Dr. Melody Moh received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Davis. She is a professor and former chairperson (Summer 2019 - Summer 2024) of the Dept of Computer Science at San Jose State University. She currently serves as the PI (Principle Investigator) of an Implementation Grant from the Center for Inclusive Computing (Oct 2021 - Oct 2026), the PI of the WITH Cyber project for development future workforce in Cybersecurity and AI in California (2023-2026), funded by the State of California, and the PI for the SJSU Instruction Hub of Break Through Tech (2024-26), funded by NSF (National Science Foundation) through Break Through Tech (of Cornell University).  She has received over $4M federal and private grants in research and education.

 

Dr. Moh’s main research area includes Cybersecurity, Cloud Computing, Wireless Networks, AI/ML (Machine Learning) Applications, and Computer Science Education. She has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles in international journals, conference proceedings, and books, including several best-paper awards, and has served as a keynote speaker at several international conferences. She has been a consultant and collaborated broadly with companies in the Silicon Valley and elsewhere, including Dell, Nutanix, Ericsson, Nokia, Fujitsu Labs, KDDI, and 3Com.

 

Dr. Moh’s work in Computer Science (CS) Education: Passionate about improving the diversity of computing education and of cyber workforce, she has recently led the CS Dept to develop several new BS and MS degree programs including BS in Data Science, and both BS and MS in CS + Linguistics, in CS + Geology, and is developing a BS in CS + Biology (Computational Biology), each of which is the first of its kind in the California State University (CSU) system.