Zachary A. Collier, Assistant Professor of Management and Director of the Center for Applied Analytics, Radford University

Zachary A. Collier is assistant professor of management and director of the Center for Applied Analytics at Radford University, as well as a visiting scholar at the Center for Hardware and Embedded Systems Security and Trust (CHEST). He’s a member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).

Articles by Zachary A. Collier, Assistant Professor of Management and Director of the Center for Applied Analytics, Radford University

Discover the Latest Cybersecurity Risk That Exploits AI Vulnerabilities: ‘Slopsquatting’

You may never have heard of the term "slopsquatting" before, but as AI continues to rapidly expand, it's likely you'll become very familiar with it in the near future. AI capabilities continue to improve at a rapid pace, and one sector feeling the profound impact is software engineering. With a few prompts, AI can write code automatically, in the fraction of time it would have taken a human coder. A recent survey found that 45% of organizations have launched AI-generated code. Some companies are even using AI to write as much as 75% of their code.

Posted October 15, 2026