Director, Center for Cyberspace Research (CCR);
Graduate School of Engineering and Management, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio

Dr. Richard A. Raines is Director, Center for Cyberspace Research (CCR) and Department of Defense Transformation Chair, Graduate School of Engineering and Management, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from The Florida State University in 1985, with honors. He earned a Master of Science degree in Computer Engineering from AFIT in 1987 and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1994.

Dr. Raines is the founding Director of CCR, a National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security Center of Academic Excellence and a National Science Foundation CyberCorp institution. He has authored or co-authored more than 90 technical publications in the areas of computer and satellite communications, communications theory, vulnerabilities of communication systems, and cyber security. Dr. Raines is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of Eta Kappa Nu.