Zahid Anwar serves as Associate Professor of Cybersecurity in the Department of Computer Science and a scholar at the Challey Institute for Global Innovation and Growth at NDSU. He earned an MS and PhD in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and conducted postgraduate research at Concordia University. Previously, Anwar served on the faculties of the National University of Sciences and Technology in Pakistan, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Fontbonne University. He has also worked as a software engineer at IBM, Intel, Motorola, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, xFlow Research and at CERN on various projects related to information security and data analytics. Anwar’s research focuses on cybersecurity policy and innovative cyber defense. He is a CompTIA certified penetration tester, security+ professional and an AWS certified cloud solutions architect.