{"id":2691,"date":"2019-05-11T12:21:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T18:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/?p=2691"},"modified":"2026-06-01T15:59:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T21:59:19","slug":"samer-khamaiseh-ph-d-candidate-in-cyber-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/2019\/05\/11\/samer-khamaiseh-ph-d-candidate-in-cyber-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Samer Khamaiseh \u2013 Ph.D. Candidate in Cyber Security"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/981\/2020\/04\/Samer-Khamaiseh-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"Samer Khamaiseh\" class=\"wp-image-2291\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Becoming a professor at a university has been my dream since I started working as a Cybersecurity specialist after my undergraduate degree. I realized that if I could teach my students the tools and techniques that I used on the job every day, then they would have a head start right out of college.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I enrolled at Boise State University as a master\u2019s student in Computer Science. Five years after coming to Boise State University, I am now preparing to defend my dissertation to earn my Ph.D. in Cybersecurity. I selected the computing Ph.D. program at Boise State University since it provides substantial resources ranging from distinguished professors to the funding resources that help students engage in cutting-edge research. My research focuses on solving many challenging security issues in Software-Defined Networking. Looking back, my favorite part of my Ph.D. journey has been sharing my research with others \u2013 in the classroom, and at international conferences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Becoming a professor at a university has been my dream since I started working as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3403,"featured_media":2291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-testimonials"],"acf":[],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/981\/2020\/04\/Samer-Khamaiseh-2-1-819x1024.jpg","author_name":"chrismurphy9","cats":["Testimonials"],"featured_caption":"Computing PhD Outdoor Portraits, Emma Thompson Photo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12824,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions\/12824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}