Bio
David Maimon, a professor and Next Generation Scholar in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies’ Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology, directs the Evidence-based Cybersecurity Research Group at Georgia State University. He is also a research associate with the HUJI Cyber-Security Research Center at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His research interests include theories of human behaviors, cyber-enabled and cyber-dependent crimes and experimental research methods. His current research focuses on computer hacking and the progression of system trespassing events, computer networks vulnerabilities to cyberattacks, and decision-making process in cyber space. He is also conducting research on intellectual property and cyber fraud. Maimon’s research has been funded by research grants from both governmental and private agencies from both the U.S. and abroad. He received the Young Scholar Award from the White-Collar Crime Research Consortium of the National White-Collar Crime Center for his cybercrime research in 2015, the Philip Merrill Presidential Scholars Faculty Mentor Award from the University of Maryland, and the Best Publication Award in Mental Health from the American Sociological Association. Maimon received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the Ohio State University in 2009.