Kevin Kwiat, Ph.D., is an adjunct professor at SUNY Poly starting in 1999. He is formerly a Principal Computer Engineer with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and has more than 34 years of service and has been awarded five patents during that time. While at AFRL, he conducted research and development in a wide scope of areas: high-reliability microprocessors; benchmarking of experimental designs; distributed processing systems; assured communications; FPGA-based computing; fault tolerance; survivable systems; game theory; cyber-security; and cloud computing. His PhD is in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University.

He is co-founder and leader of Haloed Sun TEK of Sarasota, Florida, which is an LLC specializing in technology transfer and has joined forces with the Commercial Applications for Early Stage Advanced Research (CAESAR) Group.