My academic journey culminated at the historic New Jersey City University Commencement Ceremony, where I formally received my Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) in Civil Security, Leadership, Management, and Policy. The exact moment of my formal doctoral recognition and stage walk can be viewed directly at the Doctoral Recognition Stage Walk on the official live stream. Grounded in the empirical findings of my defensive AI research, I frequently contribute expert commentary to scientific and industry publications and lecture at prominent academic and public institutions nationwide.
I formally presented and defended my doctoral research frameworks in a presentation titled Leveraging Generative Artificial Intelligence Large Language Models for Phishing Email Detection: Empirical Assessment and Comparative Analysis. In this technical briefing, I detail the end-to-end architecture of my mixed-methods experimental design, showcasing how a balanced corpus of 2,000 ground-truth email artifacts was evaluated against leading LLMs via Signal Detection Theory. The presentation outlines the structural performance profiles of individual models—specifically isolating the high sensitivity of Anthropic Claude and Google Gemini alongside the precision boundaries of OpenAI GPT. Furthermore, I deliver a deep dive into the human-computer interaction variables discovered during my research, mapping out the "trust-verify paradox" and explaining why explainability and evidence-based reasoning are non-negotiable requirements for digital citizens interacting with automated security decision-support tools.
You can watch the full recorded defense presentation here: Dissertation Defense Presentation.