Matt Hale
Program Director, NebraskaCYBER MATRIX at University of Nebraska at Omaha
Omaha, Nebraska, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Hale is a cybersecurity researcher and academic leader with 15 years of experience building secure web services, mobile apps, and IoT systems. As Associate Professor and Director of the School of Interdisciplinary Informatics at UNO, he leads applied research and the new NebraskaCYBER MATRIX program, launching an AI-enabled SOC and upskilling platform. His PhD work produced formal tools for cloud security certification (Cloud X-UNITY and SecAgreement), and he has a strong track record winning grants to study hybrid mobile attack vectors, wearable security, and phishing prevention. Matt blends formal methods with practical system design, having implemented the CyberTrust testing platform as RESTful services using node.js, express, MongoDB and Ember.js to study trust and phishing behavior. He combines technical depth with pedagogy and outreach, running internship partnerships and cybersecurity STEM events for industry and community impact. Outside work he draws creative parallels between cooking and software engineering, reflecting a pragmatic, systems-oriented curiosity.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at University of TulsaB.S., Mathematics and Computer Science, B.S., Mathematics and Computer Science at The University of Tulsa
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (35)
cybersecurity10
iot-security10
mobile9
iot9
eye-tracker8
shibboleth8
journal7
websocket7
emberjs7
open-access6
consul6
creative-commons6
nginx6
microservices6
docker-network6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
MLHale/wearable-ember
Nov 2014 - Jun 2015
Contributions:21 commits, 2 pushes in 7 months
MLHale/nebraska-gencyber
Jun 2017 - Jul 2021
This repo includes all open source content for the Nebraska GenCyber camp. The 2017 camp theme is IoT Security.
Contributions:163 commits, 8 PRs, 88 pushes in 4 years 1 month
iot-security
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