Jema Ndibwile
Assistant Teaching Professor, CMU-Africa
Jema David Ndibwile is an assistant teaching professor in cybersecurity at Carnegie Mellon University. He previously worked at the Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology as an IT network specialist and a lecturer in cybersecurity.
He earned a Ph.D. in information security from Japan's Nara Institute of Science and Technology in 2019. In assisting to address complex cyber security challenges, his specializations include cybersecurity, military intelligence, applied cryptography, ethical hacking, the psychology of cybersecurity, digital forensics, and cyber defenses.
Ndibwile’s current research interests encompass usable privacy and security, hacking countermeasures, the impact of artificial and human intelligence on cybersecurity, and social engineering approaches. He also has expertise assisting the cybersecurity teams in areas such as communication, IT network architecture and in-network, service security, security testing, and developing security concepts for mobile and stationary networks. He has extensive experience in ethical hacking/penetration testing, digital forensics, and project management leveraging tools such as Kali Linux, Parrot OS, Cellebrite, and many others.
Education
2019 Ph.D. Information Security, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
2015 MTech Computer Networks and Information Security, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India
Affiliations
Research Interests
- AI and ML for security
- authentication and passwords
- data security and privacy
- forensics
- intrusion and anomaly detection and prevention
- IoT security and privacy
- malware analysis and detection
- mobile and app security and privacy
- network security
- privacy algorithms
- privacy enhancing technologies
- risk analysis and management
- security education, awareness, and training
- social networks security and privacy
- systems security
- threat analysis and modeling
- threat intelligence
- usable privacy and security
- web security
Media mentions
Carnegie Mellon University Africa
Making systems safer in Africa and the world
An ethical hacker with a passion for cybersecurity, Aklile Mamo (MSIT ’26) wants to give back by making systems safer for users in Africa and around the world.
Carnegie Mellon University Africa
Afretec awards almost $1.7 million
13 grants, collectively led by researchers from all members of Afretec, have been awarded to make a positive impact on health, environment and sustainability, and energy in Africa.
Carnegie Mellon University Africa
Avocados and agro-machines: effective control and monitoring systems for agriculture
CMU-Africa’s Jema Ndibwile and collaborators from the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology develop a solar-powered control and monitoring system for agro-machines using IoT technology.
CMU Engineering
Wambui Njogu’s path to a career in cybersecurity
On a journey that’s taken her from Kenya to Rwanda to Pittsburgh, MSIT student Wambui Njogu looks back on the experiences that instilled her passion for cybersecurity and how she developed her skills at CMU-Africa.
Carnegie Mellon University Africa
New model provides smishing protection in Swahili
Research about smishing (SMS phishing) from CMU-Africa and the Nelson Mandela Institute of Science and Technology was recently published in IEEE Access.