Kato Mivule, D.Sc., is a researcher, currently as a National Research Council (NRC) Post Doctoral Research Associate, at the Air Force Institute of Technology. His research interests include data privacy, cybersecurity, and data analytics.    KATO MIVULE'S PUBLICATIONS: Kato Mivule and Blake Anderson, "A study of usability-aware network trace anonymization," in Science and Information Conference (SAI), 2015, IEEE, pp.1293-1304, 28-30 July 2015,  doi: 10.1109/SAI.2015.7237310 [http://tiny.cc/igfu3x].   Kato Mivule, “A Codon Frequency Obfuscation Heuristic for Raw Genomic Data Privacy”, Book Chapter, Emerging Trends in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, and Systems Biology: Algorithms and Software Tools,  Arabnia and Nam Tran (Eds), Morgan Kaufmann, 2015, Pages 603-619, ISBN 9780128026465 [http://tiny.cc/89eu3x].   Kato Mivule, “Modeling Data Privacy in Africa”, Book Chapter, Information Communication Technology (ICT) Integration to Educational Curricula: A New Direction for Africa, Nwokeafor (Ed), University Press of America, 2015, Pages 154-171, ISBN 9780761865377 [http://tiny.cc/zxfu3x].   Kato Mivule, "An Investigation of Data Privacy and Utility Using Machine Learning as a Gauge", D.Sc. Dissertation, Computer Science Dept., Bowie State University. 2014: 262 pages; 3619387. [http://tiny.cc/lpgu3x]   Kato Mivule, “A Study of Privatized Synthetic Data Generation Using Discrete Cosine Transforms” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA) 5(11), 2014. [http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051107]   Kato Mivule and Claude Turner, "Applying Moving Average Filtering for Non-interactive Differential Privacy Settings", Procedia Computer Science, Volume 36, ISSN: 1877-0509, 2014, Pages 409-415. DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2014.09.013 [http://tiny.cc/ntgu3x]    Kato Mivule, “Towards Agent-based Data Privacy Engineering”, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications – COGNITIVE 2014, Pages 5-12, 2014, Venice, Italy [http://tiny.cc/9wgu3x]   Kato Mivule and Claude Turner, "A Review of Privacy Essentials for Confidential Mobile Data Transactions", International Journal of Computer Science and Mobile Computing, ICMIC13, December- 2013, pg. 36-43, Trivandrum, Kerala, India   Kato Mivule, Claude Turner, "A Comparative Analysis of Data Privacy and Utility Parameter Adjustment, Using Machine Learning Classification as a Gauge", Procedia Computer Science, Volume 20, 2013, Pages 414-419, Baltimore MD, USA   Kato Mivule and Claude Turner, “An Investigation of Data Privacy and Utility Preservation Using KNN Classification as a Gauge”, International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE 2013), July 22-25, Pages 203-204, Las Vegas, NV, USA   Kato Mivule, Darsana Josyula, and Claude Turner, “Data Privacy Preservation in Multi-Agent Learning Systems”, The Fifth International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications – COGNITIVE 2013, May 27 - June 1, 2013, Valencia, Spain.   Kato Mivule, Claude Turner, Soo-Yeon Ji, "Towards A Differential Privacy and Utility Preserving Machine Learning Classifier", Procedia Computer Science (Complex Adaptive Systems), 2012, Pages 176-181, Washington DC, USA.   Kato Mivule, Stephen Otunba, Tattwamasi Tripathy, Sharad and Sharma, "Implementation of Data Privacy and Security in an Online Student Health Records System", Proceedings at the ISCA 21th Int Conf on Software Engineering and Data Engineering (SEDE-2012), Pages 143-148, Los Angeles, CA, USA   Kato Mivule, "Utilizing Noise Addition for Data Privacy, an Overview", Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE 2012), Pages 65-71, Las Vegas, NV, USA.   Kato Mivule, Claude Turner, "Applying Data Privacy Techniques on Published Data in Uganda", Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government (EEE 2012), Pages 110-115, Las Vegas, NV, USA.   Kato Mivule and Claude Turner, “SIED, A Data Privacy Engineering Framework”, Abstracts, Emerging Researchers National Conference in STEM (ERN 2014), Page A239, ISBN 978-0-87168-757-9, Feb 20-22, 2014, Washington DC, USA.   Kato Mivule and Claude Turner, “An Investigation of Data Privacy and Utility Using Machine Learning as a Gauge”, Abstracts, Doctoral Consortium Presentation, Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference, TAPIA 2014, Seattle, Washington, USA, February 5-8, 2014.   