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Dr. Keri C. Fogle, an Associate Professor in the School of Education, has a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis on Special Education.

Her research focuses on many aspects of Special Education 鈥� parent-educators of students with disabilities, parent-school relationships, students with high-incidence disabilities, pre-service teacher preparation using effective instructional practices, and school-university partnerships. She has made presentations on these and other topics at international and national gatherings held to discuss special education.

As a parent-educator who raised a child with a learning disability, Fogle is conducting research that examines the challenges faced by parent-educators while working inside school districts. She also analyzes teaching practices and researches ways to help teachers better understand students in Special Education classes.

Fogle was an Exceptional Student Education specialist and teacher before she obtained her Ph.D. at the University of South Florida in 2014 and joined the UWF faculty.

Degrees & Institutions:
Fogle received her bachelor's degree in Applied Sciences, Psychology from Nova Southeastern University. She went on to earn a master's degree in Special Education and a doctorate degree in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in Special Education from the University of South Florida.

Dr. Hakki Erhan Sevil received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), and his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Izmir Institute of Technology. He had over 4 years of research experience at Izmir Institute of Technology, and he was a Visiting Researcher in Service Automation and Systems Analysis (Service d'Automatique et d'Analyse des Systemes - SAAS) Laboratory at Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in 2009. Between 2009 and 2013, he was conducting research in Computer-Aided Control System Design Laboratory (CACSDL) and Autonomous Vehicles Laboratory (AVL) at UTA.

Before joining University of West Florida (UWF) in 2018, he has worked as a Research Scientist in the Automation & Intelligent Systems Division at the University of Texas at Arlington Research Institute (UTARI) between 2014 and 2018. His research interests include robotics, guidance and navigation, fault detection and isolation, bio-inspired and evolutionary computational methods, and distributed behavior models for multi-agent systems. Dr. Sevil has authored/co-authored more than 45 journal and conference papers, and book chapters, and he has been involved in 10 funded projects as a researcher. Besides working on the funded projects as key personnel, Dr. Sevil also has been the PI and Co-PI of various internal and external projects, sponsored by agencies, including NSF, NASA, ARL, and ONR. His recent work includes resilient and intelligent robotic systems, cooperative multiagent systems, computer vision applications for mobile robots, and advanced guidance and navigation techniques

Degrees & Institutions:
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Izmir Institute of Technology
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Izmir Institute of Technology

Dr. Wade Jeffrey is a Distinguished University Professor, Director of the Center for Environmental Diagnostics and Bioremediation and Director of the Reubin O'D. Askew Institute of Multidisciplinary Studies. Jeffrey is an oceanographer focusing on bacterial function and diversity in the ocean. He studies the effects of ultraviolet radiation on marine microbes and has worked around the globe. He has also been involved with projects examining the effects of oil on microbial communities in the Gulf of Mexico, spawned by the 2010 BP oil spill.

A UWF faculty member since 1991, he has taught many courses, including Biological Oceanography, Climate Change Biology and Professional Development in Biology. Jeffrey has raised more than $6.5 million in outside funding for research projects that involved him, other faculty members and students. Jeffrey earned a Ph.D. and an M.S. in Marine Science from the University of South Florida and a B.S. in Biology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He also was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the EPA Research Laboratory on Pensacola Beach.

Numerous publications have carried his findings in leading journals including Nature, Nature Microbiology, Limnology and Oceanography, and Biogeosciences. He has represented UWF on the Florida Institute of Oceanography鈥檚 advisory committee for over 15 years. In addition he has been Associate Editor since 2004 of Limnology and Oceanography, which publishes original research articles, reviews, and comments about all aspects of limnology (the study of inland waters) and oceanography.

Dr. Xuan V. Tran, a Professor, studies microeconomics and macroeconomics and consumer behavior psychology in hospitality and tourism.

Tran鈥檚 research has examined economic effects on demand for luxury hotel rooms, hotel brand personality and service quality, and customers鈥� price sensitivity in upscale lodging. In addition, he has examined aspects of crime and tourism, financial decision-making in the lodging industry, and numerous other issues involving tourism in Asia, Europe and the United States.

