General Information
Biography
Dr. Matthew Hale is an Associate Professor of Cybersecurity at University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) and the Director for the School of Interdisciplinary Informatics in the College of Information Science and Technology. Dr. Hale received his PhD from the University of Tulsa (TU) where he worked with the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) on the creation of formal certification tools to provide information assurance capabilities to cloud-based information systems in a way that spans federal government and private regulatory documents. This work produced a formal verification language called Cloud X-UNITY and an interchangeable XML Schema for Security SLA specification called SecAgreement.His current research interests focus on the intersectionality between security, web services, software engineering, and behavioral psychology. Since joining UNO in 2014, Dr. Hale has received nearly $5.7 Million in grant funding, ($1.4M as PI), from NSF, NSA, DARPA, USDoT, and others. Currently active projects include CyberTrust, a research platform for exploring the psychology of phishing, identifying behavioral and structural antecedents of trust, and providing targeted personalized training to prevent future victimization, Scholarship for Service, an NSF-funded project to train the next generation of cybersecurity public servants, and Nebraska GenCyber, an NSA/NSF-funded STEM-education effort that has trained over 60 area high school teachers to teach cybersecurity topics in their classrooms and has impacted over 3000 students.Dr. Hale served as the 2019-2020 Faculty Senate President for UNO and has been actively engaged in a variety of service initiatives around the UNO Campus. In his spare time, Dr. Hale enjoys a love of cooking, which he thinks isn't all that different from software engineering (e.g. components, connectors, and patterns), web development, philosophy, and tabletop and creative story-telling games – mainly D&D.
Teaching Interests
Secure Web Application Development, Secure IoT Applications, Information Security and Policy, Capstone Projects
Research Interests
Online privacy and security, Preventing phishing and social media scams, Internet of Things and Mobile Security, Cloud-based Web Services, Compliance certification
Service Summary
University Level: 2020 - Present Diversity Equity and Inclusion Task Force (member) 2019 - Present Conflict of Interest Committee (member) 2019 - 2022 UNO Weather Advisory Committee (member) 2020 - 2022 Chancellors Transportation Sustainability Subcommittee (member) 2019 - 2022 Chancellor’s Sustainability Committee (member) 2020 - 2021 Safety Leadership Team (member) 2019 - 2021 UNO-UNMC Faculty Senate Coordination Committee (co-chair) 2019 - 2020 Board of Regents Faculty Senate Engagement council (member) 2019 - 2020 Faculty Senate (President) 2018 - 2020 Faculty Senate (member) 2018 - 2020 Digital Communications Executive Committee (member) 2018 - 2020 Strategic Planning Steering Committee (member) 2018 - 2019 Faculty Senate Academic and Curricular Affairs Committee (member) 2018 - 2019 Faculty Senate Bylaws Revision Committee (member) 2019 - 2019 Hiring Committee for faculty senate coordinator (chair) College / Department Level: 2017 - 2021, 2023-Present IS&T Advisory Committee (Chair) 2017 - Present IS&T Diversity and Inclusion Committee (member) 2015 - Present Hiring Committees (chaired several, member for others) 2021 – 2023 Si2 Graduate Program Chair 2021 – 2023 IS&T Personnel Committee (Chair 2021-2022, member 2022-2023) 2020 - 2021 Hiring Committee (Chair for two CYBR instructors) 2014 - 2021 Si2 Cybersecurity Graduate Program Committee (member, chair starting as of 2020)