Dr. Avesta Hojjati is the Head of R&D at DigiCert, where he manages advanced development of Cyber Security products and heavily contributes to the M&A strategy. Prior to DigiCert, he was part of Symantec product management. At Symantec, he was responsible for a broad spectrum of product strategy, design, and development. Before Symantec, he was part of the Yahoo security team. Dr. Hojjati is an author of multiple academic papers, he is commonly known for his research on side-channel attacks on medical devices and 3D printers. Dr. Hojjati is a member of the International Association for Cryptologic Research and a board member of Rutgers University Continuing Education, Sovrin foundations and ID4me AISBL. Hojjati holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Texas