He has written two books: Effects of American Travelers Motivations on Their Travel Preferences for Tour Packages -- Basics, Concepts, Methods, Applications;and American Needs, Asian Policies, and European Societies in Tourism; andcustomized one textbook: Financial Decision-Making in the Lodging Industry."

Tran earned a Ph.D. in Hospitality, Recreation and Tourism at the University of Utah. Before joining the UWF faculty, he taught at the University of Utah and at colleges in Japan, China and Vietnam.

His interest covers a wide span, from 鈥淏ody Mass Index, Suicide and Homicide among The Caribbean islands鈥� to travel preferences of American and Chinese travelers.

His work has been published in Journal of Vacation Marketing, Tourism Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Journal, E-Review for Tourism Research, Annals of Tourism Research, and Advances in Culture, and Tourism and Hospitality Research, among others.

Tran, a former Fulbright Scholar, has been on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Sports, Medicine & Doping Studies since 2010. Tran鈥檚 community involvement includes helping to develop a marketing plan for Pensacola Historic Village, a UWF undertaking in downtown Pensacola.

Dr. Eman El-Sheikh is Associate Vice President at the University of West Florida. She leads the Center for Cybersecurity and is also a Professor of Computer Science at UWF. Eman has extensive expertise in cybersecurity education, research, and workforce development. She received several awards related to cybersecurity education and diversity and was recognized among the 2020 Women Leaders in Cybersecurity by Security Magazine. 

Dr. El-Sheikh leads several national and regional initiatives, including the National Cybersecurity Workforce Development Program and the Southeast Regional Hub for the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity. Eman received numerous grants to enhance cybersecurity education, workforce development, and capacity building. She launched the Cybersecurity for All庐 Program to enhance competencies and hands-on skills for evolving cybersecurity work roles. The program was recognized among the 2020 Innovations in Cybersecurity Education. 

Dr. El-Sheikh teaches and conducts research related to the development and evaluation of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for cybersecurity. She has published several books, including most recently, Computer and Network Security Essentials by Springer Publishing, over 75 peer-reviewed articles and given over 100 invited talks and presentations. 

Eman also co-founded the Florida Women in Cybersecurity Affiliate. She holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Michigan State University.

Dr. Tirthankar Ghosh is a Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Computer Science at UWF. Dr. Ghosh joined UWF in 2018 after spending 13 years at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota as their lead cybersecurity faculty and program director. He has over seventeen years of experience in cybersecurity education and research in network security, ICS security, anomaly detection, and adversary tactics techniques and procedures, and threat intelligence.

Dr. Ghosh has received multi-million dollars of grants from NSF, NSA, State of MN, state of FL, and private sectors. He established a funded research lab on industrial control systems using motes from Linear Technologies and Emerson Process Management on St. Cloud campus and has experience in leading several state-funded projects on scenario-based, competency-focused, learner-centric curriculum design using the NIST NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework.

Dr. Ghosh was the co-founder of a state-wide consortium in Minnesota and a regional cybersecurity consortium in St. Cloud. Dr. Ghosh authored a book titled 鈥淪ecurity by Practice: Exercises in Network Security and Information Assurance鈥�, and several journal papers and book chapters. He is also an ABET evaluator for Cybersecurity and Computer Science.

Dr. Ata Atadil, an Associate Professor, received his Ph.D. in Hospitality Management from the University of South Carolina (USC). He is the 2015 recipient of the Outstanding Scientific Paper Reviewer in Information Technology Award by International CHRIE. Before joining UWF in 2016, Ata was an adjunct professor at USC. He conducts research on cognitive neuroscience, decision-making behavior of travelers, branding and information technology. In addition, Ata serves as a reviewer for several tourism and hospitality journals.

Ata鈥檚 research interests span a wide range of pioneering topics in tourism and hospitality research. They include memetics, destination neurogenetics, meme map creation and travelers鈥� perceptions regarding new technologies such as guest room technologies.

He has published several articles in international journals such as Journal of Vacation Marketing and has several articles currently under review in top-tier journals, including Journal of Business Research and International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management. He also received the Best Research Visual Presentation Award by Annual iHITA Research Conference in 2015. Moreover, Ata identified grant opportunities and created more than 100 grant reports for the faculty members during his time in USC.

