Additionally he is co-founder and member of the board of directors for HawkEye 360, a startup company focused on space-based RF analytics. Prior to joining Virginia Tech in 2010, he served as a senior researcher at the Laboratory for Telecommunications Sciences, a defense research lab at the University of Maryland, where he led research programs in software-defined and cognitive radio. Dr. Clancy received his B.S. in Computer Engineering from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and has over 150 peer-reviewed technical publications. His current research interests include cognitive communications and spectrum security.