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COL Jacoby is an Infantry Officer and an Academy Professor. He currently serves as the Computer Science Program Director. His Infantry assignments include Platoon, Bn./Bde. Staff Positions and three Company Commands with the 8th and 3rd Infantry Divisions in Germany, as well as in Iraq during Desert Storm. Following tours include assignments with the 1st Special Operation Detachment - Delta, in Ft. Bragg, NC; the German Army IT Headquarters in Cologne, Germany; and Microsoft Headquarters in Seattle, WA. His academic interests include network security and knowledge management, network-centric command and control systems, and protocols for robotics.

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2005
Ph.D., Software Engineering, Naval Postgraduate School, 2003
M.S., Telecommunications, University of Colorado, 1994
M.S., Information Systems, University of Colorado, 1994
M.S., Business Administration, Boston University, 1992
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, USMA, 1985

Military Education

1999 - Defense Language Institute* (German) (DLIFLC)
1998 - Command and General Staff College* (CGSC)
1995 - US Army Combined Arms & Services Staff School (CAS3)
1992 - Army Computer Science School (SIT)
1989 - Bradley Commander’s/Transition Course (BTC)
1989 - Infantry Officers Advanced Course (IOAC)
1986 - Ranger School (RTB)
1985 - Infantry Officers Basic Course (IOBC)
1983 - Airborne School (1/507)

* - Distinguished Graduate

Book(s)

Grant A. Jacoby and Luqi, A Metric Model for Intranet Portal Business Requirements, Storming Media Publishing, Washington, DC, June, 2004.

Journals

Grant A. Jacoby and Luqi, “Critical Business Requirements Model and Metrics for Intranet ROI,” Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, vol. 6, no.1, pp. 1-30, February 2005.
Grant A. Jacoby and Luqi, “Intranet Portal Model and Metrics: A Strategic Management Perspective,” IEEE Computing Society, IT Professional, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 37-44, January 2005.
Grant A. Jacoby and Nathaniel J. Davis IV, “Battery-Based Intrusion Detection: A Focus on Power for Security Assurance,” Journal of Space and Aeronautical Engineering, vol. 113, pp. 1818-1829, 2005.
Grant A. Jacoby, Randy Marchany and Nathaniel J. Davis IV, “Using Battery Constraints Within Mobile Hosts To Improve Network Security,” IEEE Security & Privacy, vol. 4, no. 5, pp. 40-49, September 2006.
Grant A. Jacoby and Luqi, “Intranet Model and Metrics,” vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 43-50, Communications of the ACM, October 2006.
Grant A. Jacoby and Nathaniel J. Davis IV, “Mobile Host-Based Intrusion Detection and Attack Identification,” IEEE Wireless Communications Journal, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 1-15, June, 2007.

Publications - In Preparation for Submission to Journal(s)

Publications - Refereed Conferences

Grant A. Jacoby, “Cyberisk: Flaws and Approaches in Computer-Communications,” Armed Forces Communications Electronics Association’s Excellence in Writing JC4I Award, US Army Command and General Staff College, June 1998, December 1998.
Grant A. Jacoby, Randy Marchany and Nathaniel J. Davis IV, “Battery-Based Intrusion Detection: a First Line of Defense,” Proceedings of the 5th IEEE SMC 2004 Information Assurance Workshop, pp. 1-8, June 2004.
Grant A. Jacoby and Luqi, “A Metric Model for Intranet Portals,” The 5th Intl Conference in Internet Computing, pp. 676-688, June 2004.
Grant A. Jacoby and Nathaniel J. Davis IV, “Battery-Based Intrusion Detection: A Focus on Power for Security Assurance,” Space and Aeronautical Engineering Power Conference, pp. 1-12, November 2004.
Grant A. Jacoby and Nathaniel J. Davis IV, “Battery-Based Intrusion Detection,” GLOBECOM 2004, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 2250-2255, December 2004.
Grant A. Jacoby, Thadeus Hickman, Stuart P. Warders, Barak Griffin, Aaron Darensburg and Daniel E. Castle, “Mobile Host-Based Intrusion Protection,” Proceedings from The 2006 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, pp. 207-212, June 2006.
Timothy K. Buennemeyer, Grant A. Jacoby, Randolph C. Marchany, and Joseph G. Tront, "Battery-Sensing Intrusion Protection System," Proceedings of the 7th IEEE SMC 2006 Information Assurance Workshop, pp. 176-183, June 2006.
Scot Ransbottom and Grant A. Jacoby, “Mobile Triage in Support of Effective Reporting (ER),” Military Communications Conference (MILCOM06), vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 277-283, October 2006.
Grant A. Jacoby, Scot Ransbottom, Thadeus Hickman, and Maxwell Potasznik, “Screening Mobile Devices to Examine Network Health,” 40th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, pp. 164-171, January 2007.
Grant A. Jacoby and Scot Ransbottom, “Effective Reporting (ER) for Mobile Host-based Security and Forensics,” 4th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC07), pp. 269-274, January 2007.
Shawn Mosley, Max Potasznik, Kyle Davis, Rock Stevens, Michael Ballmann, Bernard Ancheta, and Grant A. Jacoby, “FLIP - Forward Looking Intrusion Protection for Mobile Devices via Snort-Inline Hardware Implementation,” Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Wireless Networks, (ISBN 1-60132-039-6 [pages: 7]), June 2007.
Grant A. Jacoby and Shawn Mosley, “Mobile Security Using Separated Deep Packet Inspection,” 5th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC08), pp. 482-487, January 2008.
Shawn Mosley and Grant A. Jacoby, "A Reconfiguration of Mobile Clustering Architecture for Enhanced and Reliable Small Unit Computing,” IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE08), pp. 1019 - 1024, May 2008.
Grant A. Jacoby and David Chang, "Towards Command and Control Networking of Cooperative Autonomous Robotics for Military Applications (CARMA),” IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), pp. 815-820, May 2008.
Peter Renals and Grant A. Jacoby, "Blocking Skype through Deep Packet Inspection,” 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, pp. 1 - 5, January 2009.
Roy Ragsdale and Grant A. Jacoby, “Photo-Trail: Building Eye-Level-View Enhanced Navigation Technology,” 7th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC10), (5 pages), January 2010.
Luqi and Grant A. Jacoby, “Testing Adaptive Probabilistic Software Components in Cyber Systems,” 17th Monterey Workshop on Modeling, Development and Verification of Adaptive Computer Systems, (12 pages), March 2011.

