Masters of Science in Information Security

Faculty Profiles

Dr. Paul Kaiser
Dr. Rami Khasawneh
Dr. Ray Klump

Dr. Paul Kaiser

Paul Kaiser earned a Ph.D. in optimal control theory from the University of Michigan in August 1973. Since that time he has served on the faculty at Lewis University. In addition to teaching, he has also assumed various administrative responsibilities: Dean of Student Services and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Dr. Kaiser has been the recipient of the following university awards:

• Brother Louis DeLaSalle Ministry of Teaching Award
• Lasallian Medallion

Professional and Educational Interests:

• Real Analysis
• Programming Languages: syntax and compilers
• Linux

Education:

• B.S. Mathematics, University of Notre Dame, 1968
• M.S. Mathematics, University of Michigan, 1970
• Ph.D. Mathematics, University of Michigan, 1973
• M.S. Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1987

Dr. Rami Khasawneh

Rami Khasawneh is the Dean of the College of Business and the chair of the department of management information systems. He is an author with one book and over 20 papers in refereed journals. He is the associate editor for the International Management Review Journal. He has been invited by IEEE and ACM to chair many IT conferences and to review hundreds of papers. Currently he is involved in the organization of three international conferences. Khasawneh has over 13 years' experience in the IT field, primarily in the development and implementation of IT strategic plans, IT security plans, IT infrastructure, project management, and e-business. His industry experience includes process reengineering, technical leadership, capacity planning, performance evaluation, design validation, and system analysis. He has managed more than 50 projects for clients including Citibank, Nicor Gas, SBC Ameritech, Tenneco Packaging, United Airlines, EKCO group, Alcatel, Chicago Transit Authority, Universal Studios, Bank One, Resurrection Healthcare System, and Sears.

Education:

• Ph.D Illinois Institute of Technology 1993.
• M.SC Western Michigan University 1989.
• B.SC: Yarmouk University 1987.

Dr. Ray Klump

Ray Klump earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in August, 2000. His dissertation, A Computational Framework for Assessing Voltage Security Using Energy Methods, developed an algorithm for predicting the maximum amount of power an electric utility system can serve before a blackout occurs. From May, 1996, through August, 1998, he worked as General Engineer at Mid-America Interconnected Network in Lombard, IL, where he developed a software platform for calculating maximum power system transfer capabilities and posting these numbers to a secure web site used by marketing and reliability firms. Starting in October, 1997, Dr. Klump began working for PowerWorld Corporation, a software manufacturer based in Champaign, IL. Working first on a part-time basis and then in a full-time capacity, Dr. Klump wrote software for calculating and displaying the conditions of an electric power system in ways that help system operators and engineers understand the system much more easily than they could if they used only tables and graphs. Dr. Klump continues to work part-time as Software Engineer and Senior consultant for PowerWorld, where he is the principle developer of PowerWorld's Retriever product, which displays the real-time measurments of an electric power system as reported by phasor measurement units and SCADA systems.

Dr. Klump began his career at Lewis in August, 2001. He has taught undergraduate courses in C++, Java, software engineering, database design and implementation, artificial intelligence, computer graphics, microcomputer software applications, and college mathematics. Dr. Klump has published 18 papers, mostly in the field of computer applications for power systems. He has consulted, through PowerWorld, for projects with Commonwealth Edison, City Water Light and Power of Springfield, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Bonneville Power Administration, Southern Company, Entergy, Mid-America Interconnected Network, and PJM.

Professional and Educational Interests:

• Electric power systems
• Stability of nonlinear networks
• Numerical methods
• Programming languages
• Scientific visualization
• Object-oriented theory and design
• Security of information systems

Education:

• B.S. Electrical Engineering, UIUC, 1993
• M.S. Electrical Engineering, UIUC, 1995
• Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, UIUC, 2000

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