Dr. Jacobson joined the faculty in 1985 after receiving a PhD degree in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University. Dr. Jacobson is currently the director of Iowa State University's Information Assurance Center, which has been recognized by the National Security Agency as a charter Center of Academic Excellence for Information Assurance Education. He is also director of the Internet-Scale Event and Attack Generation Environment (ISEAGE), a U.S. Department of Justice funded test lab, which is the only lab in the world designed to simulate, investigate and recreate the largest cyber attacks over the Internet.