Prof Uche M. Mbanaso

Prof. Mbanaso is a leading Cybersecurity subject matter expert (SME), and currently the Executive Director, Centre for Cyberspace Studies, Professor, Cybersecurity and Computing at Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Nigeria; a visiting academic at the LINK Centre, Wits University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

He remains a key player in the development of Cybersecurity, in particular development of Cybersecurity Frameworks in Nigeria. His research and scholarly works include a TETFund sponsored research project on Cybersecurity and Critical National Infrastructure (CNI), and has published over 25 research journal articles, and 30 conference proceedings in the areas of cybersecurity - information and communications security.

He possess the aptitude for mentoring Computing and Cybersecurity mentees – especially undergraduate and graduate students. Prof. Mbanaso is reputable for supervising research candidates with well-developed pedagogical skills. He is actively mentoring young students in tech skills up programmes for dynamic cybersecurity, embedded programming, as well as robotics.

Prof. Mbanaso earned an undergraduate qualification in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Nigeria, MSc in Information Technology from the UK, and PhD Communications and Information Security from the UK. He has delivered outstanding Cyber – related and operational intelligence papers to conferences, workshops, seminars, etc. He is a member of ISACA (USA), IEEE (USA), The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK, Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) and EC-Council certified.