Johnson Kinyua

Associate Teaching Professor

E371 Westgate Building
288 Burrowes Road
University Park, PA 16802

Email jdk450@psu.edu
Phone 814-865-4570

Areas of Expertise

Cybersecurity
Application of AI/ML in the Financial Domain
Application of AI/ML in Wildlife Conservation
Multi-Agent Systems
Building Secure Software Systems

Education

Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Cambridge, 1991
M.S., Digital Communications, University of Kent at Canterbury, 1983
B.S., Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University College London, 1981

Dr. Kinyua received a B.S. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from University College London in the United Kingdom, an M.S. in digital communications from the University of Kent, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Cambridge. He has many years of experience in higher education. He served as departmental chair for six years and as a dean for three years at different universities. He is widely experienced in teaching courses in different areas of computer science and information systems and published widely in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences. He has presented research papers at numerous peer-reviewed international conferences around the world.

In his current role as an educator, Dr. Kinyua teaches courses in cybersecurity, enterprise integration, enterprise analytics, software engineering, database management systems, object-oriented programming in Java/C++/Python, and distributed database systems. His current research work is in the following areas: the applications of artificial intelligence/machine learning in cybersecurity; developing and applying deep learning natural language models for financial markets using data from social media platforms, such as Twitter and Reddit; applying different anomaly detection techniques in the health care insurance sector; and applying data science techniques to analyze human-wildlife conflict (HWC) data, and land use data to improve wildlife conservation initiatives.

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