POSTS

McKenna, S. P. Is Your Cybersecurity Spending Misaligned? (post on LinkedIn.com), 2023

McKenna, S. P. (aka The Cyber Analogist on medium.com) The Future of Cyber Risk Consulting, 2023

McKenna, S. P. (aka The Cyber Analogist on medium.com) Cybersecurity Maturity Versus Cyber Risk Resilience, 2023

McKenna, S. P. (aka The Cyber Analogist on medium.com) Cyber Risk – The Big Picture, 2023

THOUGHT PIECES

McKenna, S. P. Helping Your Local Government Become More Data-Driven, 2023

McKenna, S. P.  Five Common Misconceptions about Data Science, 2018.

McKenna, S. Getting Ahead of the Unmanned Aerial System Threat Open-Air Venus, Outdoor Facilities, and Events, October 2017.

JOURNAL PAPERS (First author, refereed)

McKenna, S. P., L. R. Croft, N. J. Short, and J. M. Levitt. An Unsupervised Random Forest Approach to Spoofed Fingerprint Detection, IEEE Trans. Information Forensics & Security Special Issue on Biometric Spoofing and Countermeasures, submission, July 2014.

McKenna, S. P., K. B. Parkman, L. J. Perren, and J. R. McKenna. Automatic detection of a subsurface wire using an electromagnetic gradiometer, IEEE Trans. Geoscience Remote Sensing, 51(1):132–138, 2013.

McKenna, S. P., K. B. Parkman, L. J. Perren, and J. R. McKenna. Response of an electromagnetic gradiometer to a subsurface wire, IEEE Trans. Geoscience Remote Sensing, 49(12):4944-4953, 2011.

McKenna, S. P. and J. R. McKenna. Modeling and analysis of the response of a triaxial, frequency-domain electromagnetic induction sensor to a buried, linear conductor, Geophysics, 75:F1-F14, 2010.

McKenna, S. P. and E. J. Bock.  Physicochemical effects of the marine microlayer on air–sea gas transport.  In Marine Surface Films: Chemical Characteristics, Influence on Air-Sea Interactions, and Remote Sensing, M. Gade, H. Hühnerfuss, and G.M. Korenowski (eds.), Springer, pp. 77–91, 2006.

McKenna, S. P. and W. R. McGillis. Observations of flow repeatability and secondary circulation in an oscillating grid-stirred tank. Phys. Fluids, 16:3499–3502, 2004.

McKenna, S. P. and W. R. McGillis. The role of free-surface turbulence and surfactants in air-water gas transfer. Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, 47:539–553, 2004.

McKenna, S. P. and W. R. McGillis. Performance of fundamental image velocimetry techniques. Exp. Fluids, 32:106–115, 2002.

McKenna, S. P., W. R. McGillis, and E. J. Bock.  The influence of surface films on near-surface vortical flows. Colloids Surfaces A: Physicochem. Eng. Aspects, 118:263–272, 1996.

PRESENTATIONS

McKenna, S.  Machine Learning Overview, invited tutorial. US Navy Hack the Machine – Boston, September 2017.

McKenna, S. P.  Challenges in Practical Machine Learning and Advanced Analytics, Boston Data Mining Meetup presentation, July 18, 2017.

ACADEMIC

McKenna, S. P.  Free-surface turbulence and air–water gas exchange.  Doctoral dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 2000.

McKenna, S. P.  The influence of surface films on interfacial flow dynamics.  Masters thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 1997.

PATENTS

Roberts, D. L., Syphard, J. E., McKenna, S. P., et al.  System and method for assessing an operating condition of an asset, United States Patent 12265932, April 1, 2025.

OTHER

McKenna, S. P.  Modeling Building Fire Risk Across the City, ANALYZE BOSTON Open Data Challenge, May 9, 2017.

McKenna, S., B. Kaufman, and N. Keegan. Assessing the Predictability of an NFL Offense, 2016 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference submission.

McKenna, S. P. Toward a Measure of Pitch Quality, MLB Analytics Hackathon, January 2016.