Instructors
Prof David Yau
Professor, ISTD
SUTD
David Yau obtained the BSc (first class honors) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and MS and PhD. from the University of Texas at Austin, all in computer science. Since 2013, he has been Professor in the Information Systems Technology and Design pillar of the Singapore University of Technology and Design. He served as Distinguished Scientist at the Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore (a research center of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), where he was also Cybersecurity Program Director. Prior to Singapore, he was Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor (Computer Science) at Purdue University (West Lafayette).
David is interested in different aspects of networked computing systems, including protocol design and implementation, security and privacy, quality of service (QoS), network incentives, and wireless sensor networks.
Hadi Ghanbari
Assistant Professor, Aalto University School of Business
Hadi Ghanbari is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at Aalto University School of Business (Finland). Simultaneously, he is a research fellow of the FinEst Centre for Smart Cities (Estonia). Before joining Aalto University in 2019, he was a member of the Information Security Management research group at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland). He has been a project manager in several pan-European cybersecurity research and innovation projects. He had also served as a visiting researcher at the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software (Ireland) and the Software Centre (Sweden). Before joining academia in 2010, he had worked in several positions in the IT industry.
Hadi mostly conducts empirical research on sociotechnical aspects of digital innovation, with a focus on information security, Technical Debt, and stakeholders’ competencies and behaviour. More recently, he has been studying the role of urban analytics in developing sustainable and resilient digital services. He is especially interested in studying the security and privacy concerns and consequences of such digital innovations for smart city stakeholders.