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Marcus Fisher

Marcus Fisher is an assistant professor for the Information Systems Management (ISM) program at Fairmont State University. In addition to advising students, Professor Fisher focuses on advancing the University in areas such as application development and testing, big data analytics, intelligent systems and machine learning, robotics and automation, embedded systems, and information assurance and cyber security. Professor Fisher’s areas of research include systems and software engineering, intelligent systems, application testing, cyber security, verification and validation and embedded systems. 

Mr. Fisher also serves as the Chief Engineer for the NASA Independent Verification & Validation (IV&V) Program. Mr. Fisher is responsible for defining and developing best engineering practices, performing special studies for the advancement of NASA’s technologies, integrating best engineering practices into the development of NASA missions, and capturing and integrating lessons learned for the Agency. Mr. Fisher is also a Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Senior Technical Fellow where he advises NASA in areas of leading and future technologies that enable the Nation’s dominance in space exploration. 

Mr. Fisher has over 20 years’ experience leading and managing more than 32 NASA projects with yearly management responsibilities totaling more than $42 million. Mr. Fisher has initiated STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) educational outreach programs, such as the NASA IV&V Space Flight Design Challenge, to raise awareness and advance the West Virginia education systems’ programs that support space science and space flight. Mr. Fisher developed the Iron Falcon project that infused cyber security training into the public school systems. Mr Fisher also led the IV&V Program’s international collaborations NASA has with the European Space Agency (ESA) and Japanese Space Agency (JAXA). Mr. Fisher has also established the cybersecurity capabilities and strategies utilized at NASA that are additionally applied at various other Federal agencies (i.e. Department of Energy). 

Prior to 2012, Mr. Fisher was an assistant professor at West Virginia University’s Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering for twelve years. He developed the curriculum for the University’s software verification and validation courses and is the author of a widely used textbook on the subject published in 2007, Software Verification And Validation: An Engineering And Scientific Approach, Springer Verlag, ISBN 0387327258. Mr. Fisher taught courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level, such as introduction to software engineering, software verification and validation, embedded systems, engineering design and analysis, programming and problem solving using C++. 

Mr. Fisher earned his B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science at West Virginia University in 1999 and 2001 respectively, where he also earned his B.S. in Wildlife and Fisheries Biology in 1996.

Mr. Fisher lives with his beautiful wife, Hailie, and their three children in the Morgantown area.