Prof. David Hay, CSO, BBT Live, Head of cyber research center, Hebrew University

Prof. David Hay is the Chief Scientist of BBT.live and the chair of the Federmann Cybersecurity Research Center in the Rachel and Selim Benin School of Computer Science and Engineering, and a co-director of the Fraunhofer Project Center for Cybersecurity at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

He received his B.A. (summa cum laude) and PhD degrees in computer science from the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, in 2001 and 2007, respectively.

In addition, he was with IBM Haifa Research Labs, Haifa, Israel; Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA, USA; the Electronic Department, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy; and the Electrical Engineering Department with Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. In 2010, he co-founded (with Prof. Brembler-Barr) the DEEPNESS lab, focusing on deep packet inspection in next-generation network devices.