College of Sciences

Computer Science

James Wagner

Assistant Professor

About

Dr. James Wagner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of New Orleans. He received his Ph.D. and Master's in Computer Science from DePaul University, and his Bachelor's in Chemistry from Marquette University. His primary research interest is in cybersecurity related to the prevention and detection of data tampering and exfiltration, formal methods in database forensics, fine-grained access control policies for database systems, and data retention policies. Dr. Wagner's other research interests include improving database performance, such as storage-aware indexing and optimizing queries that contain user-defined predicates.

Education

DePaul University, PhD 2020

Research Interests

Database systems, cybersecurity, digital forensics, database forensics, query optimization, fine-grained access control policies