Raheem Beyah Is the New Dean of the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech

Raheem Beyah has been promoted to dean of the College of Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. He has been serving as vice president for interdisciplinary research and executive director of the online master’s degree program in cybersecurity. Dr. Beyah is the Motorola Foundation Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech.

Professor Beyah also leads the Communications Assurance and Performance Group and is affiliated with the Institute for Information Security and Privacy at Georgia Tech. He is co-founder and board chair of Fortiphyd Logic Inc., an industrial cybersecurity company.

Prior to becoming a faculty member at Georgia Tech, Beyah was an assistant professor in the department of computer science at Georgia State University, a research engineer in electrical and computer engineering at Georgia Tech, and a consultant with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture).

A native of Atlanta, Professor Beyah is a graduate of North Carolina A&T State University. He holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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