Overview

Gender

male

Neil Daswani is the CTO and co-founder of Dasient, Inc., a security company
backed by some of the most influential investors in Silicon Valley and
New York. In the past, Neil has served in a variety of research,
development, teaching, and managerial roles at Google, Stanford
University, DoCoMo USA Labs, Yodlee, and Bellcore (now Telcordia
Technologies). While at Stanford, Neil co-founded the Stanford Center
Professional Development (SCPD) Security Certification Program
(http://proed.stanford.edu/?security). He has published extensively,
frequently gives talks at industry and academic conferences, and has
been granted several U.S. patents. He received a Ph.D. and a master's
in computer science from Stanford University, and earned a bachelor's
in computer science with honors with distinction from Columbia
University. Neil is also the lead author of "Foundations of Security:
What Every Programmer Needs To Know" (published by Apress; ISBN
1590597842; http://tinyurl.com/33xs6g). More information about Neil is
available at http://www.neildaswani.com.