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Dr. Kisekka is an assistant professor in the Department of Information Security and Digital Forensics. She earned her doctoral degree from the University at Buffalo鈥檚 School of Management, where she received the 鈥淧hD Student Achievement Award."She is also a recipient of the Pacesetter Award from Argonne National Lab, for her research contributions in Information Security. Dr. Kisekka teaches Security Risk Analysis, Security Policies, and Fraud Detection.

Dr. Kisekka has published her research in high quality information systems journals and has also presented at several conferences and workshops such as the International Conference on Information Systems and the Americas Conference on Information Systems. Her research interests areas are: 1) Information security and privacy, where she studies users鈥� online security behaviors, and employees鈥� security behaviors. 2) Health information technologies, specifically, improving the utility of HITs for patients. 3.) A relatively new research area is communication on social media, specifically, the spread of information and misinformation. Dr. Kisekka employs both qualitative and quantitative methodologies in her research.

Prior to earning a doctoral degree, Dr. Kisekka worked as a software consultant, working on projects for big companies such as Pfizer and Diageo. She has since gained extensive hands-on experience in the area of information security from working at Argonne National Lab, and managing a digital forensics lab at the University at Buffalo. Her work has been recognized outside of academia by news media such as Spotlight 海角社区 and the Albany Business Review.

Thomas Vallario serves as information security and compliance analyst at New York Tech. Vallario joined New York Tech in 2021 and, at that time, brought 18 years of experience in regulatory and corporate compliance across various industries, including the technology and banking sectors. At the university, Vallario focuses his experience and knowledge on the growing field of information security and serves as part of a team tasked with developing and strengthening all aspects of the university's information security program. He is responsible for ensuring compliance with various information security-related regulatory requirements by way of university policies, procedures, and processes. One of his many goals includes increasing awareness and education among the New York Tech community on various information security-related initiatives and best practices. In turn, these efforts aim to help put New York Tech in the best position possible to defend against constantly evolving cyber threats.
Vallario holds an M.B.A. in Corporate Finance from Dowling College and a Bachelor of Science in Finance from St. John's University.

Kirkpatrick's interests revolve around one central question: What is the most effective way to teach students how to build secure and robust computer systems that will benefit society? Answering this question requires examining complex technical issues with the help of insights from cognitive psychology, learning sciences, and ethics. He also believes it is vital for computer scientists to play an active role in addressing the societal impacts of their work and broadening participation in computing. 
Within the technical domain of computer science, his research experience has focused on computer system security, contextual access control, operating systems & virtualization, and embedded systems. All of these areas hold great promise for improving the human experience, but they also introduce significant risks. When teaching and discussing these subjects, Kirkpatrick emphasizes the need for critical analysis that weighs the benefits and costs of these technologies. 
Kirkpatrick serves as an officer of the Committee on Professional Ethics (COPE) for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the computer science professional society with over 100,000 members worldwide. In this role, he helped to rewrite the ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct in 2018, has created (and continues to create) supporting materials to help computer scientists learn how to apply these principles, and has presented workshops on integrating ethics into the computer science classroom. He also serves as a member of the Plagiarism & Ethics Committee for the ACM Publications Board. 
Kirkpatrick received a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science at Indiana University, a master's degree in computer science and engineering at Michigan State University and a doctorate in computer science at Purdue University.