About Us
Blocmount is a technology startup serving the industrial control sector with the focus on small and medium manufacturers. Blocmount is based in San Antonio Texas and was incorporated in Delaware as a C-Corp in 2022. Blocmount is an NSF-funded company through the SBIR program (Phase I) and one of the first cohort of the San Antonio cybersecurity program with the gener8tor accelerator.
Mina Guirguis, Ph.D., (Founder and CEO)
Mina is a computer scientist with over 20 years of experience in the areas of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), cybersecurity, Internet of Things (IoT), Networks and Cloud Computing. Mina's research work has been published in over 50 refereed papers, posters, journals, and book chapters, funded by over $3.3M research awards from the National Science Foundation, Department of Defense, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Department of Homeland Security, IEEE, Cisco and Texas State University. Mina received the NSF CAREER award in 2012.Mina has a wide range of industrial and research engagement experience at various companies, including Microsoft and Fortress Technologies (acquired by General Dynamics). He has been a visiting researcher at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in the summers of 2012 and 2013. Mina joined the Mobile and Pervasive Computing Group in the ECE Dept. at UT Austin over the 2014/2015 academic year. Mina has also been a visiting scholar at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) hosted at the University of Southern California (USC) in the summer of 2016.
Mina is currently a Professor of Computer Science at Texas State University. Mina received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Boston University in 2006.
