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About the Instructor

Cybersecurity faculty. AI practitioner. Workforce educator.

I've spent more than a decade at the intersection of cybersecurity, education, and applied AI — teaching working professionals how to use AI safely, productively, and with measurable outcomes. My work spans university faculty appointments, MIT Professional Education programs, government and enterprise consulting, and keynote stages across the world.

Biography

A practitioner-first approach to teaching AI.

My career began in cybersecurity operations — incident response, threat modeling, and building security programs for organizations that couldn't afford to get it wrong. That foundation shapes everything I teach today: AI is powerful, but only useful when it's deployed with the same rigor we expect from any production system.

Today I serve as faculty for cybersecurity programs, contribute to MIT Professional Education's No-Code AI and Machine Learning track, and run workforce-education engagements for organizations that need their teams fluent in AI within weeks — not years.

I'm a certified AI Consultant (USIDHR), a frequent conference speaker, and an active writer on the practical, secure adoption of AI in regulated industries.

Conferences & Talks

On stage, in the room, doing the work.

Keynote — AI in Cybersecurity — RSA Conference
RSA Conference · 2024
Keynote — AI in Cybersecurity
Panel — Workforce AI Adoption — MIT Professional Education Summit
MIT Professional Education Summit · 2024
Panel — Workforce AI Adoption
Workshop — Secure Prompt Engineering — BSides
BSides · 2023
Workshop — Secure Prompt Engineering
Guest Lecture — Applied AI for Educators — University Symposium
University Symposium · 2023
Guest Lecture — Applied AI for Educators
Videos

Talks, lectures and short lessons.

How professionals should actually use AI in 2026
Cybersecurity foundations for AI deployments

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