His research in computing and technology has been funded by National Park Service and the Department of Homeland Security. Most recently, Dr. Byrd has been studying interdisciplinary knowledge transfer, mobile learning, and the use of virtual machines in educational environments. In addition to university service, he volunteers help to non-profit organizations and individuals having difficulties with applications and web or networking technologies and is an Information Technology academic program evaluator (PEV) for the accrediting body, ABET.