Bio:
Joel Rasmus is the managing director for Purdue University’s Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS); one of the largest and top-ranking interdisciplinary academic institute in North America focusing on cyber and cyber-physical assurance, security, privacy and resiliency. Rasmus joined Purdue in 2002, bringing with him more than 15 years of experience in project management. At CERIAS Rasmus developed a strategic partnership program that provides a formalized link between the University and industry. The program fosters tech transfer, basic and applied collaborative research, professional consultation and targeted student recruitment mechanisms. The CERIAS Strategic Partnership Program has led to unprecedented industry-academic integration with a number of commercial research programs. Rasmus also spearheaded successful CERAIS initiatives that lead to commercial partners opening local offices at the Purdue Research Park to further leverage and integrate their daily R&D and cyber management practices into CERIAS.