Partners

Current Projects

Joel Aud

Project: Border Management, Trade, and Transport Security Course Curriculum Development

Course Developer

Institution: Lean Tail Labs

Jessica Bolter

Project: Developing a Regional Approach to Managing Migration Flows from the Northern Triangle through Mexico to the United States

Institution: Migration Policy Institute

Marcus A. Boyd, Ph.D.

Project: The Road Less Traveled: Bolstering the Absorptive Capacity of Southern Central American States to Facilitate the Southern Flow of Northern Triangle Immigrants

Institution: National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, University of Maryland

Chris Bronk, Ph.D.

Project: Border Management, Trade, and Transport Security Course Curriculum Development

Course Developer

Institution: University of Houston

Randy Capps, Ph.D.

Project: Developing a Regional Approach to Managing Migration Flows from the Northern Triangle through Mexico to the United States

Complete Project: Venezuela and Nicaragua: Regional Migration Crisis in the Making
Complete Project: Central America's Immigrant and Refugee Crisis: Limiting Unauthorized Migration through the Alliance for Prosperity and Reintegration Efforts

Institution: Migration Policy Institute

Asya Cooley, Ph.D.

Project: Mexican and Northern Triangle Perspectives on Mass Migration: Identifying and Assessing Strategic Narrative Alignment

Institution: Oklahoma State University

Skye Cooley, Ph.D.

Project: Mexican and Northern Triangle Perspectives on Mass Migration: Identifying and Assessing Strategic Narrative Alignment

Institution: Oklahoma State University

Andrew Farrelly

Project: Assessment of Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (CTPAT) Program

CEO and Co-Founder

Institution: CT Strategies

Robert Hinck, Ph.D.

Project: Mexican and Northern Triangle Perspectives on Mass Migration: Identifying and Assessing Strategic Narrative Alignment

Institution: Monmouth College

Sara Kitsch, Ph.D.

Project: Mexican and Northern Triangle Perspectives on Mass Migration: Identifying and Assessing Strategic Narrative Alignment

Institution: Monmouth College

Joe Kolb

Project: Border Management, Trade, and Transport Security Course Curriculum Development

Course Developer

Institution: Southwest Gant Information Center

Katerina Kourentzi, Ph.D.

Project: DNA Assays for Determining Honey Origins

Research Associate Professor

Institution: University of Houston

Barnett S. Koven, Ph.D.

Project: The Road Less Traveled: Bolstering the Absorptive Capacity of Southern Central American States to Facilitate the Southern Flow of Northern Triangle Immigrants

Institution: National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, University of Maryland

Brett Laduzinsky, Ph.D.

Project: Assessment of Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (CTPAT) Program

Institution: CT Strategies

Katy Lindquist, Ph.D.

Project: The Road Less Traveled: Bolstering the Absorptive Capacity of Southern Central American States to Facilitate the Southern Flow of Northern Triangle Immigrants

Institution: National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, University of Maryland

Mayra G. Maldonado

Project: Tactical Mapping of Border Security Impacts: El Paso Sector

Institution: The University of Texas at El Paso

Ronald May

Project: Assessment of Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (CTPAT) Program

Institution: CT Strategies

Christina McDaniel, Ph.D.

Project: Addressing Cross Border E-Commerce Challenges with Emerging Technologies

Institution: The MacroDyn Group

Aniko Sabo, Ph.D.

Project: DNA Assays for Determining Honey Origins

Institution: Baylor College of Medicine

Andrew Selee, Ph.D.

Project: Developing a Regional Approach to Managing Migration Flows from the Northern Triangle through Mexico to the United States

Complete Project: Venezuela and Nicaragua: A Regional Migration Crisis in the Making

Institution: Migration Policy Institute

Weidong "Larry" Shi, Ph.D.

Project: Addressing Cross Border E-Commerce Challenges with Emerging Technologies

Associate Professor

Institution: University of Houston

Ariel Ruiz Soto

Project: Developing a Regional Approach to Managing Migration Flows from the Northern Triangle through Mexico to the United States

Institution: Migration Policy Institute

Andrea Tanco

Project: Developing a Regional Approach to Managing Migration Flows from the Northern Triangle through Mexico to the United States

Institution: Migration Policy Institute

Juan Villa

Project: Measuring Border Wait Time at Land Ports of Entry: Technology Assessment and Data Dissemination

Complete Project: Developing a Concept of Operations for an Innovative System for Measuring Wait Times at Land Ports of Entry

Institution: Texas A&M Transportation Institute

Richard C. Willson, Ph.D.

