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Drew Hamilton is the Director of the Texas A&M University Cybersecurity Center and a professor of computer science & engineering. Dr. Hamilton has a joint appointment with Idaho National Laboratory. At Mississippi State he was the Founding Director for the Center for Cyber Innovation at Mississippi State University. Previously he held an endowed chair as Alumni Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering with joint appointments in Industrial & Systems Engineering and in Management at Auburn University and was the Founding Director of Auburn Cyber Research Center. Dr. Hamilton is a Fellow of the Society for Modeling & Simulation International (SCS), Past Chair of ACM’s Special Interest Group on Ada (SIGAda) and Past Chair of ACM’s Special Interest Group on Simulation (SIGSIM). He currently is an elected member of the ACM SIG Governing Board (SGB) Executive Committee where he serves as the ACM Conference Advisor. During the past twenty years Dr. Hamilton has been awarded more than 80 research grants and has received more than $32M in extramural funding as PI or co-PI.
During his active duty career in the United States Army, he served in several field artillery command and staff assignments and qualified in nuclear / chemical targeting. Dr. Hamilton served as the Director of the Officer Training Department at the US Army Computer Science School at Fort Gordon. He was a member of the Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Faculty of the United States Military Academy, West Point where he served as the department research director. He led two DOD program offices with multimillion dollar budgets.
Dr. Hamilton has a B.A. in Journalism from Texas Tech University, an M.S. in Systems Management from the University of Southern California, an M.S. in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Texas A&M University. Dr. Hamilton is a distinguished graduate of the Naval War College.
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