Shuyuan Mary Ho, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the iSchool who is committed to expansive and novel research in trusted human-computer interactions and cybersecurity. Dr. Ho’s research incorporates the social psychology behind trust and attribution with regards to online communication environments. Dr. Ho has been hard at work expanding the knowledge and data we have on these subject matters through written articles and conducted experiments, and was recently awarded funding from the Florida Center for Cybersecurity.
The Florida Center for Cybersecurity supports the State University Systems of Florida in their efforts to innovate and produce cybersecurity solutions. This year, Dr. Ho was awarded a grant to work on her project “Capture-the-Flag (CTF) Scenario-based Cybersecurity Exercises Development,” which aims to increase the number of hands-on exercise modules that teach students core concepts in human vulnerabilities, human-computer interaction, cyber-defense, and cloud forensics to prepare them for education and training in cybersecurity. This will benefit both students and faculty by preparing them for future advances in the field.
Dr. Ho has also been working on scholarly works covering cloud forensics. One of her articles, titled “Following the breadcrumbs: Timestamp pattern identification for cloud forensics,” explores the challenges of file interactions in the cloud environment, and was recently published in Digital Investigation this past March. In this study, Dr. Ho exhibits the efficiency of pattern identification for digital forensics across cloud technologies and systems.
Another article by Dr. Ho titled “Trust or consequences? Causal effects of perceived risk and subjective norms on cloud technology adoption” was published by Computers & Security this past September. This article, first-authored by Dr. Ho, investigates trust intention and perceived risks regarding cloud technology.
Dr. Ho is using her interests and unique experimental tactics to not only discover, but communicate knowledge in her findings. She is passionate to bring her research into the classroom and is finding ways to innovate and grow the educational structure.
This summer, Dr. Ho will be running a series of online workshops on socio-technical cybersecurity research for students that are interested in becoming PhD candidates at FSU. You may contact Dr. Ho at smho@fsu.edu for more information.