Melvin Lachman Chair in Entrepreneurship
Nicole Beebe, Ph.D., CISSP
Melvin Lachman Chair in Entrepreneurship
Professor, Information Systems and Cyber Security
Chair, Department of Information Systems and Cyber Security
Nicole Beebe is a leading expert in digital forensics, cyber security and data analytics who has over 20 years of industry and government experience in information security and digital forensics.
Beebe’s research focuses on intelligent digital forensics recovery and retrieval techniques, the use of data mining and machine learning techniques to solve information security problems, and strategic decision making involving organizational information security management.
Her research has appeared in numerous journals, including Decision Support Systems, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Digital Investigation, the IEEE Internet of Things Journal and many others. She has published several book chapters in the Advances in Digital Forensics series, published in several conference proceedings and given countless invited talks and keynotes over the years. Her research has been cited well over 1,000 times, and she serves in an editorial capacity for a number of journals and international conferences.
Beebe has served on the board of directors for the American Society of Digital Forensics & eDiscovery and the Digital Forensics Consortium and is a member of several professional organizations, including the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the Information Systems Security Association, among many others.
She is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and has held three professional certifications in digital forensics. Prior to entering academia, she spent nearly a decade as a computer crime investigator for the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations and several years in private industry as a senior network security engineer.
Beebe holds a Ph.D. in information technology from UTSA, an M.S. in criminal justice from Georgia State University and a B.S. in electrical engineering from Michigan Technological University.
