MSC INFORMATION SYSTEM SECURITY (ISS) LECTURERS

Prof. Ismail Ateya

Associate Professor Ismail Ateya earned his Doctor of

Science degree in Applied Geophysics from Kyoto

University, Japan in 2003 and Graduate Diploma in

Computer Science from University of Auckland, New

Zealand in 2006. He holds a Bachelor of Science Honors

degree in Surveying and Photogrammetry rom University

of Nairobi (1993) and Master of Science in Applied

Geophysics from Kyoto University, Japan (2000).

His research interests are on Software and Database Modelling of large Information Systems –

and he has been an active member of the Database Research Group. Over the years, he has

taught courses such Software Modelling, Software Design and Construction, Database and

Advanced Database Systems among other courses at both Undergraduate and Graduate levels

over the years. Prof. Ateya has consulted and worked on IT Industry Projects on various

occasions.

Prof. Ateya has so far supervised three Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Theses – two from

Strathmore University: PhD in Information Technology (2014) and PhD in Computer Science

(2015) plus a thesis from Kabarak University - a PhD in Information Systems (2014). At Masters

Level, Prof. Ateya has supervised over hundred (100+) Theses and Dissertations - from three

programs: Master of Science in Information Technology, Master of Science in Computer Based

Information Systems and Master of Science in Mobile Telecommunication and Innovation of

Strathmore University. He has also supervised a few dissertations that majored in Information

Systems from Master of Business Administration (MBA) program from the Strathmore Business

School. Prof. Ateya has been the Academic and Research Director in Faculty of Information

Technology from February 2009 to March 2015. During this time, he successfully designed with

his team as Chairman the Bachelor of Science in Informatics and Bachelor Science in

Telecommunications that were launched in 2010 and the Chair of Workshop on Master

of Science of Mobile Telecommunications and Innovation launched in 2010 too.

Prof. Da Silva

Prof. Izael Pereira Da Silva has a PhD in Power Systems

Engineering from the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil). He is

also a Certified Energy Manager (CEM). At present he is an

Assoc. Professor at Strathmore University and the Deputy

Vice Chancellor - Academic affairs. He is the Director of the

Strathmore Energy Research Centre, SERC. The centre does

training, research, testing and consultancy in energy related

topics. His topics of interest are: Rural Electrification,

Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Policy,

Sustainable Environment and Demand Side Management.

In March 2012 Prof Da Silva together with other partners won a project sponsored by DFID and

DANIDA and managed by the World Bank to set up the first Climate Innovation Centre (CIC) in

the world. It is housed in Strathmore and serves SMEs financially and technically to solve

challenges posed by the adverse impact of climate change either by mitigation or adaptation.

Prof Da Silva has written quite extensively in the field of energy.

In 2013, he was honored by the Brazilian Government with the title of “Comendador da Ordem

do Rio Branco” for his services towards education and poverty alleviation in Africa. In October

2014, after more than one year of efforts together with seven other colleagues he managed to get

the Association of Energy Engineers – AEE to approve the Association of Energy Professionals

(Eastern Africa) as a chapter of AEE for the five countries of East Africa plus Ethiopia and

South-Sudan. Prof Da Silva is the first elected President and founding member of the AEP (EA).

Dr. Luis Franceschi

Dr Luis G Franceschi holds an LLB (UCAB), LLM (Nairobi)

and LLD (Navarre) with a Cum Laude thesis on The African

Human Rights Judicial System: A Proposal for Streamlining

Structures and Domestication Mechanisms Viewed from the

Foreign Affairs Power Perspective. He has been a

Constitutional, International and Civil Law lecturer. He is

chairman of the Board of the Ethics Institute of East Africa

and chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Annual

Ethics Conferences since 2004.

He is also chairman of A.L.L. Foundation and an adjunct faculty member at Strathmore Business

School. He has published more than a dozen peer reviewed articles and books on topics relating

to law and ethics.

