- Associate Department Head, Computer Science & Engineering
- Professor of Practice, Computer Science & Engineering
- Phone: 979-862-7928
- Email: carlislem@tamu.edu
- Office: PETR 102C and PETR 221
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Computer Science, Princeton University – 1996
- B.S., Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Delaware – 1991
Research Interests
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- Computer security
- Programming languages
- Computer science education
Industry Experience
- • Director of United States Air Force Academy Center for Cyberspace Research
Awards & Honors
- Provost Academic Professional Track (APT) Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, Texas A&M University – 2025
- Engineering Teaching Excellence Award, Texas A&M College of Engineering – 2024
- Undergraduate Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, Texas A&M Computer Science and Engineering – 2023
- Meritorious Civilian Service Award, United States Air Force – 2016
- People Who Made a Difference in Security Award, SANS Institute – 2014
- Distinguished Educator, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) – 2009
- Colorado Professor of the Year, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (CFAT) and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) – 2008
- Arthur S. Flemming Award, the National Academy of Public Administration and The George Washington University's Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration – 2007
Selected Publications
- Nguyen, M. D., Carlisle, M. “C/C++ Vulnerability Data Set Generation Framework using a Parser and LLM.” Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on AI in Cybersecurity (ICAIC), February 2025.
- Seas, C., Fitzpatrick, G., Hamilton, J. A., Carlisle, M.C. “Automated vulnerability detection in source code using deep representation learning.” Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference, January 2024.
- M. Carlisle and B. Fagin. “IRONSIDES: DNS With No Single-Packet Denial of Service or Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities,” Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, December 2012.
- M.Carlisle. “Using YouTube to Enhance Student Class Preparation in an Introductory Java Course,” Proceedings of the 41st SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Milwaukee WI, March 2010.
- M. Carlisle, et.al. “RAPTOR: A Visual Programming Environment for Teaching Algorithmic Problem Solving”, Proceedings of the 36th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Saint Louis MO, February 2005.