Brian R. Toone

Brian R. Toone serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science within Samford University's Howard College of Arts and Sciences. A native of Hoover, Alabama, he teaches in Samford's growing computer science program with a focus on one-on-one student interaction.

Toone holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Clemson University and both MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of California-Davis. His educational background prepared him for a career that blends academic research with practical software development experience.

His research spans multiple areas of computer science with particular focus on web engineering, software engineering, trust and security systems, programming languages, database applications, and parallel processing. Toone is actively working to apply software engineering concepts to web application development and optimization, with special interest in bringing parallel computation capabilities to web applications. He is currently building a virtual supercomputer by networking department computers to donate idle processing cycles across campus.

His publication history reveals consistent research in trust mediation for distributed information systems, with significant work between 1998-2008. His research evolved from control flow prediction in high-performance computing (1998) to web engineering and Ajax applications (2006-2008), showing adaptability to changing technology landscapes.

Toone is an active member of professional organizations including the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). His research has been presented at numerous conferences including the ACM Mid-Southeast Chapter, Alabama Academy of Science, and various security and information systems conferences.

Beyond academia, Toone is a competitive cyclist who has participated in major endurance cycling events including Paris-Brest-Paris (2023) and Race Across America (2017), where he raised awareness for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy through the Ride4Gabe initiative.