Cyber Security and Privacy

image of sky view of busy road at night with bright lightsOur 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. 

Theme Lead

Theme Members

 

Dr Luca Arnaboldi

Dr Luca Arnaboldi

Assistant Professor

School of Computer Science

Dr Luca Arnaboldi is an Assistant Professor of Cyber Security in School of Computer Science. His research currently focuses on security of autonomous systems, explainable AI and formal verification of machine learning algorithms. He is a passionate award-winning educator with focus on hybrid and blended teaching methods in Cyber Security Higher Education.

His main research interests lie at the ...

Email
l.arnaboldi@bham.ac.uk

Dr Rishiraj Bhattacharyya

Dr Rishiraj Bhattacharyya

Assistant Professor in Cyber Security

School of Computer Science

Dr Rishiraj Bhattacharyya is an assistant professor in the School of Computer Science. Previously, he held academic positions at the School of Computer Science at NISER, India, and the R. C. Bose Centre for Cryptology and Security at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. Prior to that he was a post-doctoral researcher at the ARIC team of ENS-Lyon. He received his PhD from Indian ...

Email
r.bhattacharyya@bham.ac.uk

Professor Tom Chothia

Professor of Cyber Security
Head of External Partnerships of Computer Science

School of Computer Science

Tom Chothia is a Professor 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

Dr Mihai Ordean

Dr Mihai Ordean

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

Professor David Oswald

Professor David Oswald

Professor in Computer Security
Head of Research of Computer Science

School of Computer Science

David Oswald is a Full Professor in the Centre for Cyber Security and Privacy at the University of Birmingham, UK. His main field of research is the security of embedded systems and trusted execution. 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 Aad van Moorsel

Professor Aad van Moorsel

Head of School of Computer Science
Chair in Decentralised Systems

School of Computer Science

Aad van Moorsel is Professor and Head of the School of Computer Science at University of Birmingham. He is the Principal Investigator of UKFin, the UKRI EPSRC Network in Financial Services, which kicks off September 2022 to provide an interface between academia and industry.

In his current research he is spearheading efforts in financial inclusion in collaboration with Atom Bank and the Bill ...

Email
a.vanmoorsel@bham.ac.uk

Professor Karen Yeung

Professor Karen Yeung

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. Her research has been at the forefront of understanding the challenges associated with the regulation and governance of emerging technologies.  Over the course of more than 25 ...

Telephone
+44 (0) 121 414 6298
Email
k.yeung@bham.ac.uk