He has been a Governing Council Delegate (Governing Council – UNEP and UNCHS) and the

Legal Advisor to the President of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment

Programme, where he co-drafted the UN Nairobi Declaration. He was also a Country

Representative at the 7th and the 4th Global Training Program on Environmental Law & Policy

(United Nations Environment Program – 2005 and 1999 respectively). He is a certified ISO

auditor.

Dr Franceschi is also a Member of the team of experts Peer Reviewers of the Council of Legal

Education (Kenya) and a Consultant for the Ministry of Justice, National Cohesion and

Constitutional Affairs, the Constitution Implementation Commission, the National Cohesion

Commission and the National Economic and Social Council (Office of the President), where he

was a founding member of the National Values Committee.

Dr. Stephen K. Ichatha

Dr. Stephen is an experienced technology leader with over 20

years work experience in IT, Network Operations, Program

Management, Strategic Planning, and Leadership and

Development. He has been responsible for identifying process and

system based opportunities that streamline Operations through

Process Improvement, Standard Operating Environment, and

Automation.

He is academically trained in Telecommunications Management, Internet Technology, and

Business. He has engaged in scholarship research experience in the domains of employee

empowerment, psychological contracts and crowd sourcing and has studied their relationship to

work related outcomes such as job satisfaction, job attractiveness, employee commitment and job

stress. He is currently working at Verizon (Atlanta, USA based) as an IT Operations manager

and holds a Doctorate in Business from Georgia State University and a MSc. Internet

Technology with 8 years teaching experience.

Dr. Jing Liu

Dr. Liu is a computer scientist at Cipher Cloud Inc. where his

core task is to design and develop crypto and tokenization APIs

for various cloud servers. He has over 6 years research and

hands-on experience in network security and privacy, over 2

years research and hands-on experience in cryptography, over 2

years hands-on experience in cloud computing and distributed

search, is proficient with Java, C/C++, and Crypto analysis and

possess superior network system analysing and trouble shooting

skills. He holds an MSc in Computer Software & Theory and a PhD in Computer Science both

from Hunan University – Changsha, China and has been teaching 2012.

Dr. Xiehua Li

Dr. Xiehua Li has been a lecturer since 2007 and is currently an

assistant professor at Hunan University (Hunan, China) in the

College of Information Science and Engineering. She has a

PhD in Communication and Information System Department of

Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University and holds

an MSc in Computer Application Technology from the School

of Information Science and Engineering, Central South

University.

She is a reviewer for International Journal of Advancement Computing Technology and

International Conference of Asiaccs-scc13. The following are academic activities that Dr. Li

participates in: Program Committee Member of Asiaccs-scc13, member of the Institute of

Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, senior member of China Computer and

editor of International Journal of Advancement Computing Technology.

Dr. Matunda Nyanchama

Dr. Nyanchama is a qualified and experienced ICT strategist, risk manager and market

researcher in consulting and corporate affairs, corporate training in ICT financing and

governance and well conversant in academia having studied and Masters and a PhD in Computer

Science – Information Security specialization both at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.

In addition to this, he has done various courses in IBM, including people, contract and delivery

management, leadership and management courses in IBM, Bank of Montreal and Ernst & Young

Project Management Training, attended courses in ITIL, ISO17799 (BS7799‐2) Information

Security Management System Implementation, BSI and is a Certified Information Systems

Security Professional (CISSP).

His portfolio also includes various university and college courses designed and taught such as

Certificate in Information Security Management for Department of Continuing Education,

University of Toronto, Canada, 2012‐2013, attack & Defense for the Masters of Information

Technology Security (MITS) program at the University of Ontario Institute of

Technology ‐ 2006 ‐ 2007, Incident Handling, Policies and Risk Management for the Masters of

Information Technology Security (MITS) at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology.

2006‐2008, Operating System Security for the Masters of Information Technology Security

(MITS) program at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology – 2007 and Ethical

Hacking – a 4th year course designed for Bachelor of Information Security Program @ Sheridan

Institute 2008.

