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Jacob Hochstetler

Clinical Assistant Professor

University of North Texas

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Email: Jacob.Hochstetler@unt.edu

Education

  • PhD, University of North Texas, 2021
    Major: Computer Science and Engineering
    Dissertation: An Extensible Computing Architecture Design for Connected Autonomous Vehicle Systems
  • MS, University of North Texas, 2018
    Major: Computer Science
  • BS, University of North Texas, 2011
    Major: Computer Science

Development Activities

  • Continuing Education Program, Certificate of Excellence in Teaching Online (CETO), UNT. Denton,Texas,United States of America. (August 30, 2024 - December 13, 2024).
  • Conference Attendance, Cybersecurity and Technology Innovation Conference, Department of Energy. Dallas,Texas,United States of America. (July 29, 2024 - August 1, 2024).
  • Conference Attendance, GopherCon 2024, Google. Chicago,IL,United States of America. (July 7, 2024 - July 10, 2024).
  • Self-Study Program, ABET Assessments Webinar series, ABET. United States of America. (January 2, 2024).
  • Conference Attendance, GopherCon 2023, Google/Buf/Uber/JetBrains. San Diego,CA,United States of America. (September 26, 2023 - September 29, 2023).
  • Workshop, National Convergence Technology Center/Convergence College Network workshop, CCN. Frisco,Texas,United States of America. (July 12, 2023).
  • Workshop, Convergence College Network workshop, CCN. Frisco,Texas,United States of America. (May 19, 2023).
  • Conference Attendance, GenCyber 2023, NSA/NSF. Linthicum Heights,MD,United States of America. (May 14, 2023 - May 16, 2023).
  • Conference Attendance, KubeCon 2022, AWS/Intel/Google/VMware/Cisco/IBM. Detroit,MI,United States of America. (October 24, 2022 - October 28, 2022).
  • Conference Attendance, High Impact Technology Exchange Conference (HI-TEC) 2022, Collin College. Salt Lake City,UT,United States of America. (July 26, 2022 - July 28, 2022).
  • Workshop, 5G and Blockchain, HI-TEC. Salt Lake City,UT,United States of America. (July 25, 2022).
  • Workshop, Engaging Employers, HI-TEC. Salt Lake City,UT,United States of America. (July 25, 2022).
  • Workshop, National Convergence Technology Center/Convergence College Network workshop, CCN. Frisco,Texas,United States of America. (July 10, 2022).
  • Conference Attendance, GenCyber 2022, NSA/NSF. Arlington,VA,United States of America. (May 12, 2022 - May 13, 2022).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

    University of North Texas

  • CSCE 1015 - Computing Tools and Techniques Laboratory, 3 courses.
  • CSCE 3055 - IT Project Management, 1 course.
  • CSCE 3530 - Introduction to Computer Networks, 6 courses.
  • CSCE 3550 - Foundations of Cybersecurity, 15 courses.
  • CSCE 4350 - Fundamentals of Database Systems, 5 courses.
  • CSCE 4560 - Secure Electronic Commerce, 2 courses.
  • CSCE 4600 - Introduction to Operating Systems, 3 courses.
  • CSCE 5350 - Fundamentals of Database Systems, 2 courses.
  • CSCE 5552 - Cybersecurity Essentials, 2 courses.
  • CSCE 5580 - Computer Networks, 2 courses.
  • CSCE 5585 - Advanced Network Security, 1 course.

Non-Credit Instruction

  • Other (Lead Instructor GenCyber 2024 teacher summer camp), NSA/NSF, 25 participants. (April 9, 2024 - February 15, 2025).
  • Workshop, HackUNT, 60 participants. (October 26, 2024).
  • Guest Lecture, Computer Science Club, 50 participants. (October 25, 2024).
  • Public Lecture, Google, 1200 participants. (July 9, 2024).
  • Workshop, Cybersecurity Club, 30 participants. (April 4, 2024).
  • Guest Lecture, UNT, 40 participants. (March 8, 2024).
  • Guest Lecture, UNT, 40 participants. (March 6, 2024).
  • Guest Lecture, Computer Science Club, 50 participants. (February 20, 2024).
  • Workshop, HackUNT, 30 participants. (November 11, 2023).
  • Workshop, Cybersecurity Club, 30 participants. (November 9, 2023).
  • Guest Lecture, Computer Science Club, 50 participants. (October 25, 2023).
  • Guest Lecture, Computer Science Club, 50 participants. (September 13, 2023).
  • Other (Community Outreach), Fidelity Investments, 9 participants. (August 18, 2023).
  • Other (Instructor GenCyber 2023 student summer camp), NSA/NSF, 120 participants. (June 5, 2023 - June 30, 2023).
  • Other (Lead Instructor GenCyber 2023 teacher summer camp), NSA/NSF, 25 participants. (June 10, 2023 - June 24, 2023).
  • Workshop, Digital Divas, 60 participants. (February 11, 2023).
  • Other (Lead Instructor GenCyber 2022 student summer camp), NSA/NSF, 115 participants. (June 20, 2022 - July 15, 2022).
  • Guest Lecture, Keller Center for Advanced Learning [Keller ISD], 40 participants. (May 19, 2022).

Directed Student Learning

  • Other (Computer Science Capstone Project advisor), "OpenTutor," Computer Science and Engineering. (August 30, 2024).
  • Other (IT Capstone Project advisor), "Infrastructure automation," Computer Science and Engineering. (August 30, 2024).
  • Other (IT Capstone Project advisor), "Customized Cybersecurity scenario creator," Computer Science and Engineering. (August 30, 2024).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, "TBD," Computer Science and Engineering. (April 30, 2024).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, "Tentative: Cybersecurity Networking," Computer Science and Engineering. (September 1, 2023).
  • Other (Computer Science Capstone Project advisor), "Modern Envoy Replacement," Computer Science and Engineering. (September 20, 2023 - May 1, 2024).
  • Other (Computer Science Capstone Project advisor), "Fossil," Computer Science and Engineering. (September 1, 2023 - May 1, 2024).
  • Other (Honors Contract Project), "mDNS Protocol and Browser," Computer Science and Engineering. (September 7, 2022 - December 6, 2022).

Awards and Honors

  • Nominated for 2024 CENG Faculty Service Award, UNT CENG. (April 25, 2024).
  • 2024 CSE Faculty Service Award, UNT CSE Department. (April 23, 2024).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book Chapter

  • Qiao, Z., Hochstetler, J., Liang, S., Fu, S., Chen, H., Settlemyer, B. (2018). Developing Cost-Effective Data Rescue Schemes to Tackle Disk Failures in Data Centers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 194-208. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94301-5_15

    • Conference Proceeding

  • Tang, S., Chen, B.H., Hochstetler, J., Hirsch, J., Fu, S. (2020). Cooperative Mixed Reality Leveraging Edge Computing and Communication. Journal of the ACM. 2020 IEEE/ACM Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC). N/A (N/A) 425-429. N/A, IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/sec50012.2020.00064
  • Liang, S., Qiao, Z., Tang, S., Hochstetler, J., Fu, S., Shi, W., Chen, H. (2019). An Empirical Study of Quad-Level Cell (QLC) NAND Flash SSDs for Big Data Applications. IEEE Internet Computing. 2019 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data). 3676-3685. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/bigdata47090.2019.9006406
  • Tang, S., Hochstetler, J., Li, Y., Fu, S. (2019). Low-latency High-level Data Sharing for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles. 2019 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Internet (ICII). https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9065176
  • Chen, Q., Tang, S., Hochstetler, J., Guo, J., Li, Y., Xiong, J., Yang, Q., Fu, S. (2019). Low-Latency High-Level Data Sharing for Connected and Autonomous Vehicular Networks. IEEE Internet Computing. 2019 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Internet (ICII). 287-296. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/icii.2019.00055
  • Liang, S., Qiao, Z., Hochstetler, J., Huang, S., Fu, S., Shi, W., Tiwari, D., Chen, H., Settlemyer, B., Montoya, D. (2018). Reliability Characterization of Solid State Drives in a Scalable Production Datacenter. IEEE Internet Computing. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data). 3341-3349. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/bigdata.2018.8622643
  • Hochstetler, J., Padidela, R., Chen, Q., Yang, Q., Fu, S. (2018). Embedded Deep Learning for Vehicular Edge Computing. Journal of the ACM. 2018 IEEE/ACM Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC). N/A (N/A) 341-343. N/A, IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/sec.2018.00038
  • Qiao, Z., Hochstetler, J., Liang, S., Fu, S., Chen, H., Settlemyer, B. (2018). Incorporate Proactive Data Protection in ZFS Towards Reliable Storage Systems. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 2018 IEEE 16th Intl Conf on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, 16th Intl Conf on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, 4th Intl Conf on Big Data Intelligence and Computing and Cyber Science and Technology Congress(DASC/PiCom/DataCom/CyberSciTech). 904-911. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/dasc/picom/datacom/cyberscitec.2018.00-10
  • Hochstetler, J., Hochstetler, L., Fu, S. (2016). An Optimal Police Patrol Planning Strategy for Smart City Safety. IEEE Internet Computing. 2016 IEEE 18th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications; IEEE 14th International Conference on Smart City; IEEE 2nd International Conference on Data Science and Systems (HPCC/SmartCity/DSS). 1256-1263. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/hpcc-smartcity-dss.2016.0178

