I deliver research that enables the accurate and ethical measurement of security and cybercrime. By measuring security and cybercrime we can monitor improvement, evaluate interventions and inform regulators. This reveals which techniques work and provides the missing economic incentives to improve security and reduce cybercrime. I work with researchers across disciplines to understand the full picture.
PhD, 2015
University of Cambridge
MA in Computer Science, 2011
University of Cambridge
Listed alphabetically for my ease of reference (updated 2020-08-07). Active: Ross Anderson, Alastair R. Beresford, Alistair Brash, Sara Correia, Richard Clayton, Michael Dodson, Katherine Fletcher, Alice Hutchings, Martin Kleppmann, Shishir Nagaraja, Sergio Pastrana, Jovan Powar, Jair Santanna, Diana A. Vasile, Alexander Vetterl, Helena Webb. Previous: Andrew Rice.
At the University of Strathclyde: 2019-2021: Second 6 weeks of CS101 Topics in Computing 1: Use and abuse of power in technology. 2020-2021: CS805 Advanced topics in cybersecurity.
At the University of Cambridge I was one of the course lecturers for the R209 Computer Security: Principles and Foundations, R210 Computer Security: Current Applications and Research, and R254 Cybercrime MPhil courses in security. In 2018 I lectured Security II: Part 2: Security engineering covering security, human factors, and psychology; security policies; authentication; and network security. I gave one lecture on LaTeX for Markus Kuhn’s Unix Tools course in November 2013.
TODO
I am on the PC for WACCO 2020 and eCrime 2020.
I have reviewed papers for: ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review (CCR), Journal of Internet Services and Applications (JISA), Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM) 2013, Ubicomp 2014, Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (2017), Transactions on Software Engineering (2017), The Computer Journal (2018) amongst others. I was co-editor for a Frontiers Research Topic on Big Data Ethics. I have reviewed a funding proposal for University of Luxembourg’s internal call.
I have received funding from various organisations, I try not to let that influence me but in the interest of transparency details follow.
I am bound by the precepts of the Christian faith, the law of Scotland, the regulations of the University of Strathclyde, and the ACM’s Code of Ethics in that order. You can hold me to those obligations but I will not expect you to follow them unless you have chosen to be bound by them.