Associate Professor Roberto Dillon is an (ISC)² Professional Member, an IEEE Senior Member, and has published several books with A.K. Peters, CRC Press, and Springer. He holds a Master's and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Genoa, a postgraduate level Certificate in Cybersecurity from the Rochester Institute of Technology, and a Certificate in Higher Education Teaching from Harvard University.
 
Currently, he serves as the Academic Head for the School of Science and Technology at James Cook University's Singapore Campus, where he pioneered a dedicated Cybersecurity degree program in 2020 and founded Southeast Asia's first permanent Computer Games Museum in 2013. Before joining JCU, he held academic positions in institutions such as The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Nanyang Technological University, and the DigiPen Institute of Technology. 

A keen supporter and developer of FOSS (Free Open-Source Software), his research interests focus on artificial emotional intelligence as well as different cybersecurity-related areas such as UEBA (User and Entity Behavior Analytics), OSINT (Open-Source Intelligence), threat intelligence, and risk management. 
As a professor and educator, he is also very passionate about enhancing capacity building for the next generation of cybersecurity experts in Southeast Asia by designing new curricula and innovative gamified training tools.