Dr. Humphrey Njogu

Humphrey Njogu received his PhD and MSc in Computer

Science from Hunan University, China. He received his BSc

degree in IT from Moi University, Kenya. He holds several IT

professional certifications in Cisco, Oracle, Comptia, Linux,

Microsoft, CISSP among other IT certification vendors. His

research interests include most aspects of IT security, with an

emphasis on network security; intrusion detection and prevention;

vulnerability management; cloud computing security; social media security. Other areas include

green computing and data mining. He has a vast experience in implementing several IT security

projects.

He has authored many IT security research articles in the leading ISI/SCI indexed international

journals and conferences. Some of the top journals include: Future Generation Computer

Systems - Journal – Elsevier; Security and Communication Networks – Wiley; International

Journal of Network Management - Wiley; International Journal of Security and Its Applications

(IJSIA). He authored several conference papers in the world premier conferences. He is currently

writing a book on IT Security.

Dr. Vitalis Gavole Ozianyi

Dr. Gavole received his Bachelor of Technology degree in

Electrical and Communications Engineering from Moi

University, Kenya in 2002. He received MSc and PhD degrees

from the University of Cape Town, South Africa in 2006 and

2010 respectively. Dr. Ozianyi has been a Telecommunications

Lecturer at Strathmore University from July 2012 – Present. He

lectures in the field of Advanced Network Technologies and

Telecommunication Systems to Master's students in the Faculty

of Information Technology. He also teaches Computer

Networks and Telecommunication Systems to Bachelor degree

students.

Dr. Petr Matoušek

Dr. Matoušek is currently an assistant professor, Brno University

of Technology, Czech Republic with his main contact in Cisco

Network Academy. He has been teaching since 2003 and holds a

PhD in Information Technology with a specialization in Symbolic

Data Structures. He has carried out a number of research projects

that include Security-Oriented Research in Information

Technology (2007-2013), Dependable Systems International

Research and Educational Experience, EC EU (2008-2013),

Modern Tools for Detection and Mitigation of Cyber Criminality on the New Generation Internet

(2010-2015) and Research and application of advanced methods in ICT (2014-2016).

Dr. Ondřej Ryšavý

Dr. Ryšavý is an assistant professor at Brno University of

Technology (Czech Republic) with 10 years teaching experience.

He has a PhD in Information Technology. His research projects

include Programmability in Rina for European Supremacy of

virtualized Networks, Modern Tools for Detection and Mitigation

of Cyber Criminality on the New Generation Internet, SCADA

system for control and monitoring RT processes and Dependable

Systems International Research and Educational Experience.

Dr. Marek Rychlý

Dr. Rychlý holds a Rerum Naturalium Doctor in Software

Systems from Charles University, Czech Republic, a Ph.D. in

Computer Science and Engineering from Brno University of

Technology, Czech Republic and an MSc in Informatics Masaryk

University, Czech Republic. He has been teaching since 2005 at

University level in Czech Republic and is currently working as

an Assistant Professor in Brno University of Technology, Czech

Republic.

From the year 2013 to 2015, Dr. Rychlý has been working on a major project that runs on the

Java Platform for High-performance and Real-time Large Scale Data Management (JUNIPER),

an international research project (9 academia & industrial partners from 5 EU countries).

He is a researcher for software design and modelling, participating in the BUT team in Task 3.5

"Real-time scheduling advisor" (the advisor based on statistical analysis of worst case execution

time on the project's MPI/Hadoop platform). He is also a team member of several international

teams participating mainly in tasks related to modelling and development of a tool for model-

driven engineering of real-time Big Data systems, Eclipse EMF, and validation of time

constraints for the processing of Big Data streams.

Dr. Isaac M. Rutenberg

Dr. Rutenberg received a dual BSc degree in Chemistry and

Mathematics/Computer Science from the Colorado School of

Mines, as well as a PhD in Chemistry from the California

Institute of Technology. His graduate research advisor was

Robert H. Grubbs, and his graduate research focused on new

methods for producing high-performance polymer materials.

