Our Institute draws its members from across the University of Edinburgh. The list below shows academics involved in cyber security research and teaching. The University of Edinburgh is recognised as an Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR) and many of the Institute's staff are funded by the UK science funding agency UKRI or the UK Government.
If you are a member of academic staff at the University of Edinburgh and would like to be included on this list, please contact us.
Key Academic Staff
| Academic Staff | Interests | School |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Myrto Arapinis | Verification of cryptographic protocols, verification of security properties, detection of attacks, formal models, and protocol composition. | Informatics |
| Professor David Aspinall | Software security, user authentication, theorem proving, programming and specification languages. | Informatics |
| Professor James Cheney | Programming languages, databases, logic/verification. Applications to provenance, scientific data management, and security. | Informatics |
| Dr Michele Ciampi | Cryptography with emphasis on zero-knowledge protocol, secure multi-party computation, blockchain technology and non-malleable cryptographic protocol. | Informatics |
| Dr Tariq Elahi | Anonymous communications, censorship resistance, and the internet of things. | Informatics |
| Dr Richard Jones | Criminology, cybercrime, policing, surveillance, public policy, and resilience. | Law |
| Dr Marc Juarez | Network traffic analysis, anonymous communications, applied machine learning to security and privacy, adversarial machine learning, and algorithmic bias. | Informatics |
| Professor Elham Kashefi | Quantum cryptography. | Informatics |
| Dr Markulf Kohlweiss | Verification of cryptographic implementations, cryptographic currencies and zero-knowledge proof systems, privacy and anti-surveillance, ethics in cryptography. | Informatics |
| Professor Aggelos Kiayias | Broad perspective on cryptography and cyber security with emphasis on blockchain systems, e-voting protocols, digital content distribution, privacy and identity management. | Informatics |
| Dr Nadin Kokciyan | Multi-agent systems, computational argumentation, and privacy in social software. | Informatics |
| Dr Jingjie Li | User-centric security and privacy: understanding human factors of security and privacy and designing more secure and private systems for emerging digital technologies. | Informatics |
| Professor Ewa Luger | Applied ethics: data governance, consent, privacy and making intelligent systems intelligible to the user. | School of Design |
| Dr Chris Xiaoxuan Lu | Safety and reliability of mobile robotics, side channels in IoT, biometrics for wearables, identity and location privacy, mixed reality | Informatics |
| Professor Mahesh Marina | Mobile authentication and privacy, and distributed intrusion detection. | Informatics |
| Professor Paul Patras | Performance optimisation in wireless networks, network protocols and architectures, prototyping and test beds, security and privacy of IoT systems. | Informatics |
| Professor Charles Raab | Public policy, governance and regulation for information privacy, surveillance and security, and identity. | Social and Political Sciences |
| Professor Ram Ramamoorthy | Autonomous robotics, robot learning, safe and explainable artificial intelligence. | Informatics |
| Professor Burkhard Schafer | Legal concepts of privacy and security and their computational implementation, legal forensics. | Law |
| Dr Ian Stark | Mobile security and its verification. Formal models of systems and architecture, including security-oriented capability hardware. | Informatics |
| Dr Petros Wallden | Quantum cryptography, quantum computation and quantum information theory. | Informatics |
| Dr Daniel Woods | Economics of security and privacy focusing on cyber insurance, risk quantification and incident response. | Informatics |
Affiliated Staff
| Member | Interests | School |
|---|---|---|
| Mr Paul Anderson | Large infrastructure management; configuration languages, including provenance and security. | Informatics |
| Professor Angus Bancroft | Sociology of cyber-criminal markets, techno-politics of anonymity. | Sociology |
| Professor Mike Davies | Imaging and signal processing; detection, classification and signal separation for surveillance. | Engineering |
| Professor Wenfei Fan | Access control security for structured data in XML, data cleaning. | Informatics |
| Professor Andrew Neal | Security policy, politics and scrutiny, and their expansion over time. | Politics and International Relations |
| Professor Dave Robertson | Security and privacy and trust and reputation in distributed systems and social computation. | Informatics |
| Professor Michael Rovatsos | Reputation in multiagent systems, restricted information sharing in distributed data mining. | Informatics |
| Dr Rik Sarkar | Distributed and wireless routing protocols and attacks, location privacy. | Informatics |
| Dr Lachlan Urquhart | Regulatory, human computer interaction and ethical aspects of ubiquitous computing, especially data protection and security. | Law |
| Dr Petros Wallden | Quantum cryptography, especially quantum digital signatures; quantum theory foundations. | Informatics |