Invitation to IN PERSON ISACA North Texas Monthly Meeting at Marriott DFW Airport - March

“Algorithy Aversion”
Algorithms have penetrated our personal and professional lives with advanced data analytics, prescriptive recommendations, and predictive forecasts. However, many organizations and individuals remain reluctant to forfeit their decision-making agency and hand over the reins to machines. In this presentation, Dr. Kipp will discuss algorithm aversion, its history, how it manifests in different settings, the outcomes of algorithm aversion, and how to potentially mitigate algorithm aversion’s impact on decision quality.

Speaker: Dr. Peter Kipp, Assistant Professor, G. Brint Ryan College of Business at UNT.

AI Security: An Adaptive System to Enhance Threat Detection and Incident Response

Nowadays, protecting IT systems and their valuable data from cyber attacks requires more advanced and proactive strategies. Conventional systems, relying on manually coded rules and signatures, often fail to detect cyber threats due to the agile and dynamic nature of malware and hacking techniques. To address this problem, Artificial Intelligence (AI) security has been applied to analyze big datasets in real-time to identify behaviors and patterns that may elude traditional rule-based systems. We present an overview of key AI technologies to build adaptive AI security to autonomously respond to potential threats in real-time, assess practical challenges to build the systems, and provide recommendations for production deployments to meet the demands of today’s dynamic threat landscape.

Speaker: Dr. Son Bui, Associate Professor, Marketing and Business Analytics at Texas A&M University-Commerce.

“Topic TBD"

Speaker: Dr. Ming Li, , Associate Professor, Compute Science and Engineering at UNT.

Speaker Bios:

Dr. Peter Kipp - Peter Kipp is an assistant professor of accounting in the G. Brint Ryan College of Business. Dr. Kipp earned his Ph.D. at the University of South Florida, his Master in Professional Accounting from the University of Texas at Austin, and his BBA from Pittsburg State University. His general research interests include AIS and auditing topics with a behavioral and decision making focus. His research received the "Outstanding Research Award" for the 2017 Joint Midyear Meeting of the AIS and SET Sections of the American Accounting Association. Dr. Kipp maintains an active CPA license in the state of Kansas.

Dr. Son Bui: Dr. Son Bui is an Associate Professor in the Marketing and Business Analytics department at Texas A&M University-Commerce. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Memphis and his M.S. and B.S. from Brigham Young University. His research interests include IT startups, security and privacy, artificial intelligence, databases, and IT strategies. He was a recipient of the Texas A&M University-Commerce's Teaching Innovation Award in 2021 and the Augustine "Chuck" Arize Award in 2020 – the highest university honor for junior faculty members. During his tenure, he has received over $350,000 in funding from Texas Higher Education, Bell Flight, and Texas A&M University-Commerce for his research excellence. In 2019, he collaborated with Bell Flights to create the flight simulation for Uber Air Taxi. This is the first AI flight system mimicking the aircraft's actions to weather conditions, night controls, and visibility issues. His work was demonstrated at the 2019 CES conference in Las Vegas, the world's biggest and most innovative consumer conference, and was well-received by many major media outlets.

Dr. Ming Li: Dr. Ming Li is a distinguished scholar in Computer Science and Engineering, currently serving as an Associate Professor at The University of Texas at Arlington. She holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Mississippi State University, an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Sun Yat-sen University.
Her career achievements include recognition on Arlington City's "40 under 40" list and receiving the N2Women Rising Star in Networking and Communications award in 2023, the NSF CAREER Award in 2020, and the Distinguished TPC Member at IEEE INFOCOM in 2020. Dr. Li serves on program committees for conferences such as INFOCOM and on organizing committees for PETRA and ICNP. Additionally, she is an Editorial Board Member for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.