Dr. Charles Kenneth Nicholas

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

  • 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 Security Education Conference Toronto (SecTor) John Seymour, Charles K Nicholas

Grants and Contracts

  • IPA for Charles Nicholas 2015 DOD, NSA 12.900 · IPA · Funded
  • Future Trends in Malware Toolkits 2012 U.S. Army · Sponsored Research · In-Progress