Dr. Matthew HaleSecurity · AI · Learning · Workforce DevelopmentContact ↗Research portfolio
A working index of applied cybersecurity research, educational programs, software, and scholarship.
MATRIX is my current flagship. The remaining portfolio spans workforce development, human-centered security, systems assurance, and computing education.
A Security Operations Center, residency-style Intern Academy, and intelligent cyber range for Nebraska.
Using evidence and coordinated faculty work to broaden participation and improve student retention at UNO.
Co-PI
Supporting cybersecurity students who commit their expertise to public service.
Co-PI & student adviser
Open, hands-on cybersecurity learning for students and educators.
PI
Two systems-engineering-aligned courses for technical and managerial cybersecurity professionals.
PI on UNO subcontract
Understanding deception to design better defenses.
PI
Real-time emergency communication for hazardous-material incidents.
Co-PI
Translating open-source and software-engineering practice into the nuclear certification space.
PI on UNO subcontract
Studying how hospitals can safely update high-value clinical systems without disrupting care.
Co-PI
Making multi-component wearable security visible and testable.
PI
Building authentic cybersecurity research experiences into capstone-like courses.
PI on UNO subcontract
Research and technical expertise translated into an oncology intelligence company and its first clinical-development product.
Full startup overview →Separate modalities. One clinically meaningful picture.
ActiveCompany
A scientific and product company connecting radiological imaging, digital pathology, biomarkers, machine learning, and clinical outcomes to uncover clinically meaningful cancer signals.
My role / Co-founder · enterprise software architect · cybersecurity lead
ActiveProduct
A clinical-development decision-support product combining pancreatic CT review with AI-supported macrovascular invasion assessment for Phase 2 and Phase 3 cancer trial teams.
My role / Co-founder · product architecture and cybersecurity
Selected software, course materials, and research infrastructure.
A playground for conducting and studying multi-component wearable penetration tests.
Cybersecurity learning modules developed for K–12 students and educators.
WebSocket middleware for time-synchronous eye-tracker data in behavioral studies.
Course content for Secure Web Application Development at UNO.
Materials supporting UNO’s cybersecurity capstone experience.
Backend API and front-end application for Gene Ontology enrichment analysis.
The full publication list.
Harris, M. A., Hale, M. L., & Toh, C. A. Towards an integrative approach for designing for cybersecurity in systems engineering. Proceedings of the Design Society, 5, 3161–3170.
↗Ahuja, V., Rosser, H., Grover, A., & Hale, M. What’s hot and what’s not: Mapping consensus in IS research with citizen science. Big XII+ MIS Research Symposium.
↗Rosser, H., Mayor, M., Stemmler, A., Ahuja, V., Grover, A., & Hale, M. Phish Finders: Crowd-powered RE for anti-phishing training tools. IEEE Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops.
↗Ahuja, V. K., Rosser, H. K., Grover, A., & Hale, M. Phish Finders: Improving cybersecurity training tools using citizen science. ICIS Proceedings.
↗Medcalf, S., Hale, M. L., Achutan, C., Yoder, A. M., Fruhling, A., & Shearer, S. W. Requirements gathering through focus groups for a real-time emergency communication system for HAZMAT incidents (REACH). Journal of Public Health Issues and Practices, 5(2), 188.
↗Lumbard, K., Wethor, G., Goggins, S., Buhman, A., Hale, M., & Germonprez, M. Welcome? Investigating the reception of new contributors to organizational-communal open source software projects. 26th Americas Conference on Information Systems.
↗Wethor, G., & Hale, M. L. StudySandboxx: An encapsulation tool for scraping, sandboxing, and preparing web content for HCI studies without sacrificing interactivity. Journal of Open Research Software.
↗Hale, M. L. Eyestream: An open WebSocket-based middleware for serializing and streaming eye tracker event data from Gazepoint GP3 HD research hardware. Journal of Open Source Software, 4(40), 1620.
↗Hale, M. L., Thapa, I., & Ghersi, D. FunSet: An open-source software and web server for performing and displaying Gene Ontology enrichment analysis. BMC Bioinformatics.
↗Hale, M. L., Lotfy, K., Gamble, R. F., Walter, C., & Lin, J. Developing a platform to evaluate the security of wearable devices. Digital Communications and Networks.