Dr. Rutenberg finished the degree in 2004, and in 2005 Prof.

Grubbs was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Dr.

Rutenberg also obtained a JD from Santa Clara University

School of Law in May 2011. He is registered to practice law in California, and is also registered

to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Dr. Rutenberg has authored articles for a variety of publications and spoken at numerous

conferences in Kenya, primarily focusing on practical aspects of intellectual property (IP). He

continuously advocates for Kenyan organizations and individuals to expand their use of

worldwide IP systems.

In addition to his affiliation with Strathmore Law School, Dr. Rutenberg is currently a practicing

patent attorney with Science & Technology Law. His practice includes patent prosecution, due

diligence, and preparation of legal opinions (patentability, validity, and freedom to operate) for

subject matter that included chemistry, materials science, polymers, pharmaceuticals,

biotechnology, drug delivery, medical devices, and electronic devices. His practice includes all

aspects of patent prosecution, including US and foreign prosecution.

Dr. Joseph Sevilla

Dr. Sevilla is currently Director of @iLabAfrica, a Research

and Innovation Centre at Strathmore University (Nairobi,

Kenya). He is also the Director of @iBizAfrica, a business

incubator at Strathmore. He graduated as an Industrial

Engineer (Universidad del País Vasco, Spain, 1980) and holds

an MSc in Computer Science (University College London,

UK, 1995) and a PhD in BioInformatics (Tecnun, Universidad

de Navarra, Spain, 2005). Dr. Sevilla is a Member of the

British Computer Society and has actively participated in the

“East African Internet Association” (EAIA) and the

“Computer Society of Kenya” (CSK).

He has participated as a member in a number of committees established by the Ministry of

Education, the Ministry of Research, Technical Training and Technology, and the Ministry of

Information and Communications; he has advised the Kenyan Government and the ICT Board on

the drafting of national policies in ICT education, the national syllabus for Computer Studies in

schools and the adoption of a national ICT strategy.

He has acted as Chairman of the Document Description and Processing Languages Technical

committee of the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KBS). He has been advisor to the Kenyan

Directorate of Industrial Training in issues related to computer training. Together with

representatives from other local universities, he participated in the creation of the Kenya

National Educational Network (KENET). He is active in a wide variety of fields such as

Distance Learning, eLearning, /mLearning Mobile Computing, FOSS, ICT4D, Managerial

Decision Modelling, Cybersecurity, ICT in Education, Bioinformatics and eHealth.

Dr. Rasit O. Topaloglu

Dr. Rasit O. Topaloglu received his Ph.D. in Computer

Engineering from the University of California, San Diego. His

dissertation was "Characterization, Modeling and Optimization

of Fills and Stress in Semiconductor Integrated Circuits”. He

also received both a C.Phil. in Computer Engineering and a

MSc in Computer Science from the University of California,

San Diego. He received his BSc with High Honors in

Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bogazici

University in Turkey. He currently works at IBM as an Advisory Research and Development

Engineer/Technical Lead.

Dr. Komminist Weldemariam

Dr. Komminist Weldemariam is a Research Scientist and

Manager at IBM Research - Africa. Prior to IBM, he was an

Adjunct Assistant Professor at School of Computing, Queen's

University (Canada) where he has focused on designing tools

and techniques for automated analysis, characterization, and

detection of malicious activities on the Web. He was a

Research Scientist at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), in

Trento - Italy.

He was a contractual Professor at the University of Trento (Italy) and a visiting researcher in

the Security Lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara CA (USA). Kommy has co-

authored more than 55 scientific articles. He received a BSc from Addis Ababa University

(Ethiopia), an MSc from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (India) and a PhD from the

University of Trento (Italy), all in Computer Science.

Recently, Kommy was named one of Africa's Most Influential Young Scientist, fellow of

the Next Einstein Forum and also honored as an Emerging Young Scientist at the World

Economic Forum, 2015/2016.