Dr. Ferhat Dikbiyik

Dr. Ferhat Dikbiyik and his team of data scientists and engineers provide research around cyber risk assessment, threat actors’ attack vectors, data analysis of cyber incidents, and machine-learning algorithms used in the Black Kite platform for better automation and computation. Ferhat has 15 years’ experience as a researcher in the risk-centered studies space. He received his MS and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Davis. During his Ph.D., he worked on disaster resiliency on telecom networks and critical infrastructures and later focused on cyber risk. Ferhat was a member of and led national and international projects on disaster risk, including cyber-attacks. He built a successful career in the scientific community with more than 40 papers published in scientific journals or presented at conferences and received more than 1,000 citations for those works. Ferhat switched his career from academia to startup businesses after holding an Assistant professor position in 2018. Since then, he has been studying threat actors, hacker mindset, cyber risk, and cyber attacks such as ransomware.

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