He received his PhD from the University of Florida, where he was advised by Professor Kevin Butler in the study of computer security and collaborated regularly with MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Adam has conducted research on a range of security topics including operating system design, network communications, and peripheral devices. He is best known for his work in the area of data provenance, where he investigates the construction and application of secure provenance-aware systems. He has received the NSF CISE Research Initiation Initiative award, NSF CAREER Award, and the ACM SIGSAC Dissertation runner-up.