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Academic staff working in Security, Privacy and Trust

Member	Interests
Dr Sam Ainsworth	Architecture, Compilers, Microarchitectural Side Channels, Programming Language Security
Prof Ross Anderson	Security engineering, security economics, side channels, adversarial machine learning, security sustainability, protocols, payments, technology policy, cybercrime.
Dr Myrto Arapinis	Verification of cryptographic protocols, verification of security properties, detection of attacks, formal models, and protocol composition.
Prof David Aspinall	Software security, user authentication, theorem proving, programming and specification languages.
Dr Michele Ciampi	Cryptography with emphasis on zero-knowledge protocol, secure multi-party computation, blockchain technology and non-malleable cryptographic protocol.
Dr James Cheney	Programming languages, databases, logic/verification. Applications to provenance, scientific data management, and security.
Dr Liam O'Connor	Formal Specification and Verification, Programming Languages, Concurrency, Theorem Proving, Algorithmic Verification, Trustworthy Software Engineering
Dr Tariq Elahi	Anonymous communications, censorship resistance, and the internet of things.
Prof Andrew D. Gordon	Programming languages and their semantics and logics, with application to security and privacy, machine learning, concurrency, and databases.
Dr Marc Juarez	Network traffic analysis, anonymous communications, applied machine learning to security and privacy, adversarial machine learning, and algorithmic bias.
Prof Elham Kashefi	Quantum cryptography.
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.
Dr Nadin Kokciyan	Multi-agent systems, computational argumentation, and privacy in social software.
Dr Markulf Kohlweiss	Verification of cryptographic implementations, cryptographic currencies and zero-knowledge proof systems, privacy and anti-surveillance, ethics in cryptography
Dr Chris Xiaoxuan Lu	Safety and Reliability of Mobile Robotics, Side Channels in Internet of Things, Usable Biometrics for Wearables, Identity and Location Privacy, Mixed Reality.
Dr Tiejun Ma	Risk and Decision Analytics
Dr Mahesh Marina	Mobile authentication and privacy, and distributed intrusion detection.
Dr Paul Patras	Performance optimisation in wireless networks, network protocols and architectures, prototyping and test beds. Current research interests include security and privacy of IoT systems.
Dr Subramanian Ramamoorthy	Autonomous robotics, Robot learning, Safe and Explainable Artificial Intelligence.
Dr Ian Stark	Mobile security and its verification. Formal models of systems and architecture, including security-oriented capability hardware.
Dr Kami Vaniea	Human factors of security and privacy, particularly focusing on supporting users in making good security decisions.
Dr Vesselin Velichkov	Symmetric-key cryptography and cryptanalysis, block ciphers, tools for cryptanalysis.
Dr Petros Wallden	Quantum Cryptography, Quantum Computation and Quantum Information Theory.
Dr Daniel Woods	Economics of security and privacy focusing on cyber insurance, risk quantification and incident response.

Research staff

Member	Interests
Dr Aydin Abadi	Designing secure and practical cryptographic protocols, delegated Private Set Intersection, verifiable computation, blockchain technology, and applications of smart contracts in verifiable computation, as well as design and implementation of smart contracts.
Dr Brian Campbell	Formal modeling of programming languages and instruction sets; software verification and static analysis.
Dr Mahshid Delavar	Classical/quantum hardware security with a focus on Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and design and analysis of protocols based on hardware assumption.
Dr Vashti Galpin	Formal modelling and verification of network security.
Yiannis Tselekounis	Tamper and leakage resilient cryptography.
Mr William Waites	ISP network operations, surveillance and privacy.
Dr Thomas Zacharias	E-voting.

Affiliated staff

Member	Interests
Dr Stefano Albrecht	Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, reasoning about the behaviour of interacting agents, applications to cyber security.
Mr Paul Anderson	Secure configuration and management of computing infrastructure.
Prof Stuart Anderson	Dependable Systems. In particular socio-technical systems, resilience of such systems and how Social Science and Informatics provide a unique perspective on the conception, design, deployment and operation of computer-based systems.
Dr Chris Heunen	Semantics of quantum theory and programming languages; category theory; quantum logic; functional analysis.
Dr Nadin Kokciyan	Multi-agent systems, computational argumentation, and privacy in social software.
Dr Vijay Nagarajan	Hardware/software support for reliability, availability, and security.
Prof Gordon Plotkin	Algebraic specification and formal software development; correctness of modular systems; resource and security certification for mobile code; security and static analysis.
Dr Michael Rovatsos	Human-friendly AI approaches to privacy in data-driven collaborative Web systems. Value-sensitive algorithm design, fairness and transparency in collective intelligence applications.
Prof Don Sannella	Resource certification for mobile code; security and static analysis.
Dr Rik Sarkar	Privacy preserving queries for location and trajectory data. Anonymity through clustering and aggregation.
Prof Philip Wadler	Programming languages, functional languages, type systems, gradual types, session types, concurrency and distribution.
Dr Maria Wolters	Privacy and security aspects of mHealth and eHealth, in particular usable security.

PhD students

Member	Interests
Ibrahim Ahmed	Artificial intelligence and cyber security
Sara S. Albakry	User privacy control in the Internet of Things.
Kholoud Althobaiti	Usability of anti-phising approaches, particularly URL readability.
Henry Clausen	Statistical learning for anomaly detection.
Alexandru Cojocaru	Quantum computing
Mina Doosti	Quantum cryptography and quantum cryptanalysis, quantum computing
Andrew Faulds	System Configuration language usability.
Robert Flood	Data science and network security.
Weili Fu	Provenance for configuration language security.
Muhammad Ishaq	Cryptography, MPC and its applications, blockchain.
Adam Jenkins	Usable software updating for system administrators.
Dimitris Karakostas	Decentralized systems, cryptographic applications and software architecture.
Dilara Kekulluoglu	Privacy and large scale data analysis.
Thomas Kerber	Privacy, and computational models in cryptography.
Nikolaos Lamprou	E-voting.
Yun Lu	Cryptography, differential privacy, provable security, blockchain.
Konstantinos Mitropoulos	Cryptography and hardware, blockchains, applied security.
Georgios Panagiotakos	Provable security of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency protocols.
Valentin Radu	Robust and energy-efficient context detection with smartphones.
Orfeas Stefanos Thyfronitis Litos	Cryptography, blockchains, decentralised trust & reputation.
Aikaterini-Panagiota Stouka	Incentives in cryptocurrencies.
Mohammad Tahaei	Usability of security APIs for software developers.
Hendrik Waldner	Public-key cryptography, especially functional encryption.

Some PhD alumni

Member	Interests
David Butler	Formal verification of multi-party computation.
Henry Clausen	Traffic microstructures and network anomaly detection.
Sheung Chi (Arthur) Chan	Formal models of provenance information.
Alexandru Gheorghiu	Quantum cryptography.
Andriana Gkaniatsou	Analysis of low-level implementations of cryptographic protocols.
Joseph Hallett	Authorization logics.
Yuhui Lin	Formal modelling and verification of network security.
Marcin Szymczak	Application of programming language techniques in Bayesian reasoning.
Galini Tsoukaneri	Narrow band cellular communications in the Internet of Things.

This article was published on 27 Oct, 2022