Dr. Charles Kenneth Nicholas
Professor · Tenured
About
Born in Elyria, Ohio. Raised in Flint, Michigan. B.S. from UM – Flint, M.S. and Ph.D. from Ohio State. Came to UMBC in 1988, and I’m still here.
Research interests
Malware analysis, authorship attribution, clustering algorithms
Teaching interests
Digital humanities, information retrieval, cybersecurity, applications of machine learning
Education
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Ph D, Computer Science
— The Ohio State University (1988) Assuring Accessibility of Complex Software Systems
- MS, Computer Science — The Ohio State University (1982)
- BS, Computer Science — University of Michigan - Flint (1979)
Publications
- How to build a malware classifier [that doesn't suck on real-world data] 2016
Grants and Contracts
- IPA for Charles Nicholas 2015
- Future Trends in Malware Toolkits 2012