Eric Burger is Research Professor of NextG Security and Affiliated Research Professor of Public Policy at Virginia Tech. Prior to Virginia Tech, he was Research Professor of Computer Science and the founding Director of the NSF Security and Software Engineering Research Center at Georgetown University. He served in the Federal Government as the Assitant Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and as the CTO of the Federal Communications Commission. In industry he was CTO of Neustar, DCTO  and VP Engineering at BEA Systems, and CTO of a number of public and private network equipment manufacturers. He started in telecommunications at MCI and Cable & Wireless.
 
Dr. Burger currently serves on the board of the Public Interest Registry and the Foundation for Resilient Society, as well as a number of other companies. He is a past board member of the Internet Society. He has published over 20 IETF, 3GPP, and W3C documents.