↗Roth, G. A., Mahoney, W. R., & Hale, M. L. Critical infrastructure: You get what you pay for. Journal of Information Warfare.
↗Shrestha, I., & Hale, M. L. Detecting dynamic security threats in multi-component IoT systems. 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
↗Hefley, M., Wethor, G., & Hale, M. L. Multimodal data fusion and behavioral analysis tooling for exploring trust, trust-propensity, and phishing victimization in online environments. 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
↗Hale, M. L., & Gamble, R. Semantic hierarchies for extracting, modeling, and connecting compliance requirements from regulatory information security control standards. Requirements Engineering, 1–38.
↗Hale, M. L., Walter, C., Lin, J., & Gamble, R. F. A priori prediction of phishing victimization based on structural content factors. International Journal of Services Computing, 5(1), 1–13.
↗Lotfy, K., & Hale, M. L. SecuWear: Assessing pairing and data exchange mechanism security in the wearable Internet of Things. 5th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Services.
↗Marshall, A., Gamble, R. F., & Hale, M. L. Outcomes of emotional content from agile team forum posts. ACM International Workshop on Emotion Awareness in Software Engineering at ICSE.
↗Walter, C., Hale, M. L., & Gamble, R. Imposing security awareness on wearables. ACM International Workshop on Software Engineering for Smart Cyber-Physical Systems at ICSE.
↗Hale, M. L., Ellis, D., Gamble, R., Walter, C., & Lin, J. SecuWear: An open source, multi-component hardware/software platform for exploring wearable security. 4th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Services.
↗Hale, M. L., Gamble, R., Hale, J., Haney, M., Walter, C., & Lin, J. Measuring the potential for victimization in malicious content. 22nd IEEE International Conference on Web Services.
↗Hale, M. L., & Hanson, S. A testbed and process for analyzing attack vectors and vulnerabilities in hybrid mobile apps connected to RESTful web services. 11th IEEE World Congress on Services Visionary Track on Security and Privacy.
↗Hale, M. L., Gamble, R., & Gamble, P. CyberPhishing: A game-based platform for phishing awareness testing. 48th IEEE Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
↗Hale, M. L., & Gamble, R. Structuring mobile cloud SLAs for matching security controls based on a compliance vocabulary. In Smartphone Security and Secure Mobile Cloud Computing. Springer.
↗Hale, M. L., & Gamble, R. Toward increasing awareness of suspicious content through game play. 10th IEEE World Congress on Services.
↗Gamble, R., & Hale, M. L. Assessing individual performance in agile undergraduate software engineering teams. 42nd IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference.
↗Hale, M. L., Gamble, M. T., & Gamble, R. F. A design and verification framework for service composition in the cloud. 9th IEEE World Congress on Services, 317–324.
↗Hale, M. L., & Gamble, R. F. Building a compliance vocabulary to embed security controls in cloud SLAs. 9th IEEE World Congress on Services, 118–125.
↗Hale, M. L., & Gamble, R. F. Risk propagation of security SLAs in the cloud. IEEE GLOBECOM Workshop on Management and Security Technologies for Cloud Computing.
↗Hale, M. L., & Gamble, R. F. SecAgreement: Advancing security risk calculations in cloud services. 8th IEEE World Congress on Services, 133–140.
↗Hale, M. L., Gamble, R. F., Wilson, K., & Narayan, A. Collaborative learning in software engineering teams. 17th Americas Conference on Information Systems.
↗Gamble, M. T., Gamble, R. F., & Hale, M. L. Security policy foundations in context UNITY. 7th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Secure Systems, 8–14.
↗Hale, M. L., Jorgenson, N., & Gamble, R. F. Analyzing the role of tags as lightweight traceability links. 6th International Workshop on Traceability in Emerging Forms of Software Engineering at ICSE, 71–74.
↗Jorgenson, N., Hale, M. L., & Gamble, R. F. SEREBRO: Facilitating student project team collaboration. 33rd ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, 1019–1021.
↗Hale, M. L., Jorgenson, N., & Gamble, R. F. Predicting individual performance in student project teams. 24th IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, 11–20.
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