Adam J. O'Donnell is an NSF Graduate Research Fellow
pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Drexel University. He
graduated from Drexel Summa Cum Laude with a BSEE in 2001 and a MSCE in
2004. In a former life, Adam designed RF Amplifier subsystems at Lucent
Technologies, where he was awarded a patent for his work. More recent times
have found him holding a security research position at Guardent, Inc,
serving as a principle member of the Logan Group, and consulting for both
the private and public sector.
Adam has written parts of several books, serving as the technical editor and
contributor to "Building Open Source Network Security Tools", a contributing
author on "Hacker's Challenge", and co-author of "Hacker's Challenge 2".
Adam has been fortunate enough to secure both funding and offers of funding
from sources other than the NSF. He was offered and accepted the College of
Engineering Dean's Fellowship from 2002 to 2005, the TA Excellence Award in
2004, the Koerner Family Fellowship and the Cisco Systems Information
Assurance Scholarship in 2003, and the Colehower Fellowship in 2001. Adam
was also offered the DoD's National Defense Science and Engineering
Fellowship in 2002.
His academic research interests are in security through diversity, network
security, and network measurement.
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