He was previously a senior lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Texas A&M University. His research interests are distributed computer systems and algorithms, reliable and secure communication protocols, reliable system design and validation, and IC yield enhancement and assessment. He was formerly with the United States Air Force and Caelum, Inc. He has served as the publicity chair of the 1997 and 1998 IEEE International Workshops on Memory Technology, Design, and Testing. Meyer received a BSc and a PhD from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is a member of IEEE and the Computer Society.