Charles Kamhoua M.A. ’08, Ph.D. ’11, an alumnus from FIU’s Faculty of Engineering and Computing, just lately gained the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE-USA) Harry Diamond Memorial Award. The consideration acknowledges U.S. authorities people “for contribution and management within the space of blockchain and recreation principle for cybersecurity whereas in U.S. authorities service.”
Kamhoua is at present a senior electronics engineer on the U.S. Military Fight Capabilities Growth Command’s Military Analysis Laboratory. Kamhoua earned a bachelor’s in electronics from the College of Douala in Cameroon, a rustic in west-central Africa. He acquired his grasp’s diploma in telecommunication and networking and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, each from FIU.
His dissertation work, which was carried out below the supervision of Niki Pissinou — professor and director of the Telecommunications and Data Know-how Institute — targeted on “Modeling Safety and Cooperation in Wi-fi Networks Utilizing Recreation Idea.”
“I’m humbled to obtain this necessary technical recognition,” Kamhoua stated concerning the latest award. “I by no means envisioned I’d come this far once I was educating college in Cameroon, however alternatives are there if you happen to work laborious and search them out.”
He makes a speciality of blockchain and recreation principle for cybersecurity and cyber-deception. Since graduating from FIU in 2011, Kamhoua has been a prolific researcher, having authored or co-authored greater than 250 technical papers, 5 of which acquired finest paper awards. He has additionally authored or edited 4 books associated to community safety and holds three U.S. patents, with a number of extra below overview.
“Dr. Kamhoua’s analysis report in blockchain and recreation principle for cybersecurity is exemplary,” stated Sachin Shetty, professor at Outdated Dominion College, who has collaborated on a number of initiatives with Kamhoua. “His management and partnership with trade and academia has resulted in options that handle complicated cybersecurity challenges within the battlefield and industrial sector.”
Together with an excellent profession in analysis, Kamhoua has acquired recognition from all kinds {of professional}, civil and governmental organizations. He has been a visiting researcher at Harvard and Oxford universities and acquired consideration and accolades from the White Home, U.S. Congress and the Pentagon for his contributions. He’s the recipient of the 2020 Sigma Xi Younger Investigator Award for excellent management and contribution to recreation principle utilized to cybersecurity and the 2019 U.S. Military Civilian Service Commendation Medal.
In 2019, Kamhoua acquired the Federal 100-FCW annual award, which is given to people which have had an distinctive impression on the federal authorities’s IT efforts and the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Large Information Finest Journal Paper Award. In 2018, he was granted a Fulbright Senior Specialist Fellowship, and the yr prior, he acquired the 2017 Air Pressure Analysis Laboratory Data Directorate Primary Analysis Award “for excellent achievements in fundamental analysis.”
Kamhoua can also be the recipient of the Fred I. Diamond Award for the most effective paper printed at AFRL’s Data Directorate, the 2016 FIU Charles E. Perry Younger Alumni Visionary Award, the 2015 Black Engineer of the 12 months Award (BEYA), and the 2015 NSBE Golden Torch Award—Pioneer of the 12 months.
“None of those achievements would have been doable with out the training I acquired at FIU and the assist and encouragement I acquired from school, particularly my mentor, Dr. Niki Pissinou,” Kamhoua concluded.
