I am curious about a rather large number of fields within the domain of computer science; however, I am currently most interested in the following broad areas:
I currently focus my research on the following areas:
- Computer science education
- Cyber security education
- Threat avoidance (looking at inward strategies to make certain types of attacks irrelevant)
- Cyber security-related issues and strategies that are interesting to me (which usually means that they are cunning, interesting, and even sometimes aggravating!)
I am currently very interested in the following topics:
- Computer science curriculum development in higher education, both pedagogical and technical, with a hands-on, project-based focus
- Computer science curriculum development at the primary and secondary levels, mainly for the purpose of increasing computational thinking experiences to cultivate thinkers and interest in the pursuit of STEM disciplines in higher education and industry
- Challenge-based cyber security competitions, including design and implementation of network and computing infrastructure, cyber security challenges, live scoring, and real-time situational awareness
- Unobtrusive, zero-interaction location-based access control mechanisms
- Unobtrusive, zero-interaction multi-factor authentication mechanisms
Jean Gourd 