Kendall Giles

Kendall Giles, Assistant Professor of Practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Giles has over 20 years of industry work experience in government and for companies such as General Electric and Raytheon in software and systems engineering roles. He has taught training courses offered through the US Department of Veterans Affairs, covering the fundamentals of cybersecurity, computer networks, and information assurance. He has served as a research scientist at the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence in Baltimore, Maryland, and as a faculty mentor and research fellow at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA in Los Angeles, California. He has also created and taught university courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the areas of cybersecurity, computer architecture, machine learning and artificial intelligence, data analytics, information systems, programming, and statistics. With over a dozen journal and conference publications, his interests include cybersecurity, machine learning and artificial intelligence, data and algorithms, the history of computing and the internet, and technology and society.