Mitra Mirhassani is an Electrical and Computer Engineering professor at the University of Windsor. She is co-director of SHIELD Automotive Cybersecurity Centre of Excellence, Canada’s first and only Centre dedicated to research and innovation in the automobile cybersecurity sector. Under Mitra Mirhassani’s leadership, the Centre currently hosts four new cybersecurity start-ups and works closely with Invest Windsor Essex (IWE) and Ontario Vehicle Innovation Network to assist SME growth and development in the region.

She co-chaired the APMA Cyber Security Committee between 2020 and 2022. The committee has members from various Canadian industry sectors, academia, Transport Canada, and CSIS, and looks into Canada's cybersecurity preparedness in competitive global automotive markets.

She is being invited to various panels and speaking engagements, such as 2023 CAV CANADA, the UN Internet Governance Committee and the CANARIE Summit in 2021, where she showcased how counterfeit and Trojan hardware can impact the entire system’s security and nullify all of the efforts done at the system design. She also demonstrated how trade policies and regulations could assist in the protection of Canadian-made intellectual properties and prevent reverse engineering their inventions.

She was the advisor to the WiCyS (Women in Cybersecurity) Windsor chapter in 2019 and earned the leadership award for the group’s activity in promoting the field in 2020. She was recognized as one of the Top Women in Cybersecurity by IT World Canada in 2020 and won the 2020 Outstanding Achievement Award and the 2021 Donald S. Wood Leadership Award in Cybersecurity from the APMA, and received the Faculty of Engineering’s Medal of Excellence for Research – Senior Faculty for 2023.