Magda Lilia Chelly (born 1983) is a Polish-Tunisian cybersecurity expert and is amongst the first Tunisian women to be on the advisory board of
BlackHat
A Black Hat (Black Hat Hacker or Blackhat) is a computer hacker who usually violates laws or typical ethical standards. The term originates from the 1950s westerns, when bad guys typically wore black hats and good guys white hats. Black hat hacke ...
Asia Executive Committee. Born in
Krakow,
Poland, and educated in
Tunisia and
France, Chelly worked as an IT consultant, university lecturer, business leader, and cybersecurity professional.
In 2016, Chelly established her own cybersecurity start-up out of
Singapore, Asia.
She is the founding member of Women on Cyber, a non-profit diversity group. Chelly has a long history of involvement in diversity and inclusion activism as she launched the first Catch The Flag competition for girls in Singapore with the support of
Cyber Security Agency of Singapore.
Early life
Chelly was born in Krakow, a town in south Poland, in 1983. Following her father's advice on the importance of getting an engineering degree, Chelly completed a Degree and a Master in Telecommunication Engineering before moving to France. There, Chelly completed her PhD in the same field at
Telecom SudParis, Évry, France.
Career
Chelly worked with several organizations as cybersecurity advisor.
Research
Chelly's research career started with working on
Indoor Positioning
An indoor positioning system (IPS) is a network of devices used to locate people or objects where Global Positioning System, GPS and other satellite technologies lack precision or fail entirely, such as inside multistory buildings, airports, alley ...
within Telecom SudParis. She later on expanded her research in cybersecurity. Amongst her scientific papers are:
* New techniques for indoor positioning, combining deterministic and estimation methods
* Wifi hybridisation with pseudolites and repeaters for indoor positioning purposes
* Social Media and the impact on education: Social media and home education
She was one of the reviewers for
Annals of telecommunications - annales des télécommunications volume 65, pages 129–131, by the publisher
Springer in 2009.
Books
Chelly is the co-author, with Hai Tran and Shamane Tan, of one book on
computer security and is an author of a science fiction book:
* (2022) Building a Cyber Resilient Business ()
* (2021) Light, Shadow, and Cyber: Vera's Cyber Adventures
Media
Chelly was featured as a cybersecurity expert in
The Dark Web Documentary on
Channel News Asia
CNA (stylised as cna), which is an acronym derived from its previous name, Channel NewsAsia, is a Singaporean multinational news channel owned by the country's national public broadcaster Mediacorp. It broadcasts free-to-air domestically in Sin ...
.
Filmography
Chelly appeared in ''Love Me'', Original title: Aime-moi (2009); a short movie with
Armelle Deutsch
Armelle Deutsch (born 22 February 1979) is a French actress. Armelle was born in the Bouches-du-Rhône.
At the age of 13, Deutsch started acting classes and joined her first theatre group withiLe Théâtre d'Astroméla She then, plays a few pla ...
: Toute la mort devant soi (2009), Love Me (2009), Utopium: Song for an Artist (2008).
Awards and recognition
Chelly received various awards, across her career, including the below:
* The IFSEC Global influencers in security and fire 2021
See also
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Indoor positioning system
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Wi-Fi positioning system
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Social media in education
Social media in education is the practice of using social media platforms or technology to enhance the education of students. Social media is defined as "a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological found ...
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Computer security academics
Computer security specialists
Ethical hackers
Living people
1983 births
Tunisian people