Josh Mead Email & Phone Number

Lowell, Arkansas, United States

Lowell, AR

Lowell, AR

Lowell, AR

Fayetteville, Arkansas

• Summer Advisor for the Freshman Engineering Program (FEP)
• Assisted in setting up the advising areas each day for incoming Freshman students and parents to obtain the necessary information for the fall semester
• Engaged in one-on-one advising with the students to ensure their class requirements were being met and to offer recommendations and advice for their fall schedule

Fayetteville, AR

• Freshman Engineering Program (FEP) TA
• Assisted with classroom setup each day to ensure timely class start time
• Helped students with any problems related to the coursework/projects in class or during regularly scheduled office hours
• Graded and stayed up-to-date with assignments and papers throughout the semester
• Helped with out-of-class events, such as moderating and judging the Freshman Honor's Research Symposium

Rome, NY

• Graduate Student Researcher for the AFRL-SFFP focused on security
• Researched security concepts and virtualization in software sandboxing to apply for a hardware-based approach
• Implemented the hardware sandbox design on a Zynq-7000 SoC based FPGA in VHDL using Vivado tools
• Tested the hardware sandbox using RS232 UART module hardware Trojan benchmarks
• Gave an oral presentation regarding my work and prepared a demonstration for other SFFP fellows and mentors

Master’S Degree, Computer Engineering, 4.0

Thesis: Prevention of Drone Jamming using Hardware Sandboxing

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Engineering, 3.98

Activities and Societies: Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa NuMinored in Mathematics