Mardiros Merdinian

Part-Time Lecturer

Research interests

  • Information security
  • Information assurance

Education

  • MS in Information Assurance, Northeastern University
  • MS in Management of Information Systems, Stevens Institute of Technology
  • BS in Computer Science, Istanbul University — Turkey

Biography

Mardiros Merdinian is a part-time lecturer at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. He earned his bachelor’s degree in computer science from Istanbul University, his first master’s degree in management of information systems from the Stevens Institute of Technology, and a second master’s degree in information assurance from Northeastern University. Merdinian’s area of teaching is information security, and he is a member of the Secure Systems Lab (SecLab) and the Security Group at Northeastern.

Merdinian has years of experience working in the fields of information assurance and information security. He worked as an information security officer at Hewlett-Packard for seven years, where he was the single point of contact for HP clients for security, audit, and compliance.

He currently works as a senior information security officer at State Street Corporation, where he is globally responsible for information security for a business unit.

Merdinian enjoys using his extensive knowledge and experience working in the field of cybersecurity to teach students the practical applications they need to learn theoretical topics.