STEM Unit University of South Australia
Adelaide, Australia

Mamello Thinyane is the Optus Chair of Cybersecurity and Data Science and Associate Professor in UniSA STEM at the University of South Australia. He is a former Senior Research Advisor at the United Nations University and a visiting researcher at the Australian Centre of Cyber Security at the University of New South Wales—Australian Defence Force Academy. His research interests are on collective intelligence, societal cyber resilience, human-centric cybersecurity, and critical data studies.