions manager implementing ERP systems. She worked for Siemens more than twelve years where she held a variety of positions to include Director of ERP and custom code (a 200+ person implementation team); sales executive for the Mid-Atlantic region and regional executive professional services manager. Dr. Conrad joined Marymount in 2011 as the Director of Instructional Design and Online Learning. She left that position and joined the faculty in 2016 as a full-time professor in the School of Business, Innovation, Leadership and Technology. Dr. Conrad is very interested in the topics of digital privacy and workforce readiness.

Teaching Areas

• Information Technology
• Web Design
• HTML and CSS
• Python Programming
• Privacy

Research Interests

• Privacy
• Workforce Readiness

Publications

• Conrad, S. S. (2020). Experiential learning: Preparing students for the workforce through faculty mentorship and feedback in campus-based IT projects. Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, 36(3), 142–150. https://doi.org/10.5555/3447080.3447096 Conrad, S. S. (2019).
• Protecting personal information and data privacy: what students need to know. J. Comput. Sci. Coll. 35, 3 (October 2019), 77–86. DOI:https://doi.org/10.5555/3381569.3381580
• Conrad, S.S. (2019) Biometrics– Safeguarding or Compromising Individual Privacy. SEINSFORMS Proceedings 2019. http://www.conferencemgt.com/presseinforms/SEINFORMS2019-Proceedings.pdf
• Conrad, S. S., & Cashin, S., Cyber Behaviors: How Concerned are People When it Comes to Cyber Protection. http://www.conferencemgt.com/presseinforms/SEINFORMS%202018%20-%20Proceedings.pdf (pp 133-142) 2018.
• Conrad, S. S., & Dabbagh, N. What Types of Feedback Students Want from Instructors in Online Classes and What Instructors Actually Provide? In Innovative Applications of Online Pedagogy and Course Design (pp. 177–201). Hershey, PA: IGI-Global. 2018.
• Dr. Susan Conrad, Dr. Donna Schaeffer, Rita Thomas, and Dr. Patrick Olson. 2017. Strategies to provide helpful feedback to your students: panel discussion. J. Comput. Sci. Coll. 32, 3 (January 2017), 157.
• “Examining the Factors that Influence how an Instructor Provides Feedback in Online Learning Environments, International Journal of Online Pedagogy and Course Design, 5(4), (pp. 47-66) 2015.
• “Latist: A Performance Support Tool for Integrating Technologies into DAU Learning Assets”, Defense Acquisition Research Journal, 18(3) (pp. 313-334), 2011.”

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Academic Credentials

• PhD, Information Science, University Of Sheffield, UK, 1977
• MSc, Library and Information Studies, 1970
• BSc, Chemistry, University of Wales, 1969

Bio

Dr. Diane Murphy is the Director of Technology and Innovation at Marymount University and is an accomplished educator in the technology field. She was one of the 12 state-wide recipients of the 2020 Commonwealth of Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award and was awarded the inaugural Distinguished Faculty award by Marymount University’s Halo Committee in 2021.

She began her career in the European pharmaceutical industry and was an early leader in chemical informatics, using technology to predict the biological effects of chemicals. She holds a BSc degree in Chemistry an MSc in Library Science, and a PhD in Information Science.

Dr. Murphy came to the U.S. in 1980 and worked on advanced projects, including early artificial intelligence systems, for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Later in the 1980s and 1990s, Dr. Murphy was a serial entrepreneur founding two technology companies, as well as a not-for-profit to help young entrepreneurs succeed in their initial business ventures.

In 2002, Dr. Murphy joined Marymount University as a full-time professor. She has been instrumental in developing new technology programs at the university including undergraduate and graduate programs. She is known for her innovation in the education field, pioneering the university’s DSc in Cybersecurity and the new DBA in Business Intelligence. She continues to teach in the classroom and conduct contemporary research. She has received a number of grants from the National Science Foundation, National Security Agency, and the Commonwealth Cyber Institute (CCI). She has recently been appointed by the Provost as the Champion for the university’s new Center for the Innovative Workforce.

Teaching Areas

• Cybersecurity, Software Engineering
• Digital Transformation
• Technology Management
• Business Analytics
• Workforce Readiness

Research Interests

Her current research interests include the technology workforce, detecting and preventing disinformation, trustworthy artificial intelligence, and using technology to age in place.

