Dr. Dallas H Snider

Dr. Dallas Snider, a Professor in the Department of Cybersecurity and Information Technology and UWF Vice Provost, received his Ph.D. in Integrated Computing and M.S. in Instrumental Sciences from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He received a B.A. in Physics from Hendrix College. Before joining UWF in 2012 he was a data warehouse developer for Northrop Grumman Information Systems and a database application developer for Acxiom. Snider’s teaching and research interests include data mining, data warehousing, information visualization, and software development. These areas include an application of knowledge discovery techniques for problems involving health, security and energy, dimensional modeling, and improving Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math education. Snider, who has helped raise more than $400,000 for research projects, wrote a book, Creating Reports with SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services. His research -- on such topics as the use of concept maps, knowledge-based systems and, hybrid-fueled rocket plume monitoring-- has been published in The Journal of Defense Software Engineering, International Journal of Advanced Research in Artificial Intelligence, Measurement Science and Technology and elsewhere. He teaches Java Programming, Software Engineering Process, Data Mining and other courses.