George Dimitoglou

Biography

Dr. George Dimitoglou is a professor of computer science at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland, where he founded and directs the graduate cybersecurity program. He has extensive experience teaching computing and information technology in both in-person and online graduate and professional programs and led the effort that secured the College’s designation as a National Security Agency (NSA) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense.

His work focuses on information security, cryptography, secure information systems, and the intersection of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. Prof. Dimitoglou is a certified IBM Artificial Intelligence Practitioner Instructor and a Fulbright grant recipient (South Africa and Namibia). He also holds a Graduate Certificate in Public Policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, where he studied cybersecurity and responsible AI governance in public-interest digital transformation.

Before entering academia, Dr. Dimitoglou worked in industry and government on projects in information systems, telecommunications, data archiving, and space science. He earned his doctorate in Computer Science from the School of Engineering and Applied Science at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

He has received numerous honors, including a Graduate Teaching Excellence Award, an Advisor of the Year Award, and the IEEE Washington Section Faculty Advisor Award. Earlier in his career, his government work was recognized with a European Space Agency Mission Contribution Award and, as part of a team, a NASA Goddard Space Flight Center National Resource Award, a Robert H. Goddard Award for Exceptional Service, and an International Academy of Astronautics Team Achievement Award.

Prof. Dimitoglou is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the international honor society for computing and information disciplines.

Selected Works

Book Chapters

• H. Sarangal, G. Dimitoglou, "Privacy-Conscious Remote Proctoring: Balancing Academic Integrity, Surveillance, and Data Protection," in Emerging Trends in Computer Science and Computer Engineering Education. Springer (expected 2026) 

• M. W. Calafos and G. Dimitoglou, “Cyber laundering: Money laundering from fiat money to cryptocurrency,” in Principles and Practice of Blockchains, pp. 271–300, Springer International Publishing, 2022. 

Edited Books

• G. Dimitoglou, L. Deligiannidis, & H. Arabnia, H. (2025). “Cybersecurity: Cyber Defense, Privacy and Cyber Warfare.” De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111436548

Publications

• M. Momtaz, R. Leslie, F. Quader, G. Dimitoglou, and A. Latwala, "Correlated anomalous pattern mining from transactional cybersecurity dataset," in 2025 IEEE 15th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC), 2025. 
• G. Dimitoglou and C. Jim. “Benchmarking the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm and RSA in Key Signing and Verification Operations with Parallelism.” 22nd International Conference on Security & Management (SAM’23), Las Vegas, Nevada, July 24-27, 2023.
• G. Dimitoglou and C. Jim, “Performance Evaluation of Partially Homomorphic Encryption Algorithms,” in 2022 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI), pp. 910–915, IEEE, 2022. [acceptance rate: 19%]
• R. de C ́espedes III and G. Dimitoglou, “Development of a Virtualized Security Operations Center,” Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 108–119, 2021. [Best Paper Award]
• A. Husain, A. Salem, C. Jim, and G. Dimitoglou, “Development of an Efficient Network Intrusion Detection Model Using Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) on the UNSW-NB15 Dataset,” in the 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT), pp. 1–7, IEEE, 2019.
• G. Dimitoglou. “Telepresence: Evaluation of Robot Stand-ins for Remote Student Learning.” Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, 35(3):97–111, 2019.

Invited and Public Talks

• Exploring the Nexus of Mathematics, Computing, Cybersecurity, and Data Science at the Computer Science Honors Convocation, Mt. Saint Mary's University, Emmitsburg, Maryland (2025).
• Cybersecurity: Teaching Cryptography,  at the Destination Innovation conference; Grant from the Maryland Center for Computing Education (2023).
• The Invasion of Ukraine, Panelist (Cybersecurity), Center of Global Studies, Hood College, (2022).

• View Hood Talks Elections and Cybersecurity: Myths, Risks and Realities webinar (2024).