Kato Mivule, "A Codon Frequency Obfuscation Heuristic for Raw Genomic Data Privacy." CoRR abs/1405.5410 (2014), arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.5410   PRESENTATIONS Kato Mivule, “An investigation of Data Privacy and Utility Using Machine Learning as a Gauge”, Successful Dissertation Defense, at Bowie State University, Graduate School, April 17, 2014.   Kato Mivule and Claude Turner, “SIED, A Data Privacy Engineering Framework”, Abstracts, Emerging Researchers National Conference in STEM (ERN 2014), Page A239, ISBN 978-0-87168-757-9, Feb 20-22, 2014, Washington DC, USA. [BEST ORAL PRESENTATION AWARD ]   Kato Mivule and Claude Turner, “An Investigation of Data Privacy and Utility Using Machine Learning as a Gauge”, Doctoral Consortium Presentation, Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference, TAPIA 2014, Seattle, Washington, USA, February 5-8, 2014.     Kato Mivule and Claude Turner, "A Review of Privacy Essentials for Confidential Mobile Data Transactions", In the Proceedings of the International Conference on “Mobility in Computing”- ICMiC13, Dec 17-18, 2013, Trivandrum, Kerala, India.   Kato Mivule, “An Investigation of Data privacy and Utility Preservation Using Multiple Machine Learning Classifiers as a Gauge”, Poster Presentation, 2013 National Laboratories Professional Development Workshop for Underrepresented Participants, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, June 13-14, 2013, Oak Ridge, TN, USA.   Kato Mivule, “An Investigation of Data privacy and Utility Preservation Using Multiple Machine Learning Classifiers as a Gauge”, Doctoral Proposal Defense, Computer Science Dept., Bowie State University, April, 16th 2013, Bowie, MD, USA.   Kato Mivule and Claude Turner, “An Investigation of Data Privacy and Utility using Machine Learning Classifiers as a Gauge”, Poster Presentation, 2013 6th Annual Bowie State University Grants Expo and Research Day, Bowie State University, Bowie, Maryland, USA, April 10, 2013.   Kato Mivule, “An Investigation of Data privacy and Utility Preservation Using Multiple Machine Learning Classifiers as a Gauge”, Spring 2013 Seminar Series - Bowie State University Computer Science Department, April 9th 2013, Bowie, MD, 2013.   Kato Mivule and Claude Turner, “Investigating Differential Privacy and Utility in Machine Learning Classifiers”, Poster and Doctoral Consortium Presentation, Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference, TAPIA 2013, Washington DC, USA, February 7 - 10, 2013   Kato Mivule, Claude Turner, and Soo-Yeon Ji, “Towards A Differential Privacy Preserving Utility Machine Learning Classifier”, Poster Presentation, 2012 5th Annual Bowie State University Grants Expo and Research Day, Bowie State University, Bowie, Maryland, USA, April 12, 2012.    Kato Mivule and Claude Turner, “A Framework for Data Privacy and Security in sub-Saharan Africa”, Doctoral Consortium Presentation, Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference, TAPIA 2011, San Francisco, California, USA, April 3-5, 2011.     WORKSHOPS National Laboratories Professional Development Workshop for Underrepresented Participants, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, June 13-14, 2013, Oak Ridge, TN, USA.   Cyber Security workshops, RECOIL ForCE 1 and 2, Sandia National Laboratories, December 2012, June, 2013, Albuquerque, NM, USA.    LEADERSHIP ROLES Volunteer Session Chair at the International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE 2013), July 22-25, Las Vegas, NV, USA.   Volunteer Session Chair at the Fifth International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications – COGNITIVE 2013, May 27 - June 1, 2013, Valencia, Spain.   Volunteer Session Chair at the International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE 2012), July 2012, Las Vegas, NV, USA.   Program Liaison, Graduate Students Association, Bowie State University; 2013 – 2014.   ASSOCIATIONS Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), member.    Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), member.   National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), member.      

Research Interests include: data privacy , cybersecurity, and data analytics. Other hobbies and interests include: history, human rights, comparative theology, the arts, exploring nature (travel and hiking) and physical exercise(long distance running/jogging).