Dr. Burke graduated from NCSU CSC department with a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science in 2004 also receiving Bachelor of Science degrees in Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering that same year. He continued to graduate school and received his Masters of Science in Computer Engineering and his Doctorate of Science in Aerospace Engineering in 2007 and 2010 respectfully. During his time at NCSU (1999-2010) Dr. Burke was initially the team lead and later the graduate advisor for the NCSU Aerial Robotics Club in the Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering department, which competed every year (2002-present) at the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) Student Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Competition hosted by US Navy’s Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) in Southern Maryland. It was through his involvement with the NCSU Aerial Robotics Club and AUVSI that Dr. Burke’s doctoral research was funded by NAVAIR to investigate alternate methods for addressing airworthiness of small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS).After completing his doctorate work in 2010 Dr. Burke began working for NAVAIR at Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Southern Maryland. Leveraging his previous UAS experience Dr. Burke joined the staff of Rear Admiral Shannon, the Program Executive Officer of Unmanned Systems and Strike Weapons [PEO(U&W)]. Dr. Burke became the primary technical lead for the Common Standards & Interoperability (CSI) office for PEO(U&W). CSI was tasked with improving the digital interoperability of Naval UAS through the development of technical standards. Dr. Burke stood up and chaired the Naval UAS Interface Control Working Group (ICWG) as a cross-functional standards body to develop these standards and made the ICWG open to industry participation. The Naval UAS ICWG developed numerous Naval Interoperability Profiles (NIOP) standards and demonstrated their capabilities under Dr. Burke’s leadership. These standards are currently in use by US Navy programs. In addition to the interoperability work for the US Navy he also represented the US as a member of the US delegation to NATO’s Joint Capability Group UAS (JCGUAS) where he became the chair and custodian of NATO’s UAS Command & Control Standardization Agreement (STANAG) 4586. in 2014 Dr. Burke received a Meritorious Civilian Service Award, the third highest civilian award in the US Navy, for his work supporting UAS Interoperability and PEO(U&W).Starting soon after moving to Maryland in 2010 Dr. Burke became the NAVAIR Mentor to the Great Mills High School Robotics Team. This robotics team was one of the few high schools competing against universities in the AUVSI Student UAS Competition. Additionally Dr. Burke joined the board for the local AUVSI Seafarers Chapter that runs that competition to help ensure that the event continued to have support from PEO(U&W). Dr. Burke greatly enjoyed mentoring and decided to start teaching in 2014 for University of Maryland College Park (UMD-CP). UMD-CP has an Educational Partnership Agreement (EPA) with NAVAIR that allows students from the local community college to transition into a COOP program where they receive a UMD Mechanical Engineering B.S. degree and work part-time at Patuxent River NAS as NAVAIR Pathways interns. As part of this EPA half of their courses are taught by NAVAIR engineers at the local higher education center. Dr. Burke has taught Reliability Engineering (ENRE 489G), a senior level elective, for four years as part of this program. NAVAIR is now entering into a expansion of their EPA with UMD to establish a similar COOP option for Computer Engineering. Dr. Burke is currently developing a senior level course in Cybersecurity that he will start teaching in the fall of 2018.In June 2014 Vice Admiral Dunaway, NAVAIR commander, established the NAVAIR Cyber Warfare Detachment (CYBERDET) to be the center of excellence for cyber warfare in NAVAIR to assist all NAVAIR programs and sites with addressing cyber warfare issues and being the command representative to other US Navy commands, US Government agencies, and industry partners. Dr. Burke was chosen to become the Technical Director of the CYBERDET becoming the lead technical subject matter expert on Cyber Warfare across all ten NAVAIR sites and more than 26,000 employees. Dr. Burke has served as the Technical Director for the NAVAIR CYBERDET for the last three years where he has been one of the leading experts in cyber warfare for the US Navy and Department of Defense. It is this capacity that Dr. Burke has leveraged most strongly his computer science background from NCSU CSC in the day to day business of defending our weapon systems from cyber attack. Most recently Dr. Burke has been nominated to take on the role of Director of CYBERDET, a Senior Leader level position, which positions him to be one of the national leaders in cyber warfare for the United States.Dr. Burke’s success has been predicated on the skills and knowledge that he learned at NCSU especially in the Computer Science department. He has shown the technical expertise and leadership values that are core to NCSU CSC.