Nwokedi Idika is currently a Privacy and Data Protection lead in YouTube.  He used to be part of Google's central privacy org helping teams build products that respect user's privacy.  Prior to engaging product teams on privacy issues at Google, he spent a couple of years building solutions to malicious automated threats at Shape Security and a few years at MIT Lincoln Lab working on quantifying trust and approaches to improve cyber defenders’ situational awareness. He earned his Ph.D. and Master's in CS from Purdue University and a B.S. in CS from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.