His research focuses on the intersection of problems in systems engineering with Big Data, Cloud Computing, and issues of reliability, performability, availability, security and privacy. Prior to joining Miami, Dr. Rozier has served as a research scientist at NASA Langley Research Center, and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and as a Fellow at IBM Almaden Research Center. His work in Big Data and systems engineering has been the subject of numerous awards, including being named an Frontiers of Engineering Education Faculty Member by the National Academy of Engineering in 2013, and an Eric & Wendy Schmidt Data Science for Social Good Faculty Fellow at the University of Chicago for Summer 2014.