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Merit's Research Vision

Network Research, Cybersecurity, and Technology Impact Research comprise the scope of our scholarship. Merit Research seeks to inspire and advance innovation in networking and cybersecurity. We also seek to increase the understanding of the societal impacts of technology, broadband and information access for the purpose of making the world a better place to learn, discover, work and live.

Our Research Mission

Merit Research will engage in practical and theoretical aspects of networking, cybersecurity, technology and broadband research in order to:

  • understand and advance the security and performance of Internet infrastructure,
  • support academic learning and experimentation,
  • enable cross-disciplinary, multi-institutional research collaborations,
  • bridge gaps between academic scholarship and practical application,
  • promote Internet freedom

Research Foci

Network Research:
Merit’s Research & Development program aims at performing ground-breaking research that would benefit Merit’s Members, Michigan and the society. The group currently focuses on Internet measurements that provide insights into the evolution of the Internet and the adoption of new protocols, on network security and privacy, and on the development of tools that can help network operators better monitor and secure their networks.

Technology Impact Research:
Merit’s Technology Impact Research program, founded in 2022, seeks to bridge the gap between academic scholarship and practical application to advance issues of technology understanding, information equity, and broadband connectivity through collaborative research initiatives.

Cybersecurity Research:
Merit’s Cybersecurity research aims to support an increased understanding of cyberinfrastructure resilience, situational awareness, intrusion detection, and also seeks to foster new transformative research in the areas of Internet freedom, threat intelligence using distributed network telescopes, research innovations into performing complex queries on high-speed Internet traffic, and understanding the security and privacy of secure tunneling technologies such as Virtual Private Networks.

Research Director

Dr. Pierrette Renée Dagg

Director of Research for Merit Network

Research Associate, Quello Center for  Media and Information Policy, Michigan State University

Dr. Pierrette Renée Dagg is the Director of Research for Merit Network at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She oversees Technology Impact Research and R&D. Pierrette is also a Digital Opportunities Fund Fellow at the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society where she is publishing case studies on broadband community champions. She serves as a Research Associate at the Quello Center for Media and Information Policy at Michigan State University and is an Adjunct Professor at Oakland Community College. Pierrette is also the Area Chair, Intellectual Property and Copyright, at the Pop Culture Association.

She joined Merit from Crain’s Detroit Business, where she held the position of Creative Director. She has been the recipient of multiple awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, PRism, the National Academy of Television Officers and Advisors and was also an Emmy nominee.

Pierrette graduated from the University of Toledo in Interdisciplinary Studies and earned the Magna Cum Laude distinction. She was also a member of Phi Kappa Phi and was named the Distinguished Graduating Scholar by the College of Adult and Lifelong Learning Pierrette completed her Executive MBA from the University of Toledo College of Business and Innovation in September 2018. Pierrette earned her Ph.D. at UT in the Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education and Education Technology in 2023. She is a member of the American Educational Research Association, the Michigan Council for Women in Technology, and the Pop Culture/American Culture Association.

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