Fatima Hussain

Dr. Fatima Hussain is a Senior Member of IEEE with a diverse technical and professional background. She has a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, specializing in secure wireless communications, and she is the author of dozens of transaction papers, industrial patents and books. She is editor of IEEE Newsletter Toronto Section from last 7 years and associate editor of many prestigious IEEE journals. She is a Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) and serves as an Adjunct Professor and Research Supervisor at Toronto Metropolitan University. Dr Hussain has a proven track record of driving research initiatives, designing and deploying proof-of-concept pilots to solve business problems, and developing end-to-end solutions by leveraging cutting-edge technology. Her areas of current research include machine learning and network security, user behavior analysis, SaaS security and governance, resource allocation, explainable and ethical artificial intelligence, and has delivered several invited talks on these topics.

Currently she holds the position of Principal SaaS Security Architect at the Royal Bank of Canada in Toronto, Canada. She is responsible for SaaS governance and Security architecture partnering closely with stakeholders in Enterprise Architecture, Cyber Security, Cloud, Risk, and Internal & External Delivery teams to enable effective SaaS governance and architecture best practices and sound design principles across the entire SaaS lifecycle. Prior to this role, Fatima managed the User Behavior Analytics and Insider Threat team in Global Cyber Security (GCS) in RBC, Toronto Canada. She led the development and automation of AI models for applications to detect and remedy data loss from insider threats. She has vast practical experience in using AI, ML, NLP, LLMs to bring visualization, data correlation services to the Insider Threat and Investigation team.