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Contact

Email: czhang4@kennesaw.edu

Office Hours:
Drop in my office during office hours according to the course syllabus for the semester, otherwise, make an appointment via KSU email beforehand.

Grants and Sponsored Projects

  1. KSU Lead PI: Shirley Tian, KSU Co-PIs: Jack Zheng, Hossain Shahriar, Seyedamin Pouriyeh, Chi Zhang. Affordable Learning Georgia (ALG) R25 Continuous Improvement Grants for MSIT courses, BOR, 2024.
  2. KSU Lead PI: Shirley Tian, KSU Co-PIs: Jack Zheng, Chi Zhang, Seyedamin Pouriyeh, Hossain Shahriar. Affordable Learning Georgia (ALG) R23 Countinuous Improvement Grant for MSIT courses, BOR, 2023.
  3. KSU Lead PI: Shirley Tian, Co-PIs: Hossain Shahriar, Chi Zhang, Jack Zheng. ALG R21 Countinuous Improvement Grant for MSIT courses, IT 3123, IT 3503, IT 4733, IT 4823, BOR, 2023.
  4. KSU Lead PI: Hossain Shahriar, KSU Co-PIs: Maria Valero, Chi Zhang, Sweta Sneha. National Institute of General Medical Science, a NIH STTR program. Proposal "A Framework mHealth App Security and Privacy Analysis". Lead Institution: Ubitrix Inc. KSU (R&D site) receives a subaward of $103,391 on this project to implement HIPAA compliance checker tool for Android mhealth apps. BOR, 2021.
  5. Li, L. (PI), Halstead-Nussloch, R. (Co-PI), Le, L. (Co-PI), Zhang, C. (Co-PI), Affordable Learning Georgia (ALG) Affordable Matererials Grant, $10,000. 2021.
  6. Zhang, C. (PI), Rutherfoord, R. (Co-PI), Vande Ven, S. (Co-PI), Zheng, G. (Co-PI), "No-Cost-to-Student learning material enhancement - IT 6103, IT 4713, IT 4723, IT 3223," Sponsored by ALG, BOR, $10,000. 2021.
  7. Shahriar, H. M. (PI), Zhang, C. (Co-PI), "Building Secure Software Through Data Leakage Analysis Plugins", Sponsored by ICWD - SunTrust, Kennesaw State University, $8,996. June 2020 - June 2021.
  8. Zhang, C. (PI), Sponsored Research, "2019-2020 R2 Research Success Faculty Learning Community", Sponsored by Office of Research, Kennesaw State University, $1,000. January - May 2020.
  9. Shahriar, H. M. (PI), Li, L. (Co-PI), Pouriyeh, S. (Co-PI), Tian, S. (Co-PI), Zhang, C. (Co-PI), "Large Scale No-Cost Textbook Resources Towards Zero Cost MSIT Degree Program," $30,000. BOR. October 2019 - December 2020.
  10. Shahriar, H. M. (PI), Zhang, C.(Co-PI), "IT 6843 Revision - Development of Labware," Sponsored by Affordable Learning Georgia- USG, Kennesaw State University, $4,800. BOR, May 2019 - December 2020.
  11. Zheng, G. (PI), Zhang, C. (Co-PI), "No-Cost-to-Student learning material enhancement - IT 6713," Sponsored by ALG, State, $4,800. February 2019 - May 2020.
  12. Zhang, C. (PI), Shahriar, H. (Co-PI), "HIT- IT3503/IT6503 Revision," Sponsored by Affordable Learning Georgia (USG), $4,800. October 3, 2018 - December 11, 2019.
  13. Zhang, C. (PI), "Open-source Electronic Health Records (EHR) Systems: Evaluation and Application," Sponsored by CETL, Kennesaw State University, $6,400. August 15, 2016 - June 30, 2017.
  14. Zhang, C. (PI), Brown, R. L. (Co-PI), "Textbook Transformation for Health Information Technology Related Courses," Sponsored by USG, State, $10,800. February 15, 2016 - May 30, 2017.
  15. Zhang, C. (PI), Peltsverger, S. B. (Co-PI), "Investigation and Development of Online Tools and techniques for Information Security Hands-on Exercises," Sponsored by SPSU, Kennesaw State University, $5,000. 2014.