Adam Porter

Adam Porter, Ph.D., is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park and has served since 2015 as executive director of the Fraunhofer USA Center Mid-Atlantic, an applied research center affiliated with UMCP. Porter has over 35 years of experience in computer science and software engineering with an emphasis on the development of algorithms, methods and tools for software specification, development and validation. He has published more than 150 technical articles and his work has been supported by a wide variety of funding agencies and companies, including the National Science Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, U.S. National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, AT&T, Motorola, Sun Microsystems, Apple, IBM and Microsoft.