Our institute draws its members from across the university. The list below shows academics who lead research groups and teach relevant courses. Many postdoctoral researchers and students are also affiliated. Collectively our work led to the University's recognition as an Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR) by the UK science funding agency UKRI and the UK Government.
If you are a member of academic staff and would like to be included on this list, please contact us to discuss.
Key Academic Staff
Member | Interests | School |
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Dr Myrto Arapinis | Verification of cryptographic protocols, verification of security properties, detection of attacks, formal models, and protocol composition. | Informatics |
Prof David Aspinall | Software security, user authentication, theorem proving, programming and specification languages. | Informatics |
Dr Pramod Bhatotia | Software security, secure storage, security for distributed systems, and hardware-assisted security. | Informatics |
Dr James Cheney | Programming languages, databases, logic/verification. Applications to provenance, scientific data management, and security. | Informatics |
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Informatics | |
Prof Elham Kashefi | Quantum cryptography. | Informatics |
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Informatics |
Prof Andrew D. Gordon | Programming languages and their semantics and logics, with application to security and privacy, machine learning, concurrency, and databases. | Informatics |
Prof Harald Haas | Wireless system engineering and digital signal processing, especially optical and hybrid optical-RF. | Engineering |
Prof 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 Ewa Luger | Applied ethics: data governance, consent, privacy and making intelligent systems intelligible to the user. | Design Informatics |
Dr Chris Xiaoxuan Lu | Safety and reliability of mobile robotics, side channels in IoT, biometrics for wearables, identity and location privacy, mixed reality | Informatics |
Dr Mahesh Marina | Mobile authentication and privacy, and distributed intrusion detection. | Informatics |
Dr Paul Patras | Performance optimisation in wireless networks, network protocols and architectures, prototyping and test beds, security and privacy of IoT systems. | Informatics |
Prof Charles Raab | Public policy, governance and regulation for information privacy, surveillance and security, and identity. | Social and Political Sciences |
Dr Subramanian Ramamoorthy | Autonomous robotics, robot learning, safe and explainable artificial intelligence. | Informatics |
Prof Tharm Ratnarajah | Wireless communications, information theory, physical layer security, 5G and wide-area IoT. | Engineering |
Prof Burkhard Schafer | Legal concepts of privacy and security and their computational implementation, legal forensics. | Law |
Prof Chris Speed | Designing provocative interventions to support usable security or highlight user risks. | Design Informatics |
Dr Ian Stark | Mobile security and its verification. Formal models of systems and architecture, including security-oriented capability hardware. | Informatics |
Dr Kami Vaniea | Human factors of security and privacy, particularly supporting users in making good security decisions. | Informatics |
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Informatics |
Affiliated Staff
Member | Interests | School |
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Mr Paul Anderson | Large infrastructure management; configuration languages, including provenance and security. | Informatics |
Prof Stuart Anderson | Design and analysis of complex systems, risks in socio-technical systems. | Informatics |
Dr Angus Bancroft | Sociology of cyber-criminal markets, techno-politics of anonymity. | Sociology |
Prof Alan Bundy | Application of automated reasoning to verify, disprove or reverse engineer security-critical programs. | Informatics |
Prof Mike Davies | Imaging and signal processing; detection, classification and signal separation for surveillance. | Engineering |
Prof Wenfei Fan | Access control security for structured data in XML, data cleaning. | Informatics |
Dr Mehrdad Mizani | Cyber security in health data science, utility-based privacy protection, network security, DDoS prevention, cloud security. | Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics |
Dr Andrew Neal |
Security policy, politics and scrutiny, and their expansion over time. |
Politics and International Relations |
Prof Dave Robertson |
Security and privacy and trust and reputation in distributed systems and social computation. |
Informatics |
Dr Michael Rovatsos | Reputation in multiagent systems, restricted information sharing in distributed data mining. | Informatics |
Prof Don Sannella | Formal methods for secure systems development, using algebraic and mechanised reasoning. | Informatics |
Dr Rik Sarkar |
Distributed and wireless routing protocols and attacks, location privacy. |
Informatics |
Dr Charles Sutton | Machine learning; applications to software engineering, programming languages, and computer security. | Informatics |
Dr Lachlan Urquhart | Law | |
Prof Philip Wadler | Programming language design and foundations that support better security, especially using types. | Informatics |
Dr Petros Wallden | Quantum cryptography, especially quantum digital signatures; quantum theory foundations. | Informatics |
Dr Maria Wolters | Private and secure eHealth. | Design Informatics |