In his youth Beyah wanted to be an astronaut, but was drawn to the field of computer engineering through his love for video games.

[5] His thesis "A Deployable Approach to Better Than Best Effort Quality of Service", was advised by John A. Copeland and Raghupathy Sivakumar.

After being promoted to the level of Consultant, Beyah left and returned to Georgia Tech to pursue a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering, advised by Copeland.

In 2011, he returned to Georgia Tech full time as an associate professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

[11] In 2017, Beyah and his students introduced a proof of concept of LogicLocker, the first ransomware for programmable logic controllers.

Upon stepping down, he was appointed as the executive director for Georgia Tech's Online Masters in Cybersecurity (OMS Cyber) program.