Jennifer Linvill
Title
Assistant Professor
Department
Education
Ph.D., Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Research Areas
policy, organizational practice, and institutional coordination, artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, high performance computing, microelectronics, and research security
Notable Awards
Dr. Linvill's contributions to workforce development research have been recognized through several prestigious awards, including the John P. Lisack Early-Career Engagement Award (2023–2024), Outstanding Faculty in Discovery in the Department of Technology Leadership & Innovation (Spring 2023 and Spring 2024), and the Purdue University Bravo Award-a Department of Defense-funded SCALE Recognition Award for her contributions to the Scalable Asymmetric Lifecycle Engagement (SCALE) Program and nanoHUB (Spring 2024).
Biography
Jennifer S. Linvill, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Technology Leadership & Innovation at Purdue University. Dr. Linvill is a visionary whose work centers on addressing the organizational challenges of future work and learning, with a particular emphasis on workforce development at the intersection of policy, practice, and institutional coordination, with particular emphasis on emerging and highly technical domains. Her scholarship engages organizational communication, leadership, STEM education, and national security and defense, reflecting an intra-disciplinary approach that blends discovery with engaged application.
Dr. Linvill's nationally recognized scholarship addresses one of the most pressing organizational challenges of the 21st century: how to design, align, and scale workforce development systems capable of supporting highly technical, security-sensitive, and rapidly evolving domains of work. Her research sits at the intersection of policy, organizational practice, and institutional coordination, with particular emphasis on emerging and strategically critical sectors such as artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, high performance computing, microelectronics, and research security.
Dr. Linvill's nationally recognized scholarship addresses one of the most pressing organizational challenges of the 21st century: how to design, align, and scale workforce development systems capable of supporting highly technical, security-sensitive, and rapidly evolving domains of work. Her research sits at the intersection of policy, organizational practice, and institutional coordination, with particular emphasis on emerging and strategically critical sectors such as artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, high performance computing, microelectronics, and research security.
TOPIC AREAS
- Access Controls
- AI Safety
- Asset management
- Awareness/ Training / Education
- Cloud security
- Communications security
- Contingency Planning and disaster recovery
- Cyber conflict and warfare
- Cyber Ethics
- Policies
- Risk definition, assessment, and management
- Security culture
- Security management
- Standards, frameworks, and models
- Trust