Dr. Mike Bowman is currently an Assistant Professor of Telecommunications System Management at Murray State University where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Telecommunications, Information/Network/Computer Security, and Computer Science. He retired from the United States Army in 2005 at the rank of Colonel after 26 years of service. From 1993 to 2005 his primary responsibility was the management of large scale research, development, and acquisition programs for military communications, command and control, and intelligence systems His fields of expertise include information system security, communication systems and networking, artificial intelligence, knowledge engineering, and military command-control-communications and computer (C4) systems. Dr. Bowman earned a PhD in 2002 from George Mason University with study and research for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) investigating advanced methods in artificial intelligence, knowledge engineering and intelligent agents for real-world, complex problem solving in the military domain.

Dr. Bowman is the Chair and project leader for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) International Science and Technology workgroup investigating Tactical Communications in Urban Operations (IST 067). He is the Principle Investigator (PI) for a U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to align Murray State University computer/network/information security courses with Federal Information Assurance education guidelines, and a participant in the Man-Portable Tactical Operations Center (MITOC) Department of Homeland Security funded research project being conducted by the Kentucky Homeland Security University Consortium. His publications include articles in AI Magazine, Military Review, and Crosstalk; a book chapter on the development of intelligent agents; and a variety of papers in conference proceedings and professional journals. Dr. Bowman is a member of ITERA, IEEE, ACM, AAAI, and AFCEA.