Information Security Management (graduate)

• Taught within the Masters of Business Analytics—Security track.
• Compared to the undergraduate offering, this course’s lectures have a stronger focus on specific security behaviors that generate data amenable to machine learning – e.g., post mortem reports from Mandiant and the House Oversight Committee (Equifax, OPM)

Information Security Management (undergraduate)

• Exploration of human, organizational, and technical domains of information security management.
• Self-created hands-on Google Cloud virtual machine labs to teach students to “think like attackers”

Security Analytics

• A projects-based class focused on applying machine learning to security-related data. Topics include malware classification (binomial and multinomial), modeling using mobile sensor data, network traffic parsing (PCAPS => netflows) and malicious IP, domain classification
• A focus on using python-sklearn – on reading documentation and source code
• Also a focus on “open data science” – on hosted Jupyter notebooks, on using Git and Github to store and share code projects. Also on sharing and programmatically consuming shared data.
• Labs have students host models behind API endpoints (Flask app). Models are also deployed to AWS and GCP’s machine learning platforms.

Business Analytics

• Descriptive: querying, and ETL/wrangling data with Alteryx
• Predictive: supervised vs unsupervised machine learning algorithms
• Used Alteryx and DataRobot AutoML
• Covering topics such as association rules, k-means clusters, regressions, correlations, and text mining

Database Management

Taught relational database structures and data querying in MySQL and R to Juniors and Seniors from various departments

Spreadsheets for Business Majors

Full responsibility for four college-level class sections on computer spreadsheet skills, with total enrollment of over 270 across four sections. Mix of online plus in-class teaching. Oversight of three teaching assistants.

Microsoft Excel workshops for Katz Graduate students

Taught four beginner-to-advanced-level Microsoft Excel workshops to part-time Katz MBA students

Introduction to Information Systems Management

• Full responsibility for a class of 60 undergraduate students from various departments of the University of Pittsburgh’s College of Business Administration.
• Complete direction over course curriculum, policies, and syllabus.