Professor and Director Ben Ruddell – School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems (SICCS) 

Professor Ruddell is a full Professor and the Director of the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems at Northern Arizona University. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Arizona (Water Resources practice). His professional experience is in informatics, data science, systems engineering, and generally in the leadership of the interdisciplinary university enterprise. His research includes the acquisition, fusion, organization, and utilization of novel data sources, and touches on both the theoretical and practical aspects of the ethics of data in an age of information.