Publications - Pending Acceptance to Refereed Conferences

Publications – In Preparation for Submission to Conference

Publications - Invited Articles

Grant Jacoby and Jean Blair, “An Undergraduate Success Story: A Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Integrative Experience,” IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 11-15, August 2006.
Roy Ragsdale and Grant Jacoby, “Build Your Own Street View Camera,” IEEE Spectrum Magazine, vol. 46, no. 10, pp. 20-21, October 2009.

Publications – Pedagogical

David Chang and Grant A. Jacoby, “Preparing a Fast-Track Education in Robotics,” The American Society for Engineering Education, (length 10 pages), June 2007.
David Chang, Grant A. Jacoby and Lisa Shay, “Educating Future Leaders in Robotics,” Assembly Magazine, pp. 40-43, November – December 2007.

Publications – Refereed Abstracts

Daniel E. Castle, Aaron Darensburg, Barak Griffin, Thadeus Hickman, Stuart P. Warders, and Grant A. Jacoby, "Gibraltar: A Mobile Host-Based Intrusion Protection System," National Conference on Undergraduate Research, pp. 1-8, April 2006.
William Lee, Gavin McMahon, Sami Ochi, James Roberts and Joseph Sagisi, David Chang and Grant A. Jacoby, “Hordes of Autonomous Ground and Aerial Robots (HAGAR),” National Conference on Undergraduate Research, pp. 1-8, April 2007.
Bernard Ancheta, Michael Ballmann, Kyle Davis, Shawn Mosely, Max Potasznik, Rock Stevens and Grant A. Jacoby, “Forward Looking Intrusion Protection (FLIP),” National Conference on Undergraduate Research, pp. 1-7, April 2007.

Publications – Technical Reports

Max Potasznik and Grant A. Jacoby, “Multi-threaded Agents for Multi-mobile Device Reporting,” Technical Report to the National Reconnaissance Organization, Information Technology Operations Center, Department of EE&CS, USMA, pp. 1-10, May 2006.

Publications – Graduate School-Related

Grant A. Jacoby and Harvey Gates, “Implications in Designing the Individual Soldier Computer,” a double Masters thesis in Information Systems and Telecommunications presented to the faculty of University of Colorado at Boulder, Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program and the College of Engineering and Applied Science, May 1994.
Grant A. Jacoby, “A Metric Model for Intranet Portal Business Requirements’” a dissertation in Software Engineering presented to the faculty of Naval Postgraduate School, Department of Computer Science, December 2003.
Grant A. Jacoby, “Battery-Based Intrusion Detection,” a dissertation in Electrical Engineering presented to the faculty of Virginia Tech, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 2005.

Analyzing, modeling, designing, and building of hardware and software systems
information assurance with emphasis in wireless security
knowledge management
network science
sensory fusion
protocols for robotics

Patents

Grant A. Jacoby, Nathanial V. Davis IV, and Randy Marchany, “Detecting Software Attacks by Monitoring Electric Power Consumption Patterns,” U.S. Provisional Patent No. 11/574,619, September 03, 2004 (Pat. Approved Sept. 2010).
Grant A. Jacoby, Paul Patterson, Timothy Schmoyer, Ronald Dodge, Shawn Mosley, Max Potasznik, Kyle Davis, Rock Stevens, Michael Ballmann, Bernard Ancheta, “Forward Looking Intrusion Protection for Mobile Devices,” U.S. Provisional Patent Request submitted June 2007.

Selected Funded Research

AY11 National Reconnaissance Organization -- Project: “Phototrail” Funding: $100,000, Role: Product Advisor for MIT Lincoln National Labs 2010-2011
AY07 National Reconnaissance Organization -- Project: “Forward Looking Intrusion Protection for Mobile Devices” and “Intranet Information Management of Disparate Systems,” Funding: $100,000, Role: Project Advisor, Period: 2007-2008.
AY06 National Reconnaissance Organization -- Project: “Multi-threaded Agents for Multi-mobile Device Reporting” and “Forward Looking Intrusion Protection,” Funding: $50,000, Role: Senior Technical and Project Advisor, Period: 2006-2007.

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