Project: DNA Assays for Determining Honey Origins

Huffington-Woestemeyer Professor, Professor of Biochemical & Biophysical Sciences

Institution: University of Houston

Detlof von Winterfeldt, Ph.D.

Project: Economic Motivations of Migrants from the Northern Triangle

Institution: USC CREATE

Complete Projects

Leanne Alarid, Ph.D.

Project: Human Trafficking Interdiction at the US-Mexico Border: Victim Histories of Recruitment, Transportation, and Exploitation

Institution: The University of Texas at El Paso

Thirimachos Bourlai, Ph.D.

Project: Unconstrained Face Recognition using Cell Phone Devices: Faces in the Wild

Institution: West Virginia University

Jodi Berger Cardoso, Ph.D.

Project: The Impact of Central American Child and Family Migration on U.S. Communities

Associate Professor of Social Work

Institution: University of Houston

Bojan Cubic, Ph.D.

Project: A Systematic Process for Vulnerability Assessment of Biometric Systems at Borders

Professor and Dean in the College of Computing and Informatics

Institution: UNC Charlotte

Dennis Egan, Ph.D.

Project: Missed Detections: From Data to Actionable Estimates

Assistant Director

Institution: Command, Control, and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis (CCICADA)

Jonathan Eyer, Ph.D.

Project: Economic Motivations of Migrants from the Northern Triangle

Institution: USC CREATE

Harshica Fernando, Ph.D.

Project: Develop Lateral Flow Assay (LFA) Technology Based on Metal Nanoparticles

A DHS Minority Serving Institution Summer Research Team Project

Institution: Prairie View A&M University

Demoz Gebre-Egziabher, Ph.D.

Project: GPS/GNSS and Communication Authentication Standards for RECONS

Institution: University of Minnesota

Gary Hale

Project: Uncovering Human Smuggling Patterns from Guatemala to the U.S.

Institution: Voir Dire International, LLC

David Hansell

Project: Exploring Homeland Security Applications for Unmanned Autonomous Systems at Maritime Ports

Institution: Lantern UAS

Eric Hershberg, Ph.D.

Project: The Impact of Central American Child and Family Migration on U.S. Communities

Institution: American University

Eleftherios Iakovou, Ph.D.

Project: Transforming Trade and Ensuring Global Supply Chain Security with Blockchain

Institution: Texas A&M University

Ioannis Kakadiaris, Ph.D.

Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Professor

Institution: University of Houston

David LeBlang, Ph.D.

Project: Modeling International Migrant Flows: Theory, Evidence and Forecasts

Institution: University of Virginia

Victor Manjarrez, Jr., Ph.D.

Project: Homeland Security Symposium Series

Director, Center for Law and Human Behavior

Institution: The University of Texas at El Paso

Benjamin Melamed, Ph.D.

Project: Modeling Methodology and Simulation of Port-of-Entry Systems

Institution: Rutgers

Dimitris N. Metaxas, Ph.D.

Project: Unconstrained Face Recognition using Cell Phone Devices: Faces in the Wild

Institution: Rutgers

Ioannis Pavlidis, Ph.D.

Institution: University of Houston

Ben Rohrbaugh

Project: Exploring Homeland Security Applications for Unmanned Autonomous Systems at Maritime Ports

Institution: Lantern UAS

Shishir Shah, Ph.D.

Project: Security Technologies Kitchen

Professor

Institution: University of Houston

Robert Shaw

Project: Leveraging U.S. Export Control Reform: New Challenges and Opportunities for U.S. Government Efforts to Counter WMD Proliferation through Enforcement of Export Control

Institution: Middlebury Institute of International Studies

George Thompson

Project: Validating Deterrence Models for Scanning Technologies

Institution: ANSER, Inc.

Luis Torres, Ph.D.

Project: Immigration Workshop

Institution: University of Houston

Nursen Albayrak Zanca, Ph.D.

Project: The Global Terrorism Index: Methodology & Meaning

A DHS Minority Serving Institution Summer Research Team

Institution: University of the Incarnate Word

Current Projects

Complete Projects

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