Dr. Joe Adams is the Vice President for Research and Cybersecurity at Merit Network, Inc. In this role, he is the director of the Michigan Cyber Range, an internationally recognized platform for education, exercises, and testing in cyber security. Recently retired from the US Army as a Colonel in the Signal Corps, he served as an Associate Professor at the US Military Academy before becoming the Chief Information Officer at the National Defense University.
Joe earned a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University and a M.Sc. in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Arkansas. His Ph.D. is in Computer Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, where his research focused on network security and access control in mobile ad-hoc networks.