Sheetal Temara, PhD

Senior Cyber Security Research Engineer

Wells Fargo

Dr. Sheetal Temara is a postdoctoral researcher, published author and Cyber & AI practitioner working at the intersection of offensive security, responsible innovation & workforce development. She serves as a senior cybersecurity leader in the financial sector with experience in application penetration testing, adversarial security, vulnerability validation and emerging technology risk. Her work is driven by curiosity about how technology behaves in the real world and how it can be made more secure and resilient. Temara holds a doctorate in IT and her research studied using AI to improve cybersecurity training through adaptive learning, realistic simulations and timely feedback. This work reinforced her belief that strong cybersecurity depends on both capable technology and people who have the judgment and confidence to use it well. She also contributes to the cybersecurity and technology community as a peer reviewer, speaker, mentor, educator and hackathon judge & aims to help create AI systems that are capable, resilient, accountable and worthy of human trust through her research, industry leadership and community work. Her broader work also reflects a focus on clearer thinking, stronger communication and human intention when working with AI.

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AI Builders Global Conference 2026

Oct 14, 2026 – Oct 16, 2026 · Virtual · scheduled

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