Mehdi Karimi, Ph.D.

Mehdi Karimi, Ph.D. has a diverse work experience spanning from 2011 to present. From 2011 to 2013, they were a SoC Physical Design Engineer at PMC-Sierra, a Firmware Engineer at GE from 2013 to 2014, and a Sr. Embedded Systems Engineer at Schneider Electric from 2014 to 2015. Mehdi then went on to pursue their Doctor of Philosophy at The University of British Columbia from 2015 to 2018, during which time they were elected president of the graduate student society and led the drone project. In 2018, they were a Faculty at BCIT Applied Research, a Sr. Firmware Security Engineer at Sierra Wireless from 2019 to 2020, a Sr. Application Security Engineer at Sophos in 2020, and currently serves as a Fractional CTO at NuBinary and Director of Cyber Security at dotCMS. During their tenure at dotCMS, they have led CVE Numbering Authorities (CNA) onboarding, built a Live trust report, and led the governance of SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certificates. At NuBinary, they have been responsible for business strategy and development for security and privacy vertical line, software security and hardware directorship in IoT, Application, Web, and Cloud services, and policy and compliance writing based on NIST 800-53 and NIST 7621.

Mehdi Karimi, Ph.D. obtained their Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of British Columbia in 2020. Mehdi had previously obtained their Master of Applied Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of British Columbia in 2012, and their Bachelor of Applied Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of British Columbia in 2009. Additionally, they have obtained several certifications, including Structuring Machine Learning Projects from Coursera in 2022, Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization and Optimization from Coursera in 2021, Neural Networks and Deep Learning from Coursera in 2021, Machine Learning from Coursera in 2021, Amazon EC2 Deep Dive from LinkedIn in 2021, Amazon EC2 Fundamentals from LinkedIn in 2021, and IEEE Linux Workshop Instructor from IEEE in 2013.