Steven Noel is Associate Director and Senior Research Scientist at the George Mason University Center for Secure Information Systems. His research interests include cyber attack modeling, intrusion detection data mining, and visualization for information security. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2000. His dissertation work was in data mining and visualization for information retrieval. He also earned an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (1998) and a B.S. in Electro-Optics from the University of Houston – Clear Lake (1989). From 1990 to 1998, Dr. Noel was a research scientist at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Virginia, where he worked in image/video compression, wavelets, neural networks, genetic algorithms, radar signal processing, missile guidance, and astronomy. He has published numerous conference papers, journal articles, and technical reports. He is a member of IEEE, SPIE, and INNS, as well as the Alpha Chi, Phi Kappa Phi, and Upsilon Pi Epsilon honor societies.