Overview

Dr. Yair Levy is a Professor of Information Systems and Cybersecurity at the College of Engineering and Computing, at Nova Southeastern University, the Director of the Center for e-Learning Security Research (CeLSR), and chair of the Information Security Faculty Group at the college along with serving as the director of the Ph.D. program in Information Assurance. He joined the university in 2003, was promoted to an Associate Professor in 2007, and to full Professor in 2012. During the mid to late 1990s, Dr. Levy assisted NASA to develop e-learning platforms as well as manage Internet and Web infrastructures. He earned his undergraduate degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology). He received his Masters of Business Administration (MBA) with Management Information Systems (MIS) concentration and Ph.D. in MIS from Florida International University. He heads the Levy CyLab, which conducts innovative research from the human-centric lens of four key research areas Cybersecurity, User-authentication, Privacy, and Skills (CUPS), as well as their interconnections. He authored over 60 articles, three book chapters, one book, and his publications have been cited for over 1,400 times by other scholarly research. Dr. Levy has been an active member of the US Secret Service (USSS)’s – Miami Electronic Crimes Task Force (MECTF) and The South Florida Cybercrime Working Group (SFCWG). He was trained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on various topics, and actively serves as a member on of the FBI/InfraGard, and consults the FBI/Cyber Task Force (CTF). Dr. Levy serves on the national Joint Task Force of Cybersecurity Education, as well as other national initiatives related to cybersecurity workforce, education, and research. He is also a frequently invited keynote speaker at national and international meetings, as well as regular media interviews as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on cybersecurity topics.