Advisory Council

The NYU Cyber Fellows Advisory Council is comprised of leaders from industry, the public sector, and academia, who provide valuable insights and recommendations to advance the education and workforce readiness of cybersecurity masters students.

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Members

Elizabeth Agosto

Executive Director, Global COO, Information Security Division, BNY Mellon

Omkhar Arasaratnam

Investor, Advisor and Engineering Director, Google

Gerard Brady

Senior Advisor and Former CISO, Morgan Stanley

Geoff Brown

VP, Global Intelligence Platform, Recorded Future and Former CISO, City of New York; Head, NYC Cyber Command

Dave Burg

Americas Cybersecurity Advisory Leader, Ernst & Young

Tim Byrd

CISO/Board Member, Former EVP and CISO, TIAA

Mike Cena

VP, Head of Cyber Security, A+E Networks

Edna M. Conway

VP, Chief Security & Risk Officer, Azure, Microsoft Corporation

Kirsten Davies

Global Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Unilever

Laura Deaner

VP & Chief Information Security Officer, Northwestern Mutual

Mikhail Falkovich

Chief Information Security Officer, Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc.

Oliver Friedrichs

Former Vice President, Security Products, Splunk

Anne Higgins

Former SVP, Strategy, Governance and Oversight Regulatory Relations, Wells Fargo

Elad Hod

Business Information Security Officer, Bloomberg LP

Murray W. Kenyon

VP, Cybersecurity Partnership Executive, U.S. Bank

Stacey Romanello

Regional Information Security Officer, Royal Bank of Canada

Rick Scot

VP, Cyber Crime Protection Advisory Services, Bank of America

Rinki Sethi

VP & CISO at Bill.com, Former CISO, TWITTER

Myrna Soto

CEO & Founder, Senior Technology Executive, Corporate Board Member

Kylie Watson

Managing Director, CISO, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation

Nasir Memon

Head of Advisory Council
Vice Dean for Academics and Student Affairs, Professor

Nasir Memon is Vice Dean for Academics and Student Affairs and a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. He is an affiliate faculty at the Computer Science department in NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and department head of NYU Tandon Online. He introduced cyber security studies to NYU Tandon in 1999, making it one of the first schools to implement the program at the undergraduate level. He is a co-founder of NYU's Center for Cyber Security (CCS) at New York as well as NYU Abu Dhabi. He is the founder of the OSIRIS Lab, CSAW, the NYU Tandon Bridge Program as well as the NYU Cyber Fellows program at NYU. He has received several best paper awards and awards for excellence in teaching. He has been on the editorial boards of several journals, and was the Editor-In-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Information Security and Forensics. He is an IEEE Fellow and an SPIE Fellow for his contributions to image compression and media security and forensics. His research interests include digital forensics, biometrics, data compression, network security and security and human behavior.