His Research projects have been presented in more than 15 international conferences ranging from EuroCHRIE to Annual International CHRIE Summer Conference & Marketplace. His recent research papers were presented in 2016 Global Marketing Conference and 2016 AMS World Marketing Congress that took place in Hong Kong and Paris, respectively.

Ata earned his master's and B.A. degrees in Tourism and Hospitality Management in Turkey. He completed the junior year of his B.A. degree as an exchange student at Linnaeus University in Kalmar, Sweden.

Ata, a Certified Hospitality Educator (CHE), has taught Hospitality and Tourism Marketing courses. He also single-handedly developed the Introduction to Hospitality online course and taught the very same course at USC. He received a quality award from the Provost鈥檚 office because of his efforts in developing this course.

Ata has first-hand industry experience as well. He worked in the front office and reservations departments in international chain hotels in Turkey and Sweden.

Ata considers teaching as the most valuable and essential acting performance that a person can perform during his or her life. A former theatre instructor and acting teacher, he enjoys bringing his theatrical skill set into the classroom.

He always considers his students to be the future leaders, entrepreneurs, managers and decision-makers of tourism and hospitality industry. 

Publications:
Erdem, M., Atadil, H. A., & Nasoz, P. (Accepted for publication) Leveraging guest-room technology: A tale of two guest profiles. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology.

Atadil, H. A., Sirakaya-Turk, E., Meng, F., & Decrop, A. (2018). Exploring travelers鈥� decision-making styles. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 30 (1), 618-636.

Atadil, H. A., Sirakaya-Turk, E., Baloglu, S., & Kirillova, K. (2017). Destination Neurogenetics: Creation of destination meme maps of tourists. Journal of Business Research, 74, 154-161.

Atadil, H. A., Sirakaya-Turk, E., & Altintas, V. (2017). An analysis of destination image for emerging markets of Turkey. Journal of Vacation Marketing, 23(1), 37-54.

Atadil, H. A., Berezina, K., Y谋lmaz, B. S., & Cobanoglu, C. (2010). An analysis of the usage of Facebook and Twitter as a marketing tool in hotels. Dokuz Eylul University Journal of Faculty of Business. 11(2), 119-125.

Dr. Brian Elzweig is an Associate Professor in the Department of Accounting and Finance.

Elzweig鈥檚 research focuses on various aspects of business law.  He has published many articles on securities law, general business law, and management issues that impact members of Generation X and subsequent generations.

Elzweig received a BS in Criminology from Florida State University, a JD from California Western School of Law, and an LL.M. in Securities and Financial Regulation form Georgetown University Law Center, and spent nine years at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, where he became a full professor. Prior to entering academe, Elzweig spent twelve years in law practice both in the private and public sectors.

His work has been published in the William and Mary Business Law Review, Pace Law Review, Harvard Business Review (online), Journal of Accountancy, Tax Adviser as well as other publications.  His research has been cited numerous times by many high-ranking law and business journals, as well as by the Federal Courts.

Dr. Barbara S. White, who teaches Accounting, can often summon teaching examples from her previous career in industry and banking.

Before earning her Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of Mississippi, White spent more than two decades in the private sector, primarily with the Colonial Companies. She was a corporate tax manager, bank acquisition coordinator, budget director, financial analyst and accounting manager.

White鈥檚 published research includes a triple-case study on the 50th anniversary of Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), implementing SFAS91 with its cost implications, and an evaluation of acceptable business practices by CPAs. That research was published in Research on Professional Responsibilities and Ethics in Accounting.

At the American Accounting Association鈥檚 meetings, she has presented papers  for the last four years, including in 2016 鈥淩EITs 鈥� The First Fifty Years and Beyond,鈥� 鈥淥ne College鈥檚 Journey through Assessment via an Annual Tax Service Learning Project,鈥� 鈥淒r. John Massey: Farm Boy, Confederate Soldier, and Renowned Educator 鈥� Financial Documentation as an Indicator of his Life鈥檚 Work,鈥� and 鈥淎n Empirical Examination of Non-GAAP Disclosures by Real Estate Investment Trusts Before and During a Period of Crisis.鈥�

White is a Certified Quality Matters Online Instructor.

