Chinmayi Sharma is an Associate Professor at Fordham Law School and a Cybersecurity and Technology Fellow at the Strauss Center. She was formerly a Scholar in Residence at the Strauss Center for International Security and Law and a Lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law. Her research and teaching focus on internet governance, cybersecurity, computer crime/criminal procedure, torts, and administrative law. 

She is affiliated with the Atlantic Council, the Transatlantic Cyber Forum, Foreign Policy for America (FP4A), the Internet Law and Policy Foundry, the Yale Cyber Leadership Forum, and the Council on Foreign Relations. Her scholarship has been included in the Hague’s International Cyber Security Bibliography. She has written extensively for Lawfare and has been quoted by NPR, ProPublica, the New York Times, and Schneier on Security. Before joining academia, Chinmayi worked at Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis LLP, a telecommunications law firm in Washington, D.C., clerked for Chief Judge Michael F. Urbanski of the Western District of Virginia, and co-founded a software development company.