Dr. Eric W. Burger is CTO of the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative and holds appointments as Research Professor of ECE and Research Professor of Public Policy at Virginia Tech. He has lived experience in government, as the Assistant Director of Telecommunications and Cybersecurity in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and as the Chief Technology Officer of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. He has considerable industry experience, serving on the board of the Public Interest Registry and the advisory boards of Allied Intelligence, Tresic, and Rampart Communications.
Prior to academia, he was CTO of several publicly traded and private equity network equipment manufacturers, having five exits or turn-arounds in seven years, with his start in telecommunications at MCI and Cable & Wireless. Dr. Burger is a Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the AAAS, Life Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, and Life Distinguished Member of the ACM. He received his SBEE, MBA, and PhD in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and Illinois Institute of Technology.
