Adam Porter has been co-executive director of the University of Maryland Institute for Health Computing in North Bethesda, Maryland, since 2024. He is a professor of computer science at the University of Maryland and has served since 2015 as executive director of the Fraunhofer USA Center Mid-Atlantic, an applied research center affiliated with UMD. 

Porter has over 35 years of experience in computer science and software engineering with an emphasis on the development of algorithms, methods and tools for software specification, development and validation. He holds joint appointments in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies and is affiliated with the university’s Institute for Systems Research and the Applied Research Laboratory Institute for Intelligence and Security.

Porter’s work has been supported by a wide variety of funding agencies and companies, including the National Science Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, U.S. National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, AT&T, Motorola, Sun Microsystems, Apple, IBM and Microsoft. His current research focuses on software and systems engineering for artificial intelligence (AI)-powered systems and AI applications for software and systems engineers.

He has published more than 150 technical articles. Before joining the UMD faculty in 1991, Porter received his M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Irvine in 1988 and 1991 respectively, and his B.S. in computer science from California State University, Dominguez Hills in 1986.