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Wang Named Inaugural Holder of TSYS Professorship

TSYS School professor Shuangbao (Paul) Wang has been named the inaugural holder of the newly-established TSYS Endowed Chair in Cybersecurity.  The appointment of Wang to this prestigious position was announced by Turner College Dean Linda Hadley on October 30, 2017, during the “grand opening” of the Turner College’s TSYS Center for Cybersecurity.  Wang joined the Turner College in August of 2016 from the University of Maryland’s University College, where he assisted in delivering the institution’s graduate program in cybersecurity.  Wang earned a PhD in computer science in 2004 from George Mason University, and he was the 2004 recipient of the Link Foundation Advanced Simulation and Training Award.  The recipient of more than $2 million in grant funding, Wang’s recent research appears in the Journal of Learning Analytics, Journal for the Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education, and Sensors & Transducers.  Prior to joining the TSYS faculty, Wang’s research appeared in Computerized Medical Imaging & Graphics and Computing in Science & Engineering.  Wang’s appointment marks the sixth endowed faculty position in the Turner College.  The others are the Bill Heard Chair of Business Administration (est. 1986), the Edwin and Florette Rothschild Chair of Business Administration and Leadership (est. 1998), the Sarah Turner Butler Distinguished University Chair of Business and Finance (est. 2003), the Ray and Evelyn Crowley Distinguished Chair of Entrepreneurship (est. 2005), and the Violet Litchfield and Thomas Bryant Buck, Jr. Faculty Chair in Real Estate (est. 2008).  Wang will hold the new TSYS endowed professorship through May of 2019.

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