White also wrote a book, 鈥淔amily-Career Choices: A Women鈥檚 Perspective,鈥� and has run marathons in all 50 states and on 6 continents.

Bill Huth, a Distinguished University Professor at the University of West Florida, conducts marine-related economic research, including the continued development of artificial reefs and their place in fishery management.

He is also interested in climate change, sea level rise and saltwater intrusion. To that end he is establishing a saltwater intrusion monitoring system (Hobo data recorders) in the Floridian aquifer.

Huth, who holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Arkansas, has been a UWF Scientific Diver. He is an artificial reef research specialist and author of professional publications on diving and marine resource valuation.

Huth also is examining the lionfish invasion threatening the waters around Florida and elsewhere. He developed the first measures of consumer willingness to pay for lionfish control through the creation of a fishery.

The economic experiment resulted in a paper (Huth, William L., Morgan, O. Ashton, and McEvoy, David, 鈥淐ontrolling an Invasive Species through Consumption: Private and Public Values of Eating Lionfish)鈥� accepted for presentation at the 2016 European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Conference in Zurich.

Huth was one of four faculty members to win College of Business E.W. Hopkins Faculty Development Awards in 2016.

Huth and colleagues often collaborate on research projects that examine both the economy and the environment. They include 鈥淒iving Demand for Large Ship Artificial Reefs,鈥� (Marine Resource Economics); an examination of benefits and costs associated with cave diving (Resource and Energy Economics); and various aspects of consumer demand for Gulf of Mexico oysters and impacts of the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Huth also was the lead investigator on the Florida Fish and Wildlife project, 鈥淢easuring Florida Artificial Reef Economic Benefits: A Synthesis.鈥� The 2015 report documented both saltwater fishing and SCUBA diving economic value for Florida statewide and for each of its 67 counties.

He was selected to attend the 2016 national workshop on artificial reefs that is being put on by NOAA and the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission.  

Dr. Guillermo A. Francia, III joined the University of West Florida Center for Cybersecurity in 2018. Previously, Dr. Francia served as the Director of the Center for Information Security and Assurance and held a Distinguished Professor position at Jacksonville State University. Dr. Francia is a recipient of numerous cybersecurity research and curriculum development grants. His projects have been funded by prestigious institutions such as the National Science Foundation, Eisenhower Foundation, Department of Education, Department of Defense, and Microsoft Corporation. 

His scholarly interests include critical infrastructure security, connected vehicle security, security standards, and regulatory compliance and audit, radio frequency signal security, industrial control systems (ICS) security, machine learning (ML) for security, and digital badging for learning and employment records (LERs). In 1996, Dr. Francia received one of the five national awards for Innovators in Higher Education from Microsoft Corporation. 

He served as a Fulbright scholar to Malta in 2007 and a US-UK Fulbright Cybersecurity research scholar to Imperial College London in the United Kingdom in 2017. Dr. Francia is the recipient of the 2018 National CyberWatch Center Innovations in Cyber Security Education 鈥� Faculty Development Category Award.

Nicole Gislason is the Executive Director of the University of West Florida Haas Center, part of UWF's Division of Academic Affairs. The center鈥檚 team supports communities with market research, workforce development and industrial innovation. The Haas Center鈥檚 information products and services are designed to inform strategic decision-making processes, enhance operational effectiveness, and improve the tactical performance of the region鈥檚 workforce. Gislason鈥檚 overall goal is to accelerate technology adoption, talent development, and business growth in an effort to enhance the region鈥檚 competitiveness. Her primary aptitude in higher education is an ability to communicate effectively with educators, business leaders, and government officials. This allows her to connect people who have common needs but different missions.

