Dontavious Ellis is a sophomore pursuing a B.S. in Cybersecurity at the University of South Florida, with a background in Electrical Engineering and a long-standing interest in how technology is used to track, investigate, and disrupt criminal activity. From early fascination with how investigators trace adversaries across complex systems to discovering organizations like the Sentinel Foundation which leverages technology to combat child trafficking, Dontavious has been drawn to cybercrime investigation as both a technical discipline and a mission. He holds a CompTIA Security+ certification and has conducted independent digital forensics investigations with published case work at dontaviousellis.com. His long-term vision is to build or lead a firm operating at the intersection of threat intelligence and national security and he sees CIBR as a critical part of developing the behavioral and investigative foundation that kind of work demands.