Presentations Given

    Invited Talk

  • Hochstetler, J. (Author & Presenter), Gophercon 2024, Miles To Go, Golang for Competitive Programming?, Google, Chicago, IL, United States of America. (2024).

Media Contributions

    Other

  • "Lightning Talk life," Go Time. (August 21, 2024).

Contracts, Grants, Sponsored Research

    Grant - Research

  • Do, H. (Principal), Morozov, K. (Co-Principal), Bryce, R.C. (Other), Hochstetler, J. (Other), "GenCyber Teachers Camp: GenCyber Academy," sponsored by National Security Agency (NSA), Federal, $149900 Funded. (2023 - 2025).
  • Keathly, D.M. (Co-Principal), Pottathuparambil, R.J. (Supporting), Hochstetler, J. (Supporting), "National Convergence Technology Center Renewal no cost extension," sponsored by NSF, Federal, $42149 Funded. (2022 - 2023).

Service

University Service

  • Committee Member, Computer Science. (October 30, 2023 - Present).
  • Member, North Texas Oklahoma Louisiana Computing Consortium (NCC). (June 13, 2023 - Present).
  • Committee Chair, Teaching Faculty Hiring Committee. (August 23, 2022 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee. (January 1, 2022 - Present).
  • Other (Supervisory), HackUNT 2024. (October 26, 2024 - October 27, 2024).
  • Guest Speaker, Computer Science Club. (October 25, 2024).
  • Guest Speaker, UNT Cyber Security Club. (April 4, 2024).
  • Other (Supervisory), Botathon 2024. (March 30, 2024).
  • Guest Speaker, Computer Science Club. (February 20, 2024).
  • Other (Supervisory), HackUNT 2023. (November 11, 2023 - November 12, 2023).
  • Guest Speaker, UNT Cyber Security Club. (November 9, 2023).
  • Other (Judge), HackUTD. (November 4, 2023 - November 5, 2023).
  • Guest Speaker, Computer Science Club. (October 25, 2023).
  • Guest Speaker, Computer Science Club. (September 13, 2023).
  • Committee Member, Teaching Faculty Hiring Committee. (January 1, 2022 - August 23, 2022).
  • Committee Member, Teaching Faculty Hiring Committee. (January 1, 2022 - August 22, 2022).
  • Other (Supervisory), HackUNT 2022. (April 23, 2022 - April 24, 2022).

Professional Service

  • Guest Speaker, Gophercon 2024. Chicago, Illinois. (July 7, 2024 - July 10, 2024).
  • Task Force Chair, IEEE Mobility: Operations, Services, and Technologies (MOST) conference. Dallas, Texas. (October 25, 2023 - May 3, 2024).
  • Reviewer, Conference Paper, 15th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing. Vancouver, WA. (December 6, 2022 - December 9, 2022).
  • Guest Speaker, KISD KCAL WIT. Keller, TX. (May 19, 2022).