Cyber Security and Privacy
Our research is concerned with all aspects of security and privacy for business, government and society. Our expertise lies within a broad range of areas of computer security including:
- Applied cryptography
- Automotive security
- Cloud security
- Electronic voting
- Formal verification
- Hardware security
- IoT security
- Secure infrastructure
- Security of machine learning
- Wireless security
Our security and privacy academic staff are also members of the Centre for Cyber Security and Privacy which is recognised by the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), in partnership with the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) as an Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR).
For more information about the centre, please see the Centre for Cyber Security and Privacy website.
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Theme Members

Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering
School of Computer Science
Dr Rami Bahsoon is a Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering (Associate Professor) and founding member of the Birmingham Software Engineering Group and the Cloud Software Engineering "interest group" at the School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham. He is also an active member of the Centre of Excellent for Research in Computational Intelligence and Applications (CERCIA), ...
- Telephone
- +44 (0) 121 414 4770
- Email
- r.bahsoon@cs.bham.ac.uk

Reader
School of Computer Science
Dr Tom Chothia is a Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security for the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham. His research involves the development of new mathematical analysis, and the application of these techniques to cyber security problems.
For more information, please see Tom's homepage.
- Email
- t.p.chothia@cs.bham.ac.uk

Senior Lecturer in Computer Security
School of Computer Science
Dr David Galindo is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Security at the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham with 15 years of experience in applied cryptography research. He is a member of the University's Centre for Cyber Security and Privacy. He is also Lead Cryptographer in Cambridge-based AI and digital economics start-up Fetch.ai.
His work has been published in top ...
- Telephone
- 0121 414 4794
- Email
- d.galindo@cs.bham.ac.uk

Professor of Computer Security
School of Computer Science
Flavio Garcia is a Professor of Computer Security and EPSRC Fellow at the Birmingham Centre for Cyber Security and Privacy. His work focuses on the design and evaluation of cryptographic primitives and protocols for embedded devices like smart cards and automotive components.
Flavio research focuses on the design and evaluation of cryptographic primitives and protocols for embedded devices such ...
- Email
- f.garcia@bham.ac.uk

Lecturer in Computer Science
School of Computer Science
Dr Mihai Ordean is a lecturer for the School of Computer Science, at the University of Birmingham. He is also a member of the Birmingham Centre for Cyber Security and Privacy.
His work mainly focuses on systems security, mobile communication security, and industrial control systems (ICS) security. He is also interested in end-to-end encryption for cloud applications and has been involved in ...
- Email
- m.ordean@bham.ac.uk

Lecturer in Computer Security
School of Computer Science
David Oswald is a lecturer (assistant professor) in the Security and Privacy Group at the University of Birmingham, UK. His main field of research is the security of embedded systems in the real world. On the one hand, the focus is on attack methods that exploit weaknesses in the physical implementation of mathematically secure cryptographic algorithms. Those techniques include both (passive) ...
- Email
- d.f.oswald@bham.ac.uk

Professor of Computer Science
School of Computer Science
David Parker is a Professor of Computer Science. His research is in formal verification: rigorous, mathematical techniques for checking that systems function correctly and reliably. He has published over 120 research papers in this area and leads the development of the widely used verification software PRISM
For more information, please see David's homepage.
- Email
- d.a.parker@bham.ac.uk

Senior Lecturer in Computer Security
School of Computer Science

Senior Lecturer in Computer Science
School of Computer Science
Dr Eike Ritter is a Senior Lecturer for the School of Computer Science, at the University of Birmingham. He is also a member of the Security and Privacy group and Theory group.
For more information, please see Eike's homepage.
- Email
- e.ritter@cs.bham.ac.uk

Lecturer in Cyber Security
School of Computer Science

Industrial Fellow in Data Integration and Cybersecurity
School of Computer Science
Richard Thomas is a UKRRIN Industrial Fellow in Data Integration and Cybersecurity.
His Ph.D. Thesis reviewed the cybersecurity for some of the UK and European railway standards, identifying the challenges and proposing solutions to ensure future security. His research interests include the security of the ‘industrial internet-of-things’ and how we can leverage the wealth of ...
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- +44 (0) 121 414 8707
- Email
- r.j.thomas@bham.ac.uk

Interdisciplinary Professorial Fellow in Law, Ethics and Informatics
Birmingham Law School
Karen Yeung joined Birmingham Law School and the University of Birmingham’s School of Computer Science as Interdisciplinary Professorial Fellow in Law, Ethics and Informatics in January 2018.
Karen is actively involved in several technology policy and related initiatives in the UK and worldwide, including those concerned with the governance of AI, one of her key research ...
- Telephone
- +44 (0) 121 414 6298
- Email
- k.yeung@bham.ac.uk