Gislason has been the principal investigator on numerous UWF research projects. She is the Vice Chair, of Florida鈥檚 Great Northwest and a Trustee with the Florida Chamber Foundation. She serves on the board of the Northwest Florida Manufacturers鈥� Council, and she is a member of the Rotary Club of Pensacola and Pensacola IMPACT 100. Her previous work includes a public-private partnership between Florida鈥檚 manufacturing sector, the State, and the National Institute for Standards and Technology鈥檚 (NIST) Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP). The MEP National Network, which operates in all 50 states, partners with organizations like the Haas Center to increase the productivity and technological performance of the region鈥檚 manufacturing firms. In just 21 months of regional operations with FloridaMakes/NIST, UWF achieved $118.2M in economic impact. Gislason's early grant experience includes a Department of Labor $3.9M award that enabled UWF to recruit, train and develop the IT workforce in a project known as Florida HireEd.

Nicole holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of West Florida鈥檚 College of Business. She has completed numerous executive education programs including two certificates in Additive Manufacturing for Innovative Design and Production from MIT. 

Gislason鈥檚 talented team of professionals and students operates a unique additive manufacturing laboratory, known as Sea3D. Housing state-of-the-art additive manufacturing equipment, the Sea3D lab provides a space for students, industry partners and community members to collaborate on the creation and printing of 3-D products. The business students and research staff work inside Pensacola's oldest schoolhouse at 212 Church Street.  

Dr. Wayne Bennett is a Professor of Marine Biology specializing in Physiological Ecology or the study of animal adaptation to environment.

Dr. Bennett earned a Ph.D. in Biological Science from the University of North Texas, an M.S. in Biology from the University of Texas, a B.S. in Biology from Michigan State University, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Research Laboratory on Pensacola Beach.

He has taught numerous graduate and undergraduate courses at UWF, including Animal Physiology, Marine Mammalogy, Ichthyology, and Elasmobranch Biology.

He has received nearly $500,000 in research funding and has a wide-ranging research program in southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia where he studies adaptations of animals living in extreme environments, including intertidal fish, crabs, cephalopods, elasmobranchs and other marine life.

Bennett鈥檚 published works include studies on environmental toxicology, reproductive ecology, thermal biology, bioenergetics, and ion osmoregulation. He has authored nearly 60 papers in peer-reviewed outlets such as Environmental Biology of Fishes, Journal of Herpetology, and American Macacological Bulletin.

Degrees & Institutions:
Postdoctoral Fellow, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Ph.D., Biological Science, University of North Texas
M.S. Biology, University of Texas
B.S. Biology, Michigan State University

Research:
Bennett has received nearly $500,000 in research funding and has a wide-ranging research program in southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia where he studies adaptations of animals living in extreme environments, including intertidal fish, crabs, cephalopods, elasmobranchs and other marine life.

Classes Taught:
Animal Physiology
Marine Mammalogy
Ichthyology
Elasmobranch Biology

Dr. Phil Darby earned a Ph.D. in Wildlife Ecology from the University of Florida. His research focuses on the population ecology and life history of wetland-dependent fauna. Current projects study the effects of hydrology and habitat structure on apple snails, which inhabit aquatic habitats throughout Florida.

Darby鈥檚 research team also publishes research on the endangered snail kite and other predators of apple snails. Government agency scientists and managers use a population model developed by Darby and colleagues, EverSnail, to evaluate the impacts of alternative water management scenarios related to Everglades restoration. Publications include Landscape Ecology, Condor, Malacologia, Aquatic Ecology, Waterbirds, and Wetlands.

Darby, a Professor, has made over 60 presentations about kites, snails and wetlands to various groups in Florida, at national science meetings, other universities, and to a science workshop in Argentina. Darby has developed collaborations in the Pensacola region to study wetland-dependent bird ecology, including marsh birds and wintering waterfowl. Among courses taught: Ecology, Ecology Lab, Avian Science, Wetlands Ecology, Quantitative Ecology, Animal Behavior. Darby has a M.S. in Ecotoxicology from Duke and two B.S. degrees from Virginia Tech 鈥� Wildlife Ecology and Biochemistry.

