Over the past decades Prof. Park has been involved with theoretical/practical research and education in information and systems security. He is Syracuse University’s Principal Point of Contact (POC) – both for Education and Research, respectively – at the Center of Academic Excellence (CAE) in Information Assurance (IA), which is designated by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) at the university. He is also the Principal Investigator (PI) for the Department of Defense (DoD) Information Assurance Scholarship Program (IASP) at Syracuse University. Since he joined the School of Information Studies (iSchool) at Syracuse University in 2002, he has been awarded numerous research and education grants in information and systems security. He has been the lead faculty member in developing the security curriculum for the iSchool, including the Certificate of Advanced Study (CAS) in Information Security Management (ISM) in Information Security Management (ISM). Currently, he is the director of the CAS ISM program. He was nominated for the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2004) as a young scientist in computer science (38 past Sloan Fellows have become Nobel Laureates). He has been serving as a key contributor to the high-technology economy of New York State, collaborating with the New York State Center for Advanced Technology in Computer Applications and Software Engineering (CASE). He served as an invited review panelist for the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) on Computer Science and the Trustworthy Computing (TC) Program. He completed his doctorate in the area of information security at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, in 1999. Before he joined the iSchool, he worked for the Center for High Assurance Computer Systems (CHACS) at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Washington, D.C. During his sabbatical (Fall 2011 – present), he focuses on Security and Privacy Enhancements in Cloud Computing, sponsored by the US National Research Council (NRC), National Academies.