Frank Xu
Professor And The Director Of The MS In Forensic Sciences Cyber Investigations Program
Ilchester, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolFrank Xu is a professor and director of the MS in Forensic Sciences: Cyber Investigations at the University of Baltimore with 12 years of professional experience bridging academia and hands‑on cyber forensics. He combines a Ph.D. with practical systems and automation skills, evidenced by his open-source digital-forensics-lab repo that automates tool provisioning and environment configuration for students and faculty. His work focuses on applying AI to digital forensics, streamlining lab setup through bash-driven DevOps and automation to make reproducible, teachable forensic environments. Based in Ilchester, Maryland, he balances curriculum leadership and research with pragmatic engineering that lowers the barrier to entry for forensic investigations.
12 years of coding experience
MS, MS at Towson UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) at North Dakota State UniversityBS, BS at Southeast Missouri State University
Chinese
Github Skills (15)
system-administration10
automation10
linux10
bash10
automations10
computer-forensics10
scripting9
cybersecurity9
script8
ed255198
install-script8
git7
wine6
zsh5
npm5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
frankwxu/digital-forensics-lab
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
Free hands-on digital forensics labs for students and faculty
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:537 commits, 441 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
Contributions summary:Frank's commits primarily involve the creation and modification of bash scripts for installing various digital forensics tools within a Linux environment. These scripts automate the installation of numerous software packages, including those from repositories, and also handle the configuration of aliases and references for easier tool access. The user demonstrates expertise in system administration and automation by streamlining the setup process for a digital forensics lab, indicating a strong focus on efficient tool provisioning and environment configuration. The scripts install various software packages, git clone code from various source for tools and install them.
hands-onpythonhandsfacultyforensics
frankwxu/Ubalt
Oct 2018 - Aug 2020
Forensics Science Education
Contributions:140 commits, 128 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
securityscienceforensics
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