Idongesit O Mkpong-Ruffin

Commons

Tuesday: 4:15pm. - 5:15pm
Friday: 8:30am - 9:30am
or by appointment

CIS 4360E Introduction to Computer Security •  Online
COP 3104C Fundamentals of Programming • Tu. Th. - 12:30pm - 2:30pm
CAP 5765 Datamining • Tu. Th. 2:45pm - 4:00pm

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Dr. Idongesit Mkpong-Ruffin is an associate professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU), where she also serves as the Director of the Center of Cyber Security and Coordinator for the B.S. Cybersecurity degree program. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science & Software Engineering from Auburn University, with a focus on quantitative software risk assessment models. She is the Principal Investigator on multiple National Science Foundation (NSF) grants aimed at advancing AI and cybersecurity research.

Drawing on more than a decade of academic leadership, Dr. Mkpong-Ruffin has served as Chair of both the Computer Science Department at Faulkner University and the Computer and Information Sciences Department at FAMU. As a dedicated educator, she teaches a wide range of courses, from fundamental programming to emerging areas of computing. She also actively mentors both graduate and undergraduate students, guiding their research and preparing the next generation of computing professionals.

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• Agentic AI
• AI and Cybersecurity
• Software Security
• Computer Science Education

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• Associate Professor • 2019 - Present
  Florida A&M University (FAMU), Tallahassee, FL
• Coordinator, B.S. Cybersecurity degree • 2021 – Present
  Florida A&M University (FAMU), Tallahassee, FL
• Director, FAMU Center of Cyber Security • 2019 – Present
  Florida A&M University (FAMU), Tallahassee, FL
• Chair, Computer & Information Sciences Department • 2019 – 2021
  Florida A&M University (FAMU), Tallahassee, FL
• Professor • 2012 - 2019
  Faulkner University, Montgomery, AL
• Associate Professor • 2007 - 2012
  Faulkner University, Montgomery, AL
• Chair, Computer Science Department •  2007 - 2018
  Faulkner University, Montgomery, AL
• Instructor •  2002- 2004
  Troy University, Montgomery, AL
• Instructor •  1998 - 2002
  Faulkner University, Montgomery, AL
• Adjunct Instructor • 1992 - 1996
  Gadsden State Community College, Gadsden, AL

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GRANTS

• PI: Collaborative Research: CUE-T:HBCU Learning Community-based Intervention in Computing
• PI: Collaborative Research: CISE-MSI: RPEP: SaTC: HBCU Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity (AI-CyS ) Research Partnership

PUBLICATIONS

• Matthews, Lauren, Mkpong-Ruffin, Idongesit, Evan, Deidre “Challenges to Video Authentication: A Literature Review” – The Association of Computer Science Departments at Minority Institutions (ADMI ) April 2024
• Johnson, Alaisha, Mkpong-Ruffin, Idongesit, Evan, Deidre “Deepfake Detection Algorithms: A Literature Review” – The Association of Computer Science Departments at Minority Institutions (ADMI ) April 2024
• Sayafazad, Shahrzad, Chi, Hongmei, Ho, Shuyuan, Mkpong-Ruffin, Idongesit, “Enhancing Object Detection in YouTube Thumbnails Forensics with YOLOv4 ” IEEE BigData 2023, Dec, 2023
• Hunt, Darrien, Boonthum-Denecke, Chutima, Mkpong-Ruffin, Idongesit, “Impact of Adversarial Patches on Object Detection with YOLOv7”, ADMI The Symposium on Computing at Minority Institutions, Symposium (April 2023)
• Hannis, Melissa, Mkpong-Ruffin, Idongesit, Hamilton, Drew, Student Educational Learning Experience Through Cooperative Research, National Cyber Summit – Cybersecurity 2021: Pivot, Respond, Inoculate CS-Proceedings (October 2021)
• Tasnim Samia, Ahmon Ferguson, Brooke Gordon, Chad Gordon, Kishwar Ahmed, Idongesit Mkpong-Ruffin, A SMART ENVIRONMENT MONITORING APPLICATION FOR MOBILE INTERNET OF THINGS ", in 27th International Conference on Systems Engineering (ICSEng), USA, Dec 2020.

