Dr Suvineetha Hearth joined SMC University as a faulty member in 2013. Currently she is mentoring Doctorate and Master’s level students in the completion of their dissertation. Before joining SMC she taught Business and Information Systems departments at several Universities and four-year colleges, all located in the United States, Japan and Bahrain. This expansive list includes Dubuque University in Iowa, the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, and Atlantic Cape Community College in the state of New Jersey and university of Bahrain. She also worked as a teaching and research assistant at the Gifu University, and a visiting instructor at Gifu Technical College, both in Japan. Through over fifteen years of teaching, She has developed and taught multidisciplinary undergraduate course that brings together wide range of Management, Information Systems & Technology areas.

Her research interests include security policies, protocols for security, access control, authentication, integrity, Information Assurance and e-learning.