MAJ Joseph Spracklen

MAJ Joe Spracklen is an Instructor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the United States Military Academy.

He graduated with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from USMA in 2010 and commissioned as an Air Defense Artillery officer. As an ADA officer he served as a platoon leader, executive officer, and tactical director for 5-52 ADA Battalion, 11th ADA Brigade, including one deployment to Qatar in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. As a Captain, he completed one overseas tour to Korea where he was a battle captain for 6-52 ADA Battalion.

After transitioning to the Cyber Branch, he was among the first officers to attend the Cyber Officer Transition Course at Ft. Gordon, GA. He was assigned to the Cyber Protection Brigade, where he served as a mission element lead, assistant operations officer, and company commander. Following another branch transfer to FA49 (ORSA) he was assigned to ARCYBER Headquarters and served as the Deputy Director of Assessments.  

MAJ Spracklen holds a Master's degree from Georgia Tech in Computer Science and is a Ph.D Candidate in Computer Science at the University of Texas at San Antonio. His research interests include hallucinations in large language models, mechanistic interpretability, and using LLMs to exploit, discover, and defend vulnerabilities in cyberspace.

Joe is a native of Washington State and enjoys sports of all kinds, particularly hockey, golf, and baseball. He also enjoys astronomy, astrophotography, wildlife photography, running, computer games, and anything else involving computers.