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Dr
Magda Lilia Chelly
Magda Chelly
Born
Magda Lilia Chelly

Poland
NationalityPolish, Tunisian
EducationPh.D.
OccupationCybersecurity Professional
TitleCybersecurity Expert, and Public Speaker
AwardsThe IFSEC Global influencers in security and fire 2021
Website https://magda-on-cyber.com

Magda Lilia Chelly (born 1983) is a Polish-Tunisian cybersecurity expert and is amongst the first Tunisian women to be on the advisory board of BlackHat Asia Executive Committee. [1] Born in Krakow, Poland, and educated in Tunisia and France, Chelly worked as an IT consultant, university lecturer, business leader, and cybersecurity professional. [2]

In 2016, Chelly established her own cybersecurity start-up out of Singapore, Asia. [2] She is the founding member of Women on Cyber, a non-profit diversity group. Chelly has a long history of involvement in diversity and inclusion activism as she launched the first Catch The Flag competition for girls in Singapore with the support of Cyber Security Agency of Singapore. [3] [4] [5]  

Early life

Chelly was born in Krakow, a town in south Poland, in 1983. Following her father's advice on the importance of getting an engineering degree, Chelly completed a Degree and a Master in Telecommunication Engineering before moving to France. There, Chelly completed her PhD in the same field at Telecom SudParis, Évry, France. [6] [7] [8]

Career

Chelly worked with several organizations as cybersecurity advisor. [2] [9] [10]

Research

Chelly's research career started with working on Indoor Positioning within Telecom SudParis. She later on expanded her research in cybersecurity. Amongst her scientific papers are:

  • New techniques for indoor positioning, combining deterministic and estimation methods [11]
  • Wifi hybridisation with pseudolites and repeaters for indoor positioning purposes [12]
  • Social Media and the impact on education: Social media and home education [13]

She was one of the reviewers for Annals of telecommunications - annales des télécommunications volume 65, pages 129–131, by the publisher Springer in 2009. [14]

Books

Chelly is the co-author, with Hai Tran and Shamane Tan, of one book on computer security and is an author of a science fiction book:

  • (2022) Building a Cyber Resilient Business ( ISBN  978-1803246482) [15] [16]
  • (2021) Light, Shadow, and Cyber: Vera's Cyber Adventures [17] [18]

Media

Chelly was featured as a cybersecurity expert in The Dark Web Documentary on Channel News Asia. [19] [20]

Filmography

Chelly appeared in Love Me, Original title: Aime-moi (2009); a short movie with Armelle Deutsch: Toute la mort devant soi (2009), Love Me (2009), Utopium: Song for an Artist (2008). [21]

Awards and recognition

Chelly received various awards, across her career, including the below:

  • The IFSEC Global influencers in security and fire 2021 [22]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Black Hat Executive Summit".
  2. ^ a b c "Magda Chelly. Obywatelka świata na straży cyberprzestrzeni". Forbes Poland.
  3. ^ "Cybersecurity competition for females in Singapore, CTF creates opportunity and diversity". 18 July 2019.
  4. ^ "A 15-Year-Old Singaporean Girl Wins the Catch-The-Flag for Girls Competition In Singapore". November 2021.
  5. ^ "First Capture The Flag Competition For Girls In Singapore Reinforces Diversity In Cybersecurity". 26 July 2019.
  6. ^ "Propagation d'une position dans les réseaux connectés / par Chelly Magda Lilia, 07/07/2011".
  7. ^ Chelly, Magda Lilia (7 July 2011). Propagation of a position in a connected network (phdthesis). Institut National des Télécommunications.
  8. ^ "Magda Chelly (docteur TSP 2011), nominée aux Women in IT Awards".
  9. ^ "7 hot cybersecurity trends (and 2 going cold)". 11 January 2022.
  10. ^ "The future of women in cybersecurity".
  11. ^ "New techniques for indoor positioning, combining deterministic and estimation methods".
  12. ^ "International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation" (PDF).
  13. ^ Chelly, Magda; Mataillet, Hana (2012). "Social Media and the impact on education: Social media and home education". 2012 International Conference on E-Learning and E-Technologies in Education (ICEEE). pp. 236–239. doi: 10.1109/ICeLeTE.2012.6333388. ISBN  978-1-4673-1678-1. S2CID  7296552.
  14. ^ "2009 reviewers list". Annals of Telecommunications - Annales des Télécommunications. 65 (1–2): 129–131. 2010. doi: 10.1007/s12243-009-0157-3. S2CID  186225247.
  15. ^ Chelly, Magda (2022). Building a Cyber Resilient Business. Packt. ISBN  9781803246482.
  16. ^ "Building a Cyber Resilient Business".
  17. ^ "Book by Magda Lilia Chelly".
  18. ^ Light, Shadow, and Cyber: Vera's Cyber Adventures. Magda Lilia Chelly.
  19. ^ "The Dark Web". IMDb.
  20. ^ "Dr Magda Chelly discusses The Dark Web with Channel News Asia".
  21. ^ "IMDb Profile". IMDb.
  22. ^ "Revealed: The IFSEC Global influencers in security and fire 2021". 21 July 2021.

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