Katina Michael BIT, MTransCrimPrev, PhD (Senior Member IEEE, ACM SIGCAS), is a Director of the Social Cyber Institute. Michael received the B.S. degree in information technology from the University of Technology Sydney in 1996, the Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Wollongong Australia in 2003, and the Master of Transnational Crime Prevention degree from the University of Wollongong in 2009. She researches the social, legal, and ethical implications of emerging technologies. Between 2018-2024, she held a joint professorial appointment with the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, Arizona State University, where she was the Director of the Society Policy Engineering Collective. She has been funded by national research councils in Australia, the USA, the UAE and Canada. She was also an Honorary Professor with the School of Business, University of Wollongong, where she was previously the Associate Dean International of the Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences. She is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society, and formerly EIC of the IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, editor at Computers & Security, and senior editor at IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine. She is the Founding Chair of the ASU Master of Science in Public Interest Technology, and Technical Committee Co-Chair of Socio-Technical Systems at IEEE. Prior to academia, Katina was employed by Nortel Networks, Anderson Consulting, and OTIS Elevator Company.