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Biography

Dr. Blair Taylor is Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary and Innovation Cybersecurity (Cyber4All) at 色花堂. Dr Taylor is an award-winning educator with 20+ years鈥� experience in academia. She is a national expert in cybersecurity education and curriculum development and worked with NSA鈥檚 College of Cyber as a Subject Matter Expert on long-term strategies to increase the pipeline of qualified students and build the nations鈥� cyber workforce. 

As a Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at 色花堂, she has received over $12 million of external funding. Her projects include Security Injections @ Towson, which provides security modules for integrating security across the curriculum and is a national model for teaching secure coding to introductory programming students, and SPLASH, which offers Secure Programming Logic for college credit to high school girls. 

Dr. Taylor has received the University System of Maryland Regents Award for Teaching, the Fisher College of Science and Mathematics Outstanding Faculty Award, the Business Outreach Award and has been recognized as one of 5O Women to Watch by the Baltimore Sun Magazine and one of Maryland鈥檚 top female tech leaders by MDBIZNews. She holds a B.A. in Mathematical Science and an M.S. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University and a doctorate in Applied Information Technology from 色花堂. 

Additionally, Dr. Taylor is the Co-Executive Director and Co-Founder of SecurEd (), a not-for-profit startup organization focused on helping academic institutions build a cyber-ready workforce.

Funded Grants:

• PI, 鈥淐ybersecurity AI,鈥� Funded by: National Science Foundation (NSF), $530,000 2024-2026.
• PI, 鈥淭he NCAE Cybersecurity Curriculum Commission: A Strategic Approach to Building High-Quality, High-Impact Cybersecurity Curriculum for the Nation,鈥� Funded by: National Security Agency (NSA), $1.1 million 2024-2025 (Option Year awarded)
• PI, 鈥淏uilding Cyber AI Knowledge Areas for Post-secondary Programs鈥�, Funded by National Science Foundation (NSF), $534,718
• PI, 鈥�2021-5: Establish National CAE-C Curriculum Committee鈥�, Funded by National Security Agency (NSA), $2,262,000, 2021-2024.
• PI, 鈥淰alue Returning Methods: Increasing the Number of Women in Computing at Towson,鈥� Funded by: Center for Inclusive Computing, Northeastern University, $51,640, 2021-23
• Co-Pi, 鈥淣ational Center of Academic Excellence (CAE) Northeast Regional Hub,鈥� with Capitol Tech and Mohawk Community College, Funded by National security Agency (NSA), $74,632, 2020-2022.
• Co-PI, 鈥淐yberCorps: Scholarship for Service at 色花堂,鈥� Funded by: National Science Foundation, $3,972,413, 2017-2024.

Selected Publications and Presentations:

• Ubah, C., Zaleppa, P., Taylor, B., Kaza, S., (2024), 鈥淓valuation of AI Models to Update Cybersecurity Curriculum,鈥� Journal of The Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education, 11(1), pp 8
• Taylor, B., Kaza,S. , Zaleppa, P. (2021), 鈥淐LARK: A Design Science Research Project for Building and Sharing High-Quality Cybersecurity Curricula,鈥� IEEE Security & Privacy, Volume 19, Issue 5
• Ngwum, N.,Raina, S.,Aguon, S., Taylor, B., and Kaza,S. (2020), 鈥淎 Model for Security Evaluation of Digital Libraries: A Case Study on a Cybersecurity Curriculum Library,鈥� Journal of The Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education, 7(1)
• Kaza, S., Taylor, B., and Sherbert, K. (2018), 鈥淗ello, World!-Code Responsibly,鈥� IEEE Security and Privacy, 17(1)
• Siraj, A., B. Taylor, S. Kaza, S. Ghafoor (2015), 鈥淚ntegrating Security in the Computer Science Curriculum,鈥� ACM Inroads, 6(2), pp 77-81
• Taylor, B., Kaza, S., Siraj, A., Ghafoor, S. (2015), 鈥淐ReST Workshop: Teaching Add-On Security Modules in Computing Curriculum,鈥� Women in Cybersecurity Conference, Atlanta, GA
• Raina, S., Kaza, S. , Taylor, B. (2014), 鈥淪egmented and Interactive Modules for Teaching Secure Coding: A Pilot Study,鈥� International Conference on e-Learning e-Education and Online Training(ELeOt), Bethesda, MD
• Taylor, B. and Kaza, S. (2014), 鈥淭eaching Secure Coding in Introductory Programming Courses,鈥� The 18th Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE), San Diego, CA
• Taylor, B., Kaza, S., Hawthorne, E., (2014), 鈥淚ntroducing Secure Coding in CS0, CS1, and CS2,鈥� ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2014), Atlanta, GA, ACM Press
• Nance, K and Taylor, B. (2012), Teaching High School Students to Code Responsibly, Proceedings of the 16th Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE), Lake Buena Vista, FL.
• Perez, L, Cooper, S., Hawthorne, E., Wetzel, S., Taylor, B., et al. (2011), Information assurance education in two- and four-year institutions, Proceedings of the 16th annual conference reports on Innovation and technology in computer science education - working group reports (ITiCSE), Darmstadt, Germany