Rate My Professor Shannon McMurtrey

Dr. Shannon McMurtrey is an Associate Professor of Cyber-Risk Management in the Breech School of Business at Drury University, where he joined the faculty in 2016 and was promoted to his current rank in 2022. He launched his academic teaching career in 2002 at Missouri State University, earning the College of Business research award, directing the Computer Information Systems graduate program, and developing cybersecurity degree programs at both Missouri State University and Drury University. Dr. McMurtrey holds a Ph.D. from Nova Southeastern University (2010), an M.B.A. from Missouri State University (1996), and a B.S. from Missouri State University (1992). Complementing his academic credentials, he brings more than 25 years of professional experience in information technology, including roles as founder and co-founder of three companies focused on e-commerce, healthcare technology, and cybersecurity.

Dr. McMurtrey's research specializes in artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, with publications in journals in the United States and Europe. Prominent works include 'Employee turnover: a neural network solution' (Computers & Operations Research, 2005, 174 citations), 'Method, system, and computer-readable medium for providing a patient electronic medical record with an improved timeline' (U.S. Patent App. 11/131,958, 2006, 110 citations), 'Neonatal pain detection in videos using the iCOPEvid dataset and an ensemble of descriptors extracted from Gaussian of Local Descriptors' (Applied Computing and Informatics, 2023, 60 citations), 'Identification of infants’ cry motivation using spectrograms' (2019 International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Processing, 59 citations), and 'Knowledge discovery using a neural network simultaneous optimization algorithm on a real world classification problem' (European Journal of Operational Research, 2006, 42 citations). His contributions have earned him the 2017 'Security Professional of the Year' award from the Association of Information Technology Professionals. Dr. McMurtrey also maintains several industry certifications in network penetration, incident handling, web application security, and industrial control systems.