IDENTITY - Key Persons
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- Texas Materials Institute / View in UT Directory
Bruce has been responsible for strategic planning and research for the Bureau of Business Research since 1998. Under his leadership, the Bureau has won a number of research grants and contracts from a variety of sponsors, including the National Science Foundation, NASA, and the State of Texas. He is former editor of Texas Business Review and and in 2017 served as president of the Association for University Business and Economic Research, a leading professional organization devoted to improving the quality and application of research in public policy and business economics. Kellison frequently collaborates with social work scholars and has written about the economic impact of human trafficking, sexually oriented businesses, the rape kit backlog crisis, and sexual assault. He has a doctorate in government from The University of Texas at Austin.
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- Chief Information Security Officer, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
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- Moody College of Communication / View in UT Directory
Dawna Ballard (Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara, 2002) is an expert in chronemics--the study of time as it is bound to human communication. She researches what drives our pace of life and its impact on the communication practices of organizations, communities, and individuals. This includes studies on attention management, multitasking, communication overload, social media use, sustainable career practices, mobile communication technologies (including mobile wallet use), and tradeoffs between convenience and security.
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- School of Information / View in UT Directory
Dr. Craig Blaha is an adjunct lecturer at the School of Information with expertise in social networking, privacy, information security, and archives.
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- Moody College of Communication / View in UT Directory
Dr. Matt McGlone (Ph.D., Princeton University) is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Faculty Affiliate of the Center for Health Communication and Center for Identity. He studies social influence, persuasion, and deception, with an emphasis on the key role language plays in these processes. He has two main research programs. One explores the strategic arousal of fear to promote healthy behavior. In particular, he is interested in the persuasive advantage of messages that describe health threats as actors (e.g. Influenza kills thousands of people every year) over others that describe humans as actors (e.g., Thousands of people die from influenza every year). A second program investigates the communication processes involved in identity theft. Dr. McGlone and his students conduct research with UT's Center for Identity examining the deception tactics used by identity thieves and developing best practices for educating consumers and businesses about protecting themselves from this growing criminal threat. He teaches courses on persuasion, deception, and identity management in interpersonal communication.
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- Cockrell School School of Engineering / View in UT Directory
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- School of Information / View in UT Directory
Dr. Philip Doty joined the faculty of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at U.T. Austin in January 1992, where he is currently an Associate Professor. His research and teaching interests center on Internet and other computer networks, copyright, privacy, governmental information policy, digital libraries, scientific and technical communication, the social effects of technology, art and museum information, and research methods. He is a founding Associate Director of the Telecommunications and Information Policy Institute, an interdisciplinary research and service organziation that serves the people and governments of the state of Texas and the United States. His work at The University of Texas at Austin includes information technology planning and development of information policy programs with the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the College of Communication. He is author or co-author of some 40 scholarly papers and reports and the co-author of "The National Research and Education Network (NREN): Research and Policy Perspectives. " He has done research sponsored by, among others, the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Council on Library Resources, the Office of Court Adminstration and the Supreme Court of Texas, and the National Endowment for the Arts (through the Museum Computer Network). His recent work has included investigations of the use and potential use of information technology in courts in rural Texas and consulting with the (Texas) Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund.
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- at & T Endowed Professor
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
Dr. Suzanne Barber is the AT&T Endowed Professor in Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Center for Identity at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Barber's current research investigates trusted digital identities, cybersecurity and privacy.
Previously serving as the Director of Software Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Barber remains an active member of the Software Engineering and Systems area where her research has spanned the areas of information assurance, cyber-trust, cybersecurity, identity management, identity theft and fraud, intelligent agent-based systems, and software engineering. Dr. Barber has invented and commercialized systems engineering lifecycle applications to provide unprecedented levels of project and system visibility, analytics, communication, and collaboration for all stakeholders throughout the lifecycle.
Professionally, Dr. Barber has served on numerous conference and government committees (Defense Science Study Group, Army Science Board). Dr. Barber currently serves as a Senior Advisor to the Department of Homeland Security.
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- Senior Research & Development Advisor, National Office for Identity Data Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, Netherlands
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- Deputy Special Agent in Charge, Mid - States Field Division, US Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration
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- Assistant Director, Futures Identity, Office of Biometric Identity Management, Department of Homeland Security
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- Associate Professor in the School of Information
- School of Information / View in UT Directory
Kenneth R. Fleischmann is an Associate Professor in the School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on understanding the role of human values in the design and use of information technologies, developing new technologies for ethics education and evaluating the effectiveness of ethics education for preparing information professionals for the ethical challenges that they will face in the workforce, and developing new approaches for computational social science through collaboration with computational linguists. His research has been funded by nine grants and fellowships from the National Science Foundation (NSF) as well as funding from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), and has been published in journals such as Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Communications of the ACM, Computer, and The Information Society. He serves as an Associate Editor of The Information Society.
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- Director of Information Security at Retail
- School of Information / View in UT Directory
Lance Hayden is the Director of Information Security at RetailMeNot in Austin, as well as an adjunct faculty member at the School of Information. Lance has worked in the security and privacy industry for nearly thirty years, with roles in government, industry, and academia. He earned both his MLIS and PhD from the iSchool.
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- Director of the University of Texas at Austin
- Moody College of Communication / View in UT Directory
Michael Mackert, Ph.D., is the Director of The University of Texas at Austin Center for Health Communication and Professor in the Stan Richards School of Advertising & Public Relations and Department of Population Health. His research focuses primarily on the strategies that can be used in traditional and new digital media to provide effective health communication to low health literate audiences. He leads projects on a variety of public health issues - including tobacco cessation, opioid overdose prevention, and men's role in prenatal health - that generate evidence-based health communication strategies for our partners and contribute to health communication scholarship.
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- Cockrell School School of Engineering / View in UT Directory
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- Section Chief - Financial Crimes, Federal Bureau of Investigation
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- Assistant Director, Homeland Security Investigations
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- Department of Geography and the Environment
Paul Adams received his Bachelor of Environmental Design from the University of Colorado-Boulder in 1984 (Special Honors), and his MS and Ph.D. in geography from University of Wisconsin-Madison (1990, 1993). Since 2003 he has been Director of the Urban Studies Program and Chair of the Communication Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers. He was a Fulbright Research Fellow at the University of Bergen, Norway, in fall of 2010. He was a visiting Fulbright Fellow and Thomas O. Enders Fellow at McGill University and University of Montreal, Quebec, in fall semester, 2001.
Adams regularly teaches GRG305, This Human World (introductory human geography) and URB301, Introduction to Urban Studies, as well as URB315, Urban Studies Research Methods and GRG390L, Research in Geography. He has also taught Geographies of the Information Society, Statistics for Policy Design, and graduate seminars addressing geopolitics and representation.
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- Chief Technology Officer, HID Global
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- School of Information / View in UT Directory
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- Deputy Assistant Director, US Secret Service