Department of Computer Science

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Charles Frank, Ph.D.
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Charles Frank received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1975. Dr. Frank has taught at Penn State and Iowa State and worked at Bell Labs. He has been a member of the computer science faculty at Northern Kentucky University since 1979. During the Spring Semester of 2003, Dr. Frank was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) at Purdue University. He regularly teaches courses in computer security and computer information technology.

His paper “Getting a Hook on Phishing” with Laurie Werner of Miami University won a Distinguished Paper Award at ISECON 2007. At SIGCSE’08, Dr. Frank has presented workshops in secure programming and software security with Dr. James Walden. He has guided a number of undergraduate research projects. His latest project with Justin Billig and Yuri Danilchenko resulted in a paper “Evaluation of Google Hacking” that will be presented at InfoSecCD’08.