Jules White

Jules White is an Assistant Professor of Cyber-physical Systems in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. He is the director of the Mobile Application computinG, optimizatoN, and secUrity Methods (MAGNUM) group at Virginia Tech. The MAGUM group is focused on developing next-generation mobile cyber-physical security and sensing systems with commodity mobile devices. His research through the MAGNUM group is funded by a variety of industry, government, and DoD sponsors, such as the Air Force Research Laboratories, Army Research Office, National Science Foundation, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, Siemens Corporate Research, and the Virginia Tech Applied Research Center. Previous research projects directed by Dr. White have led to startups, such as SplitSecnd, which recently received a $1 million round of venture capital funding. Research projects have also been successfully transitioned to industry partners, such as Lockheed Martin and Siemens AG. Other research efforts have led to widely used opensource tools, such as the Generic Eclipse Modeling System that was produced by Dr. White, incorporated into the Eclipse Foundation, and distributed through their worldwide mirrors. Before joining Virginia Tech, Dr. White was a Research Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University in the Institute for Software Integrated Systems. At Vanderbilt, Dr. White led the integration of smartphone-based topics into the undergraduate curriculum. Prior to Vanderbilt, Dr. White worked for IBM’s Boston Innovation Center where he worked with IBM’s TJ Watson Research Center on developing rule engines and constraint-optimization systems for fleet scheduling. Dr. White received his BA in Computer Science from Brown University, his MS in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University, and his PhD in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University. He serves as a consultant to industry on mobile computing and works with clients, such as Apple. Dr. White is also currently a Visiting Research Scientist at the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute.