Joel Rasmus

Joel Rasmus is Managing Director at Purdue University's CERIAS; North America’s premier interdisciplinary institute for cyber and cyber-physical systems, with a research focus spanning security, resiliency, privacy, autonomy and trustworthy AI. He's the architect of the CERIAS strategic partnership program, fostering industry tech transfer, collaborative research, and workforce development. Joel also established the Cyber + X program, encouraging interdisciplinary collaboration to address industry-sponsored projects. In partnership with Sandia National Labs, he pioneered SOL4CE, a cyber-range for large-scale cyber and cyber-physical systems. Joel's efforts in academia-industry collaboration have earned him multiple Purdue engagement awards.