EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science, 3.94 GPA, Dissertation: Data Mining and Visualization of Reference Associations: Higher-Order Citation Analysis, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, 2001.

Master of Science, Computer Science, 4.0 GPA, Thesis: Wavelet Transforms for Radar Proximity Fuzing, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, 1998.

Graduate work, Computational Sciences, George Mason University, 1991–1992.

Graduate work, Physics, Virginia Tech, 1990–1991.

Bachelor of Science, cum laude, Electro-Optics, University of Houston, Clear Lake, 1989.

Associate of Applied Science, summa cum laude, Computer Systems, Alvin Community College, 1984.

Associate of Applied Science, cum laude, Computer Science, Alvin Community College, 1983.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Research Scientist, Center for Secure Information Systems, George Mason University, 2001 – present

·        Leading U.S.-only R&D team

o       Guiding research efforts of the team

o       Defining requirements for software tool development

o       Writing proposals resulting in successful procurements of funds

o       Describing and demonstrating developed technologies in numerous venues

·        Generating intellectual property

o       Successfully transitioned to commercial sector

o       Protected by several U.S. patents

·        Original contributions to developed technologies include

o       Innovative attack graph visual overviews with detail drilldown

o       Correlating intrusion alarms through attack graphs

o       Performing automatic optimal network hardening

·        Published various book chapters and technical papers in the refereed journals and conference proceedings

Associate Director of Research, Digital Media Laboratory, George Washington University, 2001

·        Instrumental in formation of new Digital Media Laboratory

·        Wrote proposals resulting in successful procurements of funds

·        Represented Laboratory in various venues

·        Published technical papers in the refereed journals and conference proceedings

Computer Engineer, Weapons System Department, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division, 1997 –1998

·        Led R&D effort for digital signal processor for radar proximity fuze

o       Secured $750K project funding

o       Developed pattern recognition and signal processing techniques leading to significantly improved target detection

o       Designed environment for integrated hardware/software development, greatly streamlining process and reducing development time

·        Managed project for multi-spectral infrared fuze with digital signal processor

o       Secured $500K SBIR funding

o       Led R&D in detector materials and signal processing techniques

Physicist, Strategic and Strike Systems Department, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division, 1990 – 1996

·        Performed research and analysis for submarine-launched ballistic missiles

o       Tested software for simulating high-altitude electromagnetic pulse effects

o       Developed catalog of stars for in-flight stellar sightings by missile guidance system

o       Investigated optimal targeting via genetic algorithms

o       Developed interactive 3-D graphics model of submarine

·        Evaluated video recorders for surface-to-air missile low-light-level television

o       Defined criteria for test/evaluation of video recorders from competing vendors

o       Conducted tests with live and synthetic video signals

o       Applied evaluation criteria, selected products for Navy procurement

PUBLICATIONS

International Journals

• Steven Noel, C.-H. Henry Chu, Vijay Raghavan, “Co-Citation Count versus Correlation for Influence Network Visualization,” Information Visualization, 2(3), 2003.
• Harold Szu, Steven Noel, Seong-Bin Yim, Jeff Willey, Joe Landa, “Multimedia Authenticity Protection with Independent Component Watermarking and Digital Bacteria Vaccination,” Neural Networks, issue for selected papers from 2003 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2003.
• Steven Noel, Harold Szu, “Proximity Sensing with Wavelet-Generated Video,” Journal of Electronic Imaging, 7(4), October 1998.

