Dr. Fatima Hussain
Newsletter Editor | IEEE Toronto Section
Dr. Fatima Hussain is a Senior IEEE member, a Distinguished ComSoc Speaker, a Distinguished Research Fellow at National PK-CERT. She is a security governance strategist with deep expertise in Insider Threat, Risk Profiling, SaaS Security Architecture and AI Governance. She is Inventor/ Author of dozens of industrial patents, transaction papers and books. Dr Hussain has a proven track record of driving enterprise wide AI enabled research initiatives, designing and deploying proof-of-concept pilots to solve business problems.
Dr Hussain has a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, specializing in secure wireless communications, She is editor of IEEE Newsletter Toronto Section and associate editor of many prestigious IEEE journals, such as IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorial etc. She serves as an Adjunct Professor and Research Supervisor at Toronto Metropolitan University. Her areas of current research
include network security, user behavior analysis, SaaS security and governance, explainable and ethical artificial intelligence, and have delivered several invited talks on these topics.
Currently she holds the position of Principal SaaS Security Architect at the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) in Toronto, Canada. She leads design and implementation of secure SaaS adoption and governance framework. A special focus is on AI-enabled secure SaaS Architecture, Risk Modelling and Compliance Scoring initiatives.
Prior to this role, Dr Hussain managed the User Behavior Analytics and Insider Threat team in RBC, Toronto Canada. She led the development and automation of AI models for applications to detect and remedy data loss from insider threats. She has vast practical experience in using AI, ML, NLP, LLMs to bring visualization, data correlation services to the Insider Threat and Investigation team.
Dr. Hussain received her PhD and MASc degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto. Upon graduation she joined the Network-Centric Applied Research Team (N-CART) as a postdoctoral fellow where she worked on various NSERC-funded projects in the realm of the Internet of Things.