Degrees & Institutions:
Ph.D. Wildlife Ecology, University of Florida
M.S. Ecotoxicology, Duke
B.S. Virginia Tech, Wildlife Ecology and Biochemistry

Research:
His research focuses on the population ecology and life history of wetland-dependent fauna. Current projects study the effects of hydrology and habitat structure on apple snails, which inhabit aquatic habitats throughout Florida.  Darby鈥檚 research team also publishes research on the endangered snail kite and other predators of apple snails.

Classes Taught:
Wetlands Ecology
Quantitative Ecology
Animal Behavior
General Biology for Non-Majors
Publications:
Darby, P.C., I. Fujisaki, and D.J. Mellow. 2012. The effects of prey density

John D. Morgan is the primary faculty for the new online GIS Master's program offered by the Department of Earth and Environmental Studies. Morgan, who is an Associate Professor, graduated from Florida State University with a Ph.D. in Geography.

Morgan has over fifteen years of professional information technology experience (including GIS). Before he joined UWF, Morgan spent four years as an Applied Research Software Designer at the National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center at the University of North Carolina at Asheville.

Degrees & Institutions:
PhD Geography from Florida State University; Master of Science in Management and Bachelors of Arts in Economics from University of Central Florida

Research:
Dr. John D. Morgan is an urban environmental geographer who uses state-of-the-art geospatial methodologies to study how humans navigate changing environments in public space. This work involves three interrelated strains of work that focus on (1) developing spatial tools for safer communities, (2) participatory mapping of ecosystem services that considers local cultural attachment to place, and (3) innovative spatial modeling that informs land use planning, risk assessment and decision making.

Current Courses:
GIS Management
Communicating GIS
Classes Taught:
Cartographic Skills
GIS Management
Communicating GIS
GIS Programming
Advanced Topics in GIS
Applications in GIS

Dr. Phillip Schmutz, an Associate Professor and the Chair of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, researches coastal/beach and aeolian geomorphology, particularly factors that can build sand dunes. He is working to develop better techniques for understanding the dynamics of these environments and to build more realistic models of coastal aeolian systems. Before Schmutz joined UWF鈥檚 Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences in 2015, he earned a Ph.D. and a M.S. in Geography, both from Louisiana State University, and spent a year as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Texas A&M University鈥檚 Department of Geology and Geophysics. In his research, Schmutz has studied surface moisture, evaporation dynamics, coastal vegetation and other topics related to beaches.

His work has been published in Journal of Coastal Research, Journal of Aeolian Research, Geomorphology and elsewhere. Schmutz also has made numerous presentations to the Association of American Geographers. He teaches Earth Science, Geomorphology and other courses. He has a B.A. in Geography & Environmental Studies from Baylor University, where he won a scholarship to fund study abroad.

Anthony teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Computer Science and Software Engineering. He joined the faculty in 2002 after he earned a M.S. in Computer Science from UWF. Anthony, who spent 20 years on active duty with the U.S. Marine Corps, also has several years experience and training in business-related software development and cybersecurity.

Anthony coordinated UWF鈥檚 successful effort to be designated a National Security Agency/Department of Homeland Security National Center for Academic Excellence in Cyber Education. In addition, he is heavily involved in efforts to enhance Cyber Security education in the area including being a Mentor for CyberPatriot, Cyberthon as well as the Facility Advisor for the UWF Cybersecurity and coach for the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. Anthony's professional training includes Wireshark Advanced Network Analysis and Blackhat Certification in Hacking by the Numbers Bootcamp, Hacking by the Numbers BlackOps, pen testing with Kali Linux, Locking Down Linux and Adaptive Red Team tactics.

Dr. Sikha Bagui, Distinguished University Professor and Askew Fellow, was former Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Founding Director of the Center for Cybersecurity at The University of West Florida. Dr. Bagui is active in publishing peer reviewed journal articles in the areas of database design, data mining, Big Data analytics, Machine Learning and AI. Dr. Bagui has worked on funded as well unfunded research projects and has 85+ peer reviewed publications, some in highly selected journals and conferences. She has authored several books on database and SQL, and her books have been translated into several different languages and have international editions. Dr. Bagui also serves as Associate Editor and is on the editorial board of several journals. 

