New Directors Announced for UAB Cyber Center
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August 13, 2014
John Sloan, Ph.D., has been named the new director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s UAB Center for Cyber Security. Puri Bangalore, Ph.D., will assume Sloan’s former position of assistant director of UAB Center for Cyber Security.
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