International Conferences and Workshops

• Steven Noel, “Secure Information Infrastructure Protection through Topological Vulnerability Analysis,” 84^th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, DC, January 2005.
• Steven Noel, Eric Robertson, Sushil Jajodia, “Correlating Intrusion Events and Building Attack Scenarios through Attack Graph Distances,” in Proceedings of the 20^th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, Tucson, Arizona, December 2004.
• Steven Noel, Sushil Jajodia, “Managing Attack Graph Complexity through Visual Hierarchical Aggregation,” in Proceedings of the ACM CCS Workshop on Visualization and Data Mining for Computer Security,  Fairfax, Virginia, October 2004.
• Steven Noel, Sushil Jajodia, Brian O’Berry, Michael Jacobs, “Efficient Minimum-Cost Network Hardening via Exploit Dependency Graphs,” in Proceedings of the 19^th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, December 2003.
• Harold Szu, Steven Noel, Seong-Bin Yim, Jeff Willey, Joe Landa, “Multimedia Authenticity Protection with Digital Bacteria Vaccination of Independent Component Watermarks,” in Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Portland, Oregon, July 2003.
• Ronald Ritchey, Brian O’Berry, Steven Noel “Representing TCP/IP Connectivity for Topological Analysis of Network Security,” in Proceedings of the 18^th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, December 2002.
• Steven Noel, “Architecture for Topological Vulnerability Analysis,” Annual Weapons Control Technology Symposium, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland, June 2002.
• Brian O’Berry, Steven Noel, Charles Hutchinson, Sushil Jajodia, “Topological Vulnerability Analysis,” NSA Information Assurance Working Symposium, Tampa, Florida, July 2002.
• Steven Noel, C.-H. Henry Chu, Vijay Raghavan, “Visualization of Document Co-Citation Counts,” in Proceedings of the 6^th International Conference on Information Visualization, London, England, July 2002.
• Steven Noel, Brian O’Berry, Charles Hutchinson, Sushil Jajodia, Lynn Keuthan, and Andy Nguyen, “Combinatorial Analysis of Network Security,” in Proceedings of the 16^th Annual International Symposium on Aerospace/Defense Sensing, Simulation, and Controls, Orlando, Florida, April 2002.
• Neil Johnson, Robert Weierbach, Brian O'Berry, Steven Noel, Charles Youman, “Information Assurance Products: Research and Test Results,” E-Gov Information Assurance Conference, Washington, DC, December 2001.
• Steven Noel, Seong-Bib Yim, Harold Szu, “Detecting Electrocardiogram Abnormalities with Independent Component Analysis,” in Proceedings of the 15^th Annual International Symposium on Aerospace/Defense Sensing, Simulation, and Controls, Orlando, Florida, April 2001.
• Steven Noel, “Advanced Approaches to Network Vulnerability Analysis,” DISA/NRL/NSA Workshop on Optical and Protocol Vulnerability Assessment in Fiber Optic Communication Networks, McLean, Virginia, May 2001.
• Steven Noel, Vijay Raghavan, C.-H. Henry Chu, “Visualizing Association Mining Results through Hierarchical Clusters,” in Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, San Jose, California, November 2001.
• Steven Noel, Harold Szu, “Multimedia Authenticity with Independent-Component Watermarks,” in Proceedings of the 14^th Annual International Symposium on Aerospace/Defense Sensing, Simulation, and Controls, Orlando, Florida, April 2000.
• Steven Noel, Harold Szu, Nian-Feng Tzeng, Chee-Hung Henry Chu, Santipong Tanchatchawal, “Video Compression with Embedded Wavelet Coding and Singularity Maps,” in Proceedings of the 13^th Annual International Symposium on Aerospace/Defense Sensing, Simulation, and Controls, Orlando, Florida, April 1999.
• Yogesh Gohel, Steven Noel, Harold Szu, “Wavelets and Neural Networks for Radar Proximity Fuzing,” in Proceedings of the 12^th Annual International Symposium on Aerospace/Defense Sensing, Simulation, and Controls, Orlando, Florida, April 1998.
• Addison Jump, Harold Szu, Steven Noel, “Characterization of Polynomials Satisfying the Super-Haar Condition,” in Proceedings of the 12^th Annual International Symposium on Aerospace/Defense Sensing, Simulation, and Controls, Orlando, Florida, April 1998.
• Steven Noel, Harold Szu, “Doppler Frequency Estimation with Wavelets and Neural Networks,” in Proceedings of the 12^th Annual International Symposium on Aerospace/Defense Sensing, Simulation, and Controls, Orlando, Florida, April 1998.
• Steven Noel, Harold Szu, “Multiple-Resolution Clustering for Recursive Divide and Conquer,” in Proceedings of the 11^th Annual International Symposium on Aerospace/Defense Sensing, Simulation, and Controls, Orlando, Florida, April 1997.
• Steven Noel, Harold Szu, Yogesh Gohel, “Wavelet Detection of Singularities in the Presence of Fractal Noise,” in Proceedings of the 11^th Annual International Symposium on Aerospace/Defense Sensing, Simulation, and Controls, Orlando, Florida, April 1997.
• Steven Noel, Harold Szu, “Multiple-Resolution Divide and Conquer Neural Networks for Large Scale TSP-Like Problems,” in Proceedings of the International Conference on Neural Networks, Houston, Texas, July 1997.

Book Chapters

• Sushil Jajodia, Steven Noel, Brian O’Berry, “Topological Analysis of Network Attack Vulnerability,” in Managing Cyber Threats: Issues, Approaches and Challenges, V. Kumar, J. Srivastava, A. Lazarevic (eds.), Kluwer Academic Publisher, 2003.
• Steven Noel, Vijay Raghavan, C.-H. Henry Chu, “Document Clustering, Visualization, and Retrieval via Link Mining,” in Clustering and Information Retrieval, W. Wu, H. Xiong, and S. Shekhar (eds.), Kluwer Academic Publisher, 2002.
• Steven Noel, Duminda Wijesekera, Charles Youman, “Modern Intrusion Detection, Data Mining, and Degrees of Attack Guilt,” in Applications of Data Mining in Computer Security, D. Barbarà and S. Jajodia (eds.), Kluwer Academic Publisher, 2002.
• Steven Noel, Harold Szu, “Wavelets and Neural Networks for Radar,” in Progress in Unsupervised Learning of Artificial Neural Networks and Real-World Applications, Russian Academy of Nonlinear Sciences, ISBN 0-620-23629-9, 1998.

Other Publications

• Steven Noel, Vijay Raghavan, C.-H. Henry Chu, “Clustering and Visualizing Retrieval Output with Higher-Order Co-Citations,” paper contest winner, IEEE Student Chapter, University of Louisiana, May 2001.
• Steven Noel, Data Mining and Visualization of Reference Associations: Higher Order Citation Analysis, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Louisiana, Fall 2000.
• Steven Noel, Wavelet Transforms for Radar Proximity Fuzing, M.S. Thesis, University of Louisiana, Fall 1998.
• Steven Noel, Construction of the MK5A Star Catalog, technical report, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, Virginia, 1996.
• Mathew Zuraski, Steven Noel, Video Demonstration for NATO Seasparrow Low-Light-Level Television, technical report, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, Virginia, 1991.

U.S. PATENTS (PENDING)

• Steven Noel, Sushil Jajodia, Brian O’Berry, Michael Jacobs, Minimum-Cost Network Hardening
• Steven Noel, Eric Robertson, Sushil Jajodia, Correlating Intrusion Events Using Attack Graph Distances
• Steven Noel, Sushil Jajodia, Attack Graph Aggregation
• Sushil Jajodia, Steven Noel, Michael Jacobs, Brian O’Berry, Robert Weierbach, Eric Robertson, Pramod Kalapa, Network Attack Modeling, Analysis, and Response