Ben Nassi

Ben Nassi is a Jacobs Urban Tech Hub Fellow and Postdoctoral Research at Cornell Tech. Recipient of Pwnie Award 2023 for the Best Cryptographic Attack, his research has often been presented at prime conferences such as S&P, CCS, BlackHat, RSA, Unicomp, and DEF Con to name a few. Ben is a luminary in his field who is now available to share his unparalleled expertise when booked as a speaker.

Highly educated, Ben possesses a BSc in Computer Science, MSc in Software Engineering and a PhD in Security and Privacy in the IoT Era from Ben-Gurion University. His career started out as a Researcher at the Deutsche Telekom Innovation Labs later becoming a Software Developer at the Deutsche Telekom Innovation Labs at BGU. Ben has also worked as an Intern at Google – a respectable addition to his glowing resume.

A Cyber Security and Machine Learning Principal Research Manager at CBG, Ben is also a Review Board member at BlackHat. His work is often featured in prominent publications such as WIRED, Motherboard, MIT Technology Review, Ars Technica, and Business Insider. Ben has 10 years’ worth of experience in offensive security and usually uses his platform as a speaker to demonstrate secret key recovery and audible speech recovery. Ben is also the person who discovered an innovative way to detect targeted drone activity in which a drone is illicitly filming a victim – an incredibly pertinent technology in our world today.

Ben’s work is focused on increasing interaction between systems and users in the physical and digital worlds. As a speaker, he is known for myth-busting misconceptions related to the security and privacy of systems and explaining recent advancements in deploying AI-powered cyber-physical systems. If you are looking for a speaker on topics such as cybersecurity, AI, automotive, drones, IoT devices and privacy, look no further than Ben Nassi.