Avijit Roy is an engineer, cybersecurity researcher, educator, and data analyst based in New York City, originally from Bangladesh. He is affiliated with the City University of New York (CUNY) and John Jay College of Criminal Justice, where his work spans cybersecurity, digital forensics, applied artificial intelligence, secure software engineering, and large-scale data systems.

His research focuses on privacy-preserving architectures, adversarial robustness, explainable AI, and security-oriented machine learning systems, with recent work exploring perceptual hashing security, propaganda detection, low-resource language infrastructure, and human-centered investigative technologies. He is a recipient of the Claude Hawley Medal for best master’s thesis and scholastic distinction at John Jay College, as well as the ICICC 2026 Best Paper Award for interdisciplinary research on privacy-preserving management information systems.

John Jay College recently featured his journey and work in “Avijit Roy ’21, ’25, ’26: Computer Scientist Protecting People in the Age of AI.”

Professionally, Avijit works across software engineering, institutional analytics, and technical education—building practical systems while mentoring students in programming, secure computing, and ethical technology practices.

Outside of technology, he enjoys long-distance travel and photography, experiences that continue to shape his perspective on resilience, systems thinking, and human-centered design.