Willis Marti received his Master's degree in Computer Engineering from Stanford University in 1978. He is the Director of Networking and Chief Information Security Officer for Texas A&M and serves as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, where he teaches an upper level course in Networking and Distributed Processing.

He is a graduate of the United States Military Academy, 1974, and was a Commissioned Officer (Lieutenant and Captain) in the Air Defense Artillery. Following ten years of active service, Mr. Marti built large networks in industry where he held project management positions with companies including TRW, Martin Marietta and Sytek. He joined Texas A&M in 1990.

Mr. Marti has published on distributed platforms, distributed operating systems, fault tolerance, and security and reliability issues. He has served as expert witness in criminal and civil cases for computer forensics, software engineering, telecommunications, embedded systems and system performance.