9. Giacobe, N.A. (Under Review to Appear in July 2012). A Comprehensive SA Assessment Battery: Combining SAGAT, SART and other SA Assessments for Cyber Security. 15th International Conference on Information Fusion. Singapore.
8. Tyworth, M.J., Giacobe, N.A., Mancuso, V.F. (To Appear in April 2012). The distributed nature of cyber situation awareness. SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing Conference. Baltimore, MD.
7. Giacobe, N. A. (To Appear in April 2012). Data fusion in cyber security: first order entity extraction from common cyber data. SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing Conference. Baltimore, MD.
6. Vincent Mancuso, Dev Minotra, Nicklaus Giacobe, Michael McNeese and Michael Tyworth. (2012). idsNETS: An Experimental Platform to Study Situation Awareness for Intrusion Detection Analysts. 2nd IEEE Conference on Cognitive Methods in Situation Awareness and Decision Support. New Orleans, LA.
5. Innovative Tool Adapatation Award

   Giacobe, N., & Xu, S. (2011). Geovisual Analytics for Cyber Security: Adopting the GeoViz Toolkit. Paper presented at the 2011 IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology.
4. Ballora, M., Giacobe, N. A., & Hall, D. L. (2011). Songs of cyberspace: an update on sonifications of network traffic to support situational awareness. Paper presented at the Proc. SPIE, Orlando, FL.
3. Giacobe, N.A.; Kim, H.W.; Faraz, A.; "Mining social media in extreme events : Lessons learned from the DARPA network challenge," Technologies for Homeland Security (HST), 2010 IEEE International Conference on , vol., no., pp.165-171, 8-10 Nov. 2010
2. Giacobe, NA, April 2010. “Application of the JDL Fusion Process Model for Cyber Security”, Proc. SPIE 7710-27, Orlando, FL.
1. Giacobe, NA, February 2010. “Large Scale Network Security Visualization”, iSymposium 2010, College of Information Sciences and Technology Graduate Symposium, University Park, PA.

Book Chapters

1. Ballora, Mark, Nicklaus A. Giacobe, Michael McNeese and David L. Hall. "Information Data Fusion and Computer Network Defense." Situational Awareness in Computer Network Defense: Principles, Methods and Applications. IGI Global, 2012. 141-164. Web. 21 Dec. 2011. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-0104-8.ch009

Posters and Presentations

7. Nicklaus A. Giacobe (2012). Improving Situation Awareness in Cyber Security. The Pennsylvania State University, College of Information Science and Technology Advisory Board. University Park, PA.
6. Nicklaus A. Giacobe (2012). Improving your Cyber Situation Awareness. Penn State Security Operations and Services Security Conference. University Park, PA.
5. Michael Tyworth, Nicklaus A. Giacobe, Vincent Mancuso, Christopher Dancy (2012). The Distributed Nature of Cyber Situation Awareness. 2nd IEEE Conference on Cognitive Methods in Situation Awareness and Decision Support. New Orleans, LA.
4. Michael McNeese, David Hall, Michael Tyworth and Nicklaus Giacobe, “Using Field Research, Simulations, Data Fusion, and Visual Analytics to Improve Cyber Situation Awareness: A Cognitive Systems Engineering Approach”, Year 2 Annual Review for Human Centric Computer-Aided Cyber Situation Awareness ARO MURI, Fairfax, VA. September 8, 2011.
3. J. Cole, N. Giacobe, S. Hutchinson, W. McIntosh, A. Pressley, A. Reifers; “Understanding the Role of Network Analysts: A Day in the Life of an Analyst”, Invited Talk, Cyber Situational Awareness Workshop, Gilbert, AZ. February 8-11, 2011.
2. Giacobe, NA,“Application of the JDL Fusion Process Model for Cyber Security”, Network Science Day, University Park, PA. April 16, 2010.
1. Giacobe, NA,“An Evaluation of the Technical Approaches to the Insider Threat”, College of Information Sciences and Technology Graduate Symposium, University Park, PA. February 2009.

Teaching Experience

Guest Lecturer

Invited Speaker, IST 220 Networking and Telecommunications, Dr. Xiaolong Zhang

• Fall 2011 – “Transmission Media – Practice and Theory”, 3 Sessions

Invited Speaker, SRA 111 Introduction to Security and Risk Analysis, Dr. Isaac Brewer

• Summer 2008 – “Computer Security Technologies”

• Fall 2008 – “Computer Security Technologies”

• Spring 2009 – “Firewalls and Intrusion Detection Systems”

• Spring 2009 – “Cryptography – History and Current Techniques”

Teaching Assistant

IST 220 Networking and Telecommunications, Dr. Xiaolong Zhang, Spring 2011

Student Supervision

Undergraduate Student Interns - 300 Hour, 1 Credit Internship
College of Information Sciences and Techology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania

Eric Zee, Spring 2011 Scott Lomax, Fall 2010/Spring 2011 Carl Breznai, Fall 2010 Harry Miller, Fall 2010 Harry Huang, Fall 2009/Spring 2010

Paul Bradley, Fall 2009 Bryan Brainard, Summer 2009 Michael Barnes, Spring 2008 Brian Halpin, Summer 2007

Associate Degree Student Interns - 336 Hour Internship
South Hills Business School, State College, Pennsylvania

Tony Mona, Spring/Summer 2010 Ryan McManus, Summer 2009 Larry Quay, Summer 2008 Jennifer Pellegrino, Summer 2007

Professional Memberships and Service

IEEE Graduate Student Member (since 2009)

SPIE Student Member (since 2010)

Graduate Student Association in IST (GIST)

• Treasurer (2009-10)
• Brown Bag Seminar Leader (2011-2012)

2010 College of IST Graduate Symposium, Logistics Subcommittee Chair