Dr Ryan Heartfield

Dr. Ryan Heartfield has over 15 years of experience across a wide range of Cybersecurity disciplines such as AI-driven threat detection and incident response, software-defined network security architecture, and information trustworthiness. Ryan is currently CEO of Exalens an AI and Cybersecurity startup, previously a senior security architect at Splunk and for the UK Government. He is also a previous Research Fellow of Cybersecurity at the University of Greenwich where his published work in AI-driven intrusion detection for cyber-physical systems and semantic social engineering attacks has received both academic and industry acclaim. He holds a PhD in AI and Cybersecurity from the University of Greenwich. At Kingston University, Ryan’s focus will be on the design and integration of industry-aligned concepts, use cases and practical applications of AI for Cybersecurity and Cybersecurity for AI across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.