Ahmed Ghappour is General Counsel at Nym Technologies and Associate Professor of Law at Boston University, where teaches Cybersecurity Law, Privacy Law, and Criminal Law. Before his current roles, Ghappour built law clinics at UT Austin and the UC Hastings to litigate national security and hacking cases. There, he litigated the first criminal trial to challenge bulk metadata collection by the NSA, sued the CIA on behalf of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and represented digital causes célèbres such as Chelsea Manning, Ross Ulbricht, and Barrett Brown. Before that, Ghappour represented Guantanamo prisoners at Reprieve UK, and litigated patent cases with a top law firm. In a prior life, Ghappour hacked on HPCs as a software engineer at Silicon Graphics, Inc. and Sun Microsystems. He’s an alum of NYU School of Law and Rutgers Engineering.