First, thanks for having me on. I really enjoy talking about my research other things as well this is gonna be a lot of fun for me are so I'm originally from Winnipeg, Canada. So a lot of people don't know where that is so if you take a flight to Minneapolis, hop in a car and drive nine hours north you're in Winnipeg. So I am very familiar with winter. I went South to do my undergraduate so for us south is Montana, so I went down out to Montana to the United States to do my undergraduate, then moved and did my PhD at Washington state. My first academic job was in San Francisco worked there for three years and I moved out to Massachusetts for a few years and now I'm here in Charlottesville Virginia at McIntire school. So as every good Canadian, I enjoy hockey and I still play hockey here down in Charlottesville, so that's what I enjoy to do when I'm not hanging out with my family or my kids. I still have all my teeth intact, I wear a face shield, my dental insurance is not good enough to wear no face shield.

At McIntyre, we're a first and foremost, sort of undergraduate business schools. So we have a smaller school with about, a little under eight hundred students that we have here and we have no plans to grow that and it's been that size for a very long time. The area that I am in a position to speak about most is the IT area, so we offer an IT concentration and a business analytics tracks and the majority of our students are also taking that business analytics track and they get consulting jobs, you can imagine from the number, Booz Allen, the Bain etc. compete for our students. A lot of technology jobs are based on that. We have several students that actually move out to San Francisco after their careers. Right now, analytics is really hot so most of our students come out with a few different offers. The majority of all McIntyre students, that said, do go to banking. It's like sixty percent of all of our students, some form of commercial private equity, some form of banking.Our graduate programs, we have several. The ones that are in my area, we have an executive program, an IT executive program. So, we take about eighty students a year that have a variety of experience. In fact, I was on the admissions committee sitting down, figuring out who we gonna admit just recently. And I would say the majority have ten plus years of IT management experience so these are people are coming back, to kind of hone their skills and figure out what are the latest and greatest. We also have a brand new masters in business analytics program as most universities seem to now. We are very excited that this is our first partnership with Darden. Darden is the other business on campus, they are primarily an MBA school. So we are in a fifty-fifty partnership with McIntyre and Darden to launch this program in the fall and that will be really exciting to see where we place our students.

So lately, I have had two strong streams of research, one is cyber security and I will discuss kind of my major project on cybersecurity next and another one is adoption and diffusion of IT in different organizations particularly in small businesses and nonprofit. So one research program that I've been involved with in the last four years we kind of dub human firewall. So this is cybersecurity, this is figuring out what organizational and behavioral interventions we can have to actually build resilience within these organizations. So the human firewall is basically layering the human element on top of the current technologies, so say you have a regular firewall that filters out emails and addresses and then on top of it you have the human element and it's the way those two interact, so you get the best results for that. So this is funded by NSF grant that we started some four years ago and it's continuing on. We have pending grants and whole school of papers out of this. The one thing that I'm most excited about right now is we're actually using social network analysis to predict teams and individual susceptibility to phishing emails. That's the project that's going on right now. We just ran a pilot, we're collecting further data. It is the first study that we know of to look at cyber security resilience at the team level rather than at the individual level.