Mr. Breaux is a 2006-09 IBM Ph.D. Fellowship recipient, a 2008-09 NCSU Preparing the Professoriate Fellowship recipient, the 2006-07 Walker H. Wilkinson Research Ethics Fellowship recipient, a 2005-06 CISCO Information Assurance Scholarship recipient and he has received undergraduate awards for academic excellence from programs funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and National Science Foundation. Mr. Breaux was a Visiting Scholar at CERIAS at Purdue University in summer 2006, an intern at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in summer 2005 and an intern at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in summers 2003, 2004. Mr. Breaux has several publications in ACM and IEEE-sponsored journals and conference and workshop proceedings.

Mr. Breaux traces his passion for exploring the mind back to teachings in culture cosmology by Dr. Susan Rasmussen and Dr. Quetzil Casteñeda at the University of Houston. Mr. Breaux was first introduced to the field of Requirements Engineering by his undergraduate adviser, Dr. Stephen Fickas, at the University of Oregon whose influence includes requirements monitoring, requirements negotiation and ephemeral requirements. Under the guidance of Dr. Annie Antón, Mr. Breaux has extended his interests to include the societal impact of system requirements on privacy and security in their "ground-breaking" work to acquire software requirements from policies and U.S. federal and state regulations.