Publications

• Hall, A., Liu, X., & Murphy, D. (2021, October 13-16). Integrating Andragogy Theory into a Multidisciplinary Curriculum to Achieve a Connected Program for a Doctorate in Cybersecurity. Paper Presented and published in the Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska
• Liu, X. & Murphy, D. (2021, Sep.30-Oct.1). Building a Skills-focused Educational Pathway in IT/IS Programs to Skill-based Hiring. Paper presented and published in the Proceedings of 2021 SEINFORMS (Southeast INFORMS Conference), Myrtle Beach, SC.
• Green, N., Larasati, S.D., Duro, D., Laskey, K., and Murphy, D.(2021). Fact Repo: A Machine Learning Resource for Identifying and Analyzing Misinformation. Submitted to HT’21 (ACM Hypertext and Social Media 2021)
• Liu, X. & Murphy, D. (2021). “BILT for Success”: An Alternative Education Strategy to Reskill the Business and Technology Professional for a Sustainable Future, Information Systems Education Journal, Vol 19 (7) p4-14. http://isedj.org/2021-19/n2/ISEDJv19n2p4.pdf
• Liu, X. & Murphy, D. (2020). A Multi-Faceted Approach for Trustworthy AI in Cybersecurity, Journal of Strategic Innovation and Sustainability Vol 15(6)
• Green, N., Liu, X. & Murphy, D (2020). Using an Electronic Resume Analyzer Portal (e-RAP) to Improve College Graduates Employability, Information Systems Education Journal Vol 18, pp28-37, 2020
• Green, N., Liu, X. & Murphy, D (2019). Developing an Electronic Resume Analyzer Portal (e-RAP): A Natural Language Processing Approach to Enhance College Graduates Job Readiness, 2019 Proceedings of the EDSIG Conference, Cleveland Ohio November 2019
• Green, N., Liu, X. & Murphy, D (2018). Revisiting an Educator’s Dilemma: Using Natural Language Processing to Analyze the Needs of Employers and Inform Curriculum Development, Proceedings CCSC Eastern Conference, Marymount University, October 2018
• Liu, X. & Murphy, D. (2018, March 23-24), Constructing A Connected Program In IT/IS: A Non-R1 University Case, the Proceedings of 21st Annual Conference of the SAIS (Southern Association for Information Systems), Atlanta, GA.
• Liu, X. & Murphy, D. (2017): Are They Ready? Integrating Workforce Readiness into a Four-Year College IT/IS Curriculum. Paper presented and published in the Proceedings of the 20th SAIS (Southern Association for Information Systems Conference, St. Simons, GA

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Academic Credentials

B.E., Nankai University
M.S., Tianjin Polytechnic University
Ph.D., Boston University

Bio

Dr. Michelle Liu is currently a full professor of Information Technology and Cybersecurity. She joined Marymount University in 2008. Previously she was a research assistant in the Boston University Institute for Leading in a Dynamic Economy (BUILDE) in Boston, MA. She received her doctoral degree in Information Systems from Boston University where her thesis topic was “Design Architecture, Developer Networks and Performance of Open Source Software Projects.” She also holds a master’s of Management degree in MIS from Tianjin Polytechnic University in China and a Bachelor of Engineering degree in International Trade of Textiles from Nankai University, China.

Her scholarly work appears in Journal of Strategic Innovation and Sustainability, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, The Coastal Business Journal, American Journal of Management, Information Systems Education Journal, The Learning Organization, among others. Co-authoring with her colleagues, she has won two Best Paper Awards, one Distinguished Paper Award, and one Best Paper Finalist Award at international and national conferences including 2021 EDSIG Conference, 2019 SEINFORMS, 2017 Eastern Academy of Management International Conference, and the 2013 ISECON.

Dr. Liu has been both PI and Co-PI for several NSF and NSA grants during her tenure at Marymount. She is a Certified Electronic Records Management Practitioner (ERMp) and a Certified Cyber Intelligence Investigator (CCII).

Teaching Areas

• Information Technology applications
• Database technology
• Software engineering
• Security and privacy of records management
• Cybersecurity principles
• Risk Management

Research Interests

Dr. Liu’s inquiries of scholarship are to explore and provide better understanding as of how to design and deploy different cybersecurity tools, technologies, frameworks and policies to secure the cyberspace. Her scholarly work mainly focuses on three areas: (1) renovate or innovate STEM education (focusing on IT/ IS and cybersecurity programs and curricular) to increase workforce diversity and readiness; (2) explore how emerging technologies would impact, interact with, or co-evolve with users, existing organization structure and culture; and (3) investigate various phenomena, trends, incidents, and human behaviors in cybersecurity and provide better understanding as of how to design and deploy different cybersecurity tools, technologies, frameworks and policies to secure the cyberspace.

Publications

Selected publications:

