Joshua Dwight

Dr. Joshua Dwight is an Associate Program Manager of Computing Technologies at RMIT in Hanoi. He teaches and develops curriculum for several IT courses including cybersecurity, cloud computing, and software engineering project management. His current research focuses on cyber fraud and cybersecurity education. Additionally, he currently serves on a Southeast Asia work group to help prevent tech-enabled organized crime in the region. He has also taught at the City University of Seattle, the Banking Academy of Vietnam, and Shenzhen Polytechnic University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Information Technology from the University of the Cumberlands, an MBA from Louisiana State University, and an MSc in Information Systems Management from Seattle Pacific University. He has conducted research on ecommerce fraud incident response, cybersecurity education, and cybersecurity modeling. He has served as a conference presenter, invited speaker, and keynote speaker at numerous academic and non-academic events in the past 3+ years. His research predominately focuses on the practical intersection of e-commerce and cybersecurity or cybersecurity and education.   

Before his academic pursuits, Dr. Dwight spent over a decade working in industry. He worked for the Merchant Risk Council as a Senior Program Manager of Learning and Development where he established payment and payment fraud prevention professional courses and co-developed the Certified Payments and Fraud Prevention Professional (CPFPP) credential. Dr. Dwight spent the bulk of his career at Costco Wholesale, one of the largest retailers globally, working in the Ecommerce department, helping to implement many business technology projects. Additionally, he has worked at Boeing, Washington Federal Bank, and the United States Department of Justice in a variety of technology and business roles. He has professional credentials in project management, disaster recovery, cloud computing, and IT service management. 

Awards & recognition:

- Distinguished Service Award 2025 (RMIT Vietnam)

- President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching 2019 (City University of Seattle)

Industry experience:
Experience in business, technology, and learning and development.