[1] In 2002, Memon founded Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW), an annual conference where tens of thousands of students compete in events and learn skills in cyber security[3] Memon is also co-founder of Digital Assembly, a software company that develops digital forensics and data recovery and Vivic, a company that produces malware detection software.
[6][7][8][9] His research has been featured in NBC Nightly News, The New York Times, MIT Review, Wired.Com, and New Science Magazine.
[10] Memon developed an automated software program that can retrieve and reassemble fragmented digital photographs, even when the directions for locating them have been deleted.
In 2006, Memon and two of his students, Pasha Pal and Kulesh Shanmugasundaram founded Digital Assembly, which sells a consumer version of the software, Adroit Photo Recovery, to restore deleted images.
Memon and his students started a company called Vivic to commercialize INFER, which resulted in the U.S. Army Research Laboratory becoming their first paying customer.
[5] In 1995, Memon co-developed the novel context based lossless compression scheme named CALIC with Xialoin Wu.
[17] Memon created the Information Systems and Internet Security lab, a hackerspace for students to work both on cyber offense and defense.
[1] Memon became a SPIE Fellow in 2014 and was awarded Best Research in Advanced ID Systems: Online Authentication of Digital Signature through Mobile Phones in 2014.