• Liu, X. (2021). A Risk-based Approach to Cybersecurity: A Case Study of Financial Messaging Networks Data Breaches. The Coastal Business Journal, 18(1), pp1-18.
• Ermicioi, N. & Liu, X. (2021). An Interdisciplinary Study of Cybersecurity Investment in the Nonprofit Sector. American Journal of Management, 21(5), pp 44-55.
• Hall, A., Liu, X., & Murphy, D. (2021, October 13-16). Integrating Andragogy Theory into a Multidisciplinary Curriculum to Achieve a Connected Program for a Doctorate in Cybersecurity. Paper Presented and Published in the Proceedings of Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska.
• Liu, X. & Murphy, D. (2021). “BILT for Success”: An Alternative Education Strategy to Reskill the Business and Technology Professionals for a Sustainable Future. Information Systems Education Journal 19(2), 4-14. http://isedj.org/2021-19/n2/ISEDJv19n2p4.pdf
• Liu, X. & Murphy, D. (2020). A Multi-Faceted Approach for Trustworthy AI in Cybersecurity. Journal of Strategic Innovation and Sustainability, 15(6), pp 68-78.
• Mbaziira, A., Diaz-Gonzales, J., & Liu, X. (2020). Deep Learning in Detection of Mobile Malware, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, 36(3), pp 80-88.
• Green, N., Liu, X., Murphy, D. (2020). Using an Electronic Resume Analyzer Portal (e-RAP) to Improve College Graduates Employability. Information Systems Education Journal. 18(3) pp 28-37. http://isedj.org/2020-18/n3/ISEDJv18n3p28.pdf. ISSN: 1545-679X. A preliminary version appears in The Proceedings of EDSIGCON 2019
• Diaz-Gonzalez, J., Mbaziira, A. & Liu, M. (2019). An Exploratory Deep Learning Approach to Mobile Malware Detection. Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, 35(3), pp219.
• Marchetto, V. & Liu, X. (2019). An Investigation of Cryptojacking: Malware Analysis and Defense Strategies, Journal of Strategic Innovation and Sustainability, 14(1), pp 66-80.
• Green, N., Liu, X., & Murphy, D. (2019). Revisiting an Educator’s Dilemma: Using Natural Language Processing to Analyze the Needs of Employers and Inform Curriculum Development, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, 34(3), pp 97-107.
• Green, N., Liu, X., & Murphy, D. (2019, November 6-9). Developing an Electronic Resume Analyzer Portal (e-RAP): A Natural Language Processing Approach to Enhance College Graduates Job Readiness. Paper published at the Proceedings of EDSIG (Education Special Interest Group) Conference on Information Systems & Computing Education, Cleveland, OH. Retrieved from http://proc.iscap.info/2019/pdf/4925.pdf
• Liu, X. M. (2019). The Cyber Acumen: An Integrative Framework to Understand Average Users’ Decision-Making Processes in Cybersecurity. In Z. Yan (Ed.), Analyzing Human Behavior in Cyberspace (pp. 192-208). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-7128-5.ch011
• Liu, X. & Murphy, D. (2018, March 23-24), Constructing A Connected Program In IT/IS: A Non-R1 University Case, the Proceedings of 21st Annual Conference of the SAIS (Southern Association for Information Systems), Atlanta, GA.
• Erkan, G. & Liu, X. (2017, October 4-6). Investigating Vulnerabilities and Cybersecurity Issues in Connected Cars. Paper presented and published in the Proceedings of 2017 SEINFORMS (Southeast Informs Conference), Myrtle Beach, SC.
• Liu, X. & Murphy, D. (2017, March 23-24). Are They Ready? Integrating Workforce Readiness into a Four-Year College IT/IS Curriculum. Paper presented and published in the Proceedings of 20th SAIS (Southern Association for Information Systems Conference), St. Simons, GA.
• Liu, X. & Murphy, D. (2016, September 28-30). Engaging Females in Cybersecurity: K through Gray. Paper presented and published in the 2016 Proceedings of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) ISI (Intelligence and Security Informatics) Conference, p255-260, Tucson, AZ.
• Knott, C. Liu, X., & Murphy, D. (2016, February 17-19). Data without Borders: Privacy, Data Ownership, and Legal Concerns for Data in the Cloud. Paper published in the 2016 Proceedings of the Southeast Decision Sciences Institute Annual Meeting, Williamsburg, VA.
• Liu, X. & Murphy, D. (2015, March 20-21). They are not All Enemies: Detecting and Deterring Non-Malicious, Privileged IT User Threat Using an Interdepartmental Approach. Paper published in the 2015 Proceedings of the Southern Association for Information Systems Conference, Hilton Head Island, SC.
• Liu, X. & Rao, P. (2015). A comparative perspective of knowledge management via social media: India and China. The Learning Organization, 22 (2), pp.93-114. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/TLO-03-2014-0010
• Bicak, A., Liu, X., Murphy, D. (2015). Cybersecurity Curriculum Development: Introducing Specialties in a Graduate Program. Information Systems Education Journal, 13(3) pp 99-110. http://isedj.org/2015-13/ ISSN: 1545-679X. (A preliminary version appears in The Proceedings of ISECON 2014)
• Liu, X. & Murphy, D. (2014). Document Explosion in the World of Big Data – Curriculum Considerations. Information Systems Education Journal, 12(6) pp 83-91. http://isedj.org/2014-12/ ISSN: 1545-679X. (A preliminary version appears in The Proceedings of ISECON 2013)
• Liu, X., & Murphy, D. (2014, August 7-9). Inspiring and Cultivating Female Innovators through Mobile App Development. Paper published in the Proceedings of the Twentieth Americas Conference on Information Systems, Savannah, GA.
• Kelekar, U. & Liu X. (2013). Why should geography matter to public health managers?. International Journal of Business Performance Management, 14 (4), 418-434.
• Liu, X. & Murphy, D. (2013). Using Mobile Apps to Entice General Education Students into Technology Fields. Information Systems Education Journal, 11(1) 25-32. http://isedj.org/2013-11/ ISSN: 1545-679X. (A preliminary version appears in The Proceedings of ISECON 2012)”

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