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Dr. Raheem Beyah Appointed Dean of College of Engineering at Georgia Tech

Dr. Raheem Beyah has been appointed dean of the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech.

Dr. Raheem BeyahDr. Raheem Beyah

Beyah is currently the school’s vice president for Interdisciplinary Research, executive director of the Online Master of Science in Cybersecurity program and Motorola Foundation Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Beyah holds a master’s and Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Georgia Tech and a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.

He is also the co-founder and board chair of industrial cybersecurity company Fortiphyd Logic Inc. and co-founder of the Academic and Research Leadership Network.

He was given the 2009 National Science Foundation CAREER award and was selected for the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) Computer Science Study Panel in 2010.

In 2017, Beyah was named an Emerging Scholar by Diverse.

 

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