Degrees & Institutions:
Ed.D., Curriculum & Instruction: Math & Stat / Science/ Computer Science,
University of West Florida
M.B.A., University of Toledo
B.S., Cuttington University (Liberia)

Research:
Interests: Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Database Design, Data Pre-Processing

Grant Funding:
NSF CSForALL: $300,000, 10/1/2021-09/30/2023
NSF Collaborative: RAPID, $50,000, 01/25/2021 - 04/30/2021
NSF Collaborative: Elements: RUI: $350,000, 01/25/2021-10/31/2022
NSA NCAE: $375,511, 9/22/2021-12/31/2024
Center for Inclusive Computing: $60,000, 1/2021 鈥� 1/2023
Current Courses:
Database Systems
Introduction to Big Data Analytics
Advanced Big Data Analytics
Introduction to Data Mining
Advanced Data Mining
Project (Special topics on Data Mining, Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics)

Dr. Johan Liebens studies soil and sediment pollution to characterize the origin, level and spatial distribution of the pollution. His projects include examining the effects of high-intensity grazing on soil quality indicators and seeking ways to develop stream bank erosion prediction curves for Northwest Florida. Liebens is a Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. He has a Ph.D. in Geography from Michigan State University, and a Master鈥檚 degree in Quaternary Geology and a Bachelor鈥檚 degree in Geography, both from Free University Brussels, Belgium.

A UWF faculty member since 1996, Liebens has received university-wide awards for his teaching (2000) and his research (2012). He has published findings on soil organic carbon stocks, debris flows, environmental forensics and soil and sediment pollution. In his research Liebens often uses GIS-based spatial analyses, surveying and physical and chemical analyses of soil and sediment samples. He also is experienced in geomorphological and geological field mapping. Among the groups which have funded his work are: National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Environmental Protection Agency and Florida Center for Solid and Hazardous Waste Management. Articles by Liebens have appeared in Environmental Forensics, Environmental Geology, Environmental Practice, Geomorphology, Water Air and Soil Pollution, Soil and Sediment Contamination, Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, and Soil Use and Management.

Degrees & Institutions:
Ph.D. Geography, Michigan State University
M.S. Quaternary Geology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
B.S. Geography, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Research:
I am a broad-based physical geographer with research interests in environmental soil science and geomorphology. I study soil and sediment pollution to characterize the origin, level and spatial distribution of the pollution. Most recently I have assessed organic and inorganic pollution of surface soils, estuarine sediments, and stormwater retention ponds. Currently, I have a project that seeks to develop streambank erosion prediction curves for the Florida Panhandle. I also have publications on soil organic carbon stocks, debris flows, and surveying methods. GIS-based spatial analyses are part of most of my research, as are surveying and physical and chemical analyses of soil and sediment samples. Earlier in my career I gained valuable experience with geomorphological and geological field mapping. I have international university-level teaching experience and have presented my research results at national and international conferences. My research has been funded, among others, by NSF, GSA, USDA, EPA, and Florida Center for Solid and Hazardous Waste Management. I have published in Environmental Forensics, Environmental Geology, Environmental Practice, Geomorphology, Water Air and Soil Pollution, Soil and Sediment Contamination, Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, and Soil Use and Management. At the University of West Florida I have received university-wide teaching (2000) and research (2012) awards.

Dr. Karen W. Barnes received her P.h.D. in Chemistry from the University of Florida. Barnes spends additional time researching Food Analyses. She teaches Chemistry 2045 Lab and Chemistry 2046 Lab. 

Degrees & Institutions:
Ph.D., University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
B.S., University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida 

Research:
Barnes spends additional time researching Food Analyses.

Current Courses:
General Chemistry I Lab
General Chemistry II Lab
Analytical Chemistry
Analytical Chemistry Lab
Publications:
Barnes, K.W.; and C.J. Fields-Wolf, General Chemistry I Laboratory, University of West Florida, Pensacola, 2018. All royalties from this Laboratory Manual have been used to establish a UWF Chemistry scholarship.

Barnes, K.W.; and C.J. Fields-Wolf, General Chemistry II Laboratory, University of West Florida, Pensacola, 2018. All royalties from this Laboratory Manual have been used to establish a UWF Chemistry scholarship.