Background of Jim Davis
Dr. James Davis is the first Vice Provost for IT and CIO for Iowa State University. He was named CIO July 1, 2004, and received the title Vice Provost for IT and CIO July 1, 2007.
Davis was previously an Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) faculty member since 1984. He has also served Iowa State University as the director of Academic Information Technologies, interim chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering, chair of the Information Assurance graduate program, and as the Associate Director of the Information Assurance Center.
He holds several teaching awards, is a Miller Faculty Fellow at Iowa State, and has been active in Project LEARN, a faculty-driven in-service program that mentors and teaches faculty to enhance student learning through innovative teaching methodologies.
His research areas are in information security, specifically in security curriculum development and wireless mobile tactical networks. His teaching included courses on computer system security, legal and ethical issues in information assurance, operating systems, and embedded computer systems.
Davis helped create the Information Assurance Center at Iowa State as well as the Information Assurance graduate degree program. From 2001-2005, he led Iowa State's National Science Foundation-supported program to develop cohorts of students studying computer security.
A member of the academic and federal security community, Davis is also an active participant in conferences, workshops, and research panels. He is a founding editorial board member of IEEE Security and Privacy, and is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Information and Computer Security. He also serves on the advisory board for the Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education, and participates in organizing program committees for security conferences.
Dr. James Davis received his degrees from Iowa State University earning a B.S. in 1975 in Computer Science, an M.S. in 1982 in Electrical Engineering, and a Ph.D. in 1984 in Computer Science.
