Chelsie Thompson
Senior Security Specialist
Microsoft
Dr. Chelsie Thompson is a Senior Security Specialist at Microsoft focused on helping education institutions navigate AI adoption without compromising security. With nearly a decade at Microsoft spanning incident response, federal consulting, and security architecture, she brings frontline threat experience and strategic depth to a challenge most education leaders did not sign up for but cannot afford to ignore.
She holds a Doctor of Engineering from The George Washington University, where her research applied AI and machine learning to classify cyber threats targeting academic institutions. She also teaches cybersecurity at the university level, bringing real enterprise security practice directly into the classroom.
Dr. Thompson created one of LinkedIn Learning's Top 10 Most Popular AI Courses of the Year and is a published researcher in security analytics and adversarial AI.
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