Security researcher, engineering leader, and CISO. Twenty years across AI, mobile, cellular, blockchain, and embedded systems — building enterprise security programs and publishing original research.
- Now — Head of Security Engineering & Field CISO at WitnessAI
- Also — Founder, OffCell Research
- Based — Dallas, TX
- Demystifying the Secure Enclave Processor — Black Hat USA 2016
- Cellular Exploitation on a Global Scale: The Rise and Fall of the Control Protocol — Black Hat USA / Europe / Breakpoint 2014
- Blackbox Android: Breaking Enterprise-Class Applications and Secure Containers — Hack in the Box KUL · OWASP AppSec 2011
- First publicly demonstrated over-the-air car hack — 2011 (contributing research, Black Hat USA "War Texting")
- US12587529B2 — AI model security via automated injection and proxy server enforcement (Granted)
- US20250307418A1 — Guardrail systems for securing large language model use (Published)
- Winning the Game of Hide and DeepSeek · WitnessAI Blog
- Homepage — mathewsolnik.com
- LinkedIn — linkedin.com/in/msolnik
- X — @msolnik
- Google Scholar — scholar.google.com
- Keybase — keybase.io/msolnik

