John Homer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Contact Information:

Office: 256 Mabee Business Building
Address: ACU Box 29304, Abilene, Texas 79699
E-mail: john.homer@acu.edu
Telephone: 325-674-6603

Degrees, Licenses & Certificates:

• Ph.D. (Computer Science) Kansas State University, 2009.
• M.S. (Computer Science) Kansas State University, 2006.
• B.S. (Computer Science) Harding University, 2002.

Academic Positions Held:

• Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Abilene Christian University.
• Graduate Research Assistant, Kansas State University.
• Graduate Teaching Assistant, Kansas State University.

Other Positions Held:

• Intern, Rockwell Collins, Cedar Rapids, IA
• Intern, Thunderhead Engineering, Manhattan, KS
• Software Developer, Shell Lubricants, Houston, TX
• Intern, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington, D.C.
• Intern, National Association of Insurance Commissioners, Kansas City, MO 

 Publications:

• "A Sound and Practical Approach to Quantifying Security Risk in Enterprise Networks." John Homer, Xinming Ou and David Schmidt. Technical report. Kansas State University. August 2009.
• "SAT-Solving Approaches to Context-Aware Enterprise Network Security Management." with Xinming Ou. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Special Issue on Network Infrastructure Configuration. to be published 2nd quarter 2009.
• "Improving Attack Graph Visualization through Data Reduction and Attack Grouping." with Ashok Varikuti, Xinming Ou, and Miles McQueen. 5th International Workshop on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec'08).
• "From Attack Graphs to Automated Configuation Management - An Iterative Approach." with Xinming Ou and Miles McQueen. Technical Report. Kansas State University. January 2008.
• "Process Swapping in MINIX." M.S. Thesis. Kansas State University. May 2006.