Dr. Heriberto Acosta Maestre

Dr. Heriberto Acosta Maestre
Technical Deputy Chair
Dr. Heriberto Acosta Maestre received his PhD in Information Systems from the College of Computing and Engineering at Nova Southeastern University. His dissertation titled "The Empirical Study of the Factors that Influence Threat Avoidance Behavior in Ransomware Security Incidents" focused on studying threat avoidance behavior in the context of ransomware security incidents among college students. He also holds a Master's Degree in Data Mining and a Bachelor's in Computer Engineering, both from the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico. He is interested in information security, human computing interactions, health data science, and data mining applications. Heriberto currently works as DL Program Training Administrator at the Puerto Rico National Guard. He also volunteers as co-chair of the Broadening Participation in Data Mining workshop impacting students from underrepresented groups in Data Science