PRESENTATIONS

•  (Panelist) 2024 Proposal Development Workshop – Awardee Success Stories ASEE CISE, October 2024
•  (Research Presentation) Matthews, Lauren, Mkpong-Ruffin, Idongesit “The Use of Mirroring to Reduce Data Bias” TechNet Augusta 2024: Cyber Research Showcase – August 2024.
  • (Poster Presentation) Mkpong-Ruffin, Idongesit, Boonthum-Denecke, Chutima, Lin, Yuewei “HBCU Undergraduate Research Collaboration in AI-CyS : Video Authentication, DeepFake and Dataset Bias” ASEE CISE Research Expansion Grantees Meeting, May 2024
•  (Poster Presentation) Allen, Clement, Mkpong-Ruffin, Idongesit, “AI-Assisted Software Engineering Capstone Course” - – The Association of Computer Science Departments at Minority Institutions (ADMI ) April 2024
•  (Poster Presentation) Thomas, Terrelle, Mkpong-Ruffin, Idongesit, Boonthum-Denecke “Preventing Adversarial Attacks” - – The Association of Computer Science Departments at Minority Institutions (ADMI ) April 2024
•  (Invited Talk) Mkpong-Ruffin, Idongesit “Describing the student in competency statements”, CAE: CoP – Competency Corner, February 2024
•  (Poster Presentation) Hunt, Darrien, Boonthum-Denecke, Chutima, Mkpong-Ruffin, Idongesit, “Impact of Adversarial Patches on Object Detection with YOLOv7” - CAE in Cybersecurity Community Symposium, June 2023
•  Mkpong-Ruffin, Idongesit, Boonthum-Denecke, Chutima, “A Collaborative Case Study: Increasing Undergraduate Research in Cybersecurity at HBCUs” - CAE in Cybersecurity Community Symposium, June 2023
•  (Poster Presentation) Sayyafzadeh, Shahrzad, Mkpong-Ruffin, Idongesit, Boonthum-Denecke, “Mitigating the Impact of Object Overlapping on YOLOv4 Object Detection” - CAE in Cybersecurity Community Symposium, June 2023
•  (Poster Presentation) Hunt, Darrien, Boonthum-Denecke, Chutima, Mkpong-Ruffin, Idongesit, “Impact of Adversarial Patches on Object Detection with YOLOv7” - CAE in Cybersecurity Community Symposium, June 2023
•  (Workshop presentation) Hannis, Melissa, Mkpong-Ruffin, Idongesit, “CMMC Assessment using CSET”, National Cyber Security Summit – Cybersecurity 2022: Cyber Innovation for Digital Acceleration Conference 2022 – November 2022
• Hannis, Melissa, Mkpong-Ruffin, Idongesit, “Student Educational Learning Experience Through Cooperative Research”, National Cyber Summit – Cybersecurity 2021: Pivot, Respond, Inoculate Conference 2021 – November 2021
•  (Poster Presentation) Mkpong-Ruffin, I., “Quantitative Software Risk As
  

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• CAP 5765 – Datamining
• CEN 5079 – Software Security
• CIS 5370 – Computer Security
• CIS 4360 - Introduction to Computer Security
• CAP 3770 – Introduction to Data Mining
• COP 3366 – Introduction to C#
• COP 3366E - Introduction to C# (Asynchronous online)
• COP 4365 – Advanced C#
• COP 3014C – Fundamentals of Programming C++
• COP 3014CE - Fundamentals of Programming C++ (Asynchronous – online)
• CIS 4942 – Internship
• CGS 2060 – Computer Literacy