Eric Burger
Virginia Tech co-PI, Secure Communications
Biography
Eric W. Burger is a Research Professor of NextG Security at Virginia Tech and Research Director of CCI. Prior to VT, Dr. Burger was Research Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University, where he established and was PI of the Georgetown Site of the Security and Software Engineering Research Center (S2ERC) IUCRC (IIP-1362046). Dr. Burger then initiated the process to establish Cyber SMART as an IUCRC. However, he was called on by the IPA to serve as the Chief Technology Officer of the Federal Communications Commission and then as the Assistant Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
He is responsible for outreach to commercial, Federal, and research partners.