Dr. Drew Hamilton, Participant

Abstract

Dr. John A. Hamilton, Jr. is the Director of the Texas A&M University Cybersecurity Center and a professor of Computer Science and Engineering. Dr. Hamilton has a joint appointment with Idaho National Laboratory and serves as a guest scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. At Mississippi State University, he was the Founding Director for the Center for Cyber Innovation. Previously, he held an endowed chair as Alumni Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering with joint appointments in Industrial & Systems Engineering and Management at Auburn University, and was the Founding Director of the Auburn Cyber Research Center. Dr. Hamilton is a Fellow of the Society for Modeling & Simulation International (SCS), Past Chair of the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Special Interest Group on Ada (SIGAda) and Past Chair of ACM’s Special Interest Group on Simulation (SIGSIM). He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. 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 U.S. Naval War College.https://commons.erau.edu/avcysecworkshop-bios-2025/1016/thumbnail.jp