Professor Aad van Moorsel PhD

Professor Aad van Moorsel

School of Computer Science
Head of School of Computer Science
Chair in Decentralised Systems

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School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Aad van Moorsel is Professor in Decentralised Systems and Head of the School of Computer Science at University of Birmingham. He is the Principal Investigator of UKFin+, the UKRI EPSRC NetworkPlus in Financial Services, which aims to support research collaborations between academia and industry.

Prior to joining Birmingham he established Newcastle University's NCSC/EPSRC Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research and pioneered degree apprenticeships as Director of the Institute of Coding at Newcastle. He was also at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign as a postdoctoral researcher in the Coordinated Science Laboratory. 

During his time at Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs Research and HP Labs he gained ample experience of industry-style research and research management, and he co-founded the startup CloudIdentity Ltd in human-centric identity management, which since has been successfully sold.

He is the author of over 200 peer-reviewed research articles and of 4 US patents.  For Professor Aad van Moorsel's publications, please see Aad's Google Scholar profile.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Kolomeets, M, Wu, H, Shi, L & Van Moorsel, A 2025, 'The Face of Deception: The Impact of AI-Generated Photos on Malicious Social Bots', IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 1080-1091. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSS.2024.3461328

Smuseva, D, Marin, A, Rossi, S & Van Moorsel, APA 2025, 'Verifier's Dilemma in Proof-of-Work Public Blockchains: A Quantitative Analysis', ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, vol. 35, no. 2, 12. https://doi.org/10.1145/3723874

Alharby, M, Alssaiari, A, Alateef, S, Thomas, N & Moorsel, AV 2024, 'A quantitative analysis of the security of PoW-based blockchains', Cluster Computing, vol. 27, no. 10, pp. 14113-14130. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-024-04645-7

Toreini, E, Mehrnezhad, M & van Moorsel, A 2024, 'Fairness as a Service (FaaS): verifiable and privacy-preserving fairness auditing of machine learning systems', International Journal of Information Security, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 981-997. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10207-023-00774-z

Elliott, K, Coopamootoo, K, Curran, E, Ezhilchelvan, P, Finnigan, S, Horsfall, D, Ma, Z, Ng, M, Spiliotopoulos, T, Wu, H & Van moorsel, A 2022, 'Know your customer: balancing innovation and regulation for financial inclusion', Data & Policy, vol. 4, e34. https://doi.org/10.1017/dap.2022.23

Alharby, M & van Moorsel, A 2022, 'Simulating permissionless blockchains: Distribution fitting, tool support, and a case study', International Journal of Network Management, vol. 32, no. 2, e2184. https://doi.org/10.1002/nem.2184

Chapter

Lunardi, RC, Michelin, RA, Alharby, M, Dedeoglu, V, Nunes, HC, Arruda, E, Zorzo, AF & van Moorsel, A 2025, When Blockchain Meets Smart Cities: Opportunities, Security and Future Research. in S Ruj, SS Kanhere & M Conti (eds), Blockchains: A Handbook on Fundamentals, Platforms and Applications. 1 edn, Advances in Information Security, vol. 105, Springer, Cham, pp. 423-463. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32146-7_14

Conference contribution

Lam, CFD, Wu, H, Pourmirza, Z & Van Moorsel, A 2025, Exploring Federated Learning for Energy Consumption Forecasting in Smart Homes. in 2024 IEEE 8th Conference on Energy Internet and Energy System Integration (EI2) . IEEE Conference on Energy Internet and Energy System Integration (EI2), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 192-197, 8th IEEE Conference on Energy Internet and Energy System Integration, EI2 2024, Shenyang, China, 29/11/24. https://doi.org/10.1109/EI264398.2024.10991402

Zhao, Z, Wu, H, van Moorsel, A & Chen, LY 2025, GTV: Generating Tabular Data via Vertical Federated Learning. in M Cinque, D Cotroneo, L De Simone, M Eckhart, PPC Lee & S Zonouz (eds), 2025 55th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2025). Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), IEEE, pp. 33-46, 55th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, DSN 2025, Naples, Italy, 23/06/25. https://doi.org/10.1109/DSN64029.2025.00019

Toreini, E, Mehrnezhad, M & van Moorsel, A 2024, Verifiable Fairness: Privacy–preserving Computation of Fairness for Machine Learning Systems. in S Katsikas, H Abie, S Ranise, L Verderame, E Cambiaso, R Ugarelli, I Praça, W Li, W Meng, S Furnell, B Katt, S Pirbhulal, A Shukla, M Ianni, M Dalla Preda, K-KR Choo, M Pupo Correia, A Abhishta, G Sileno, M Alishahi, H Kalutarage & N Yanai (eds), Computer Security. ESORICS 2023 International Workshops: CPS4CIP, ADIoT, SecAssure, WASP, TAURIN, PriST-AI, and SECAI, The Hague, The Netherlands, September 25–29, 2023, Revised Selected Papers, Part II. 1 edn, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 14399, Springer, pp. 569-584, International Workshops which were held in conjunction with 28th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2023, The Hague, Netherlands, 25/09/23. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54129-2_34

Zilius, K, Spiliotopoulos, T & Moorsel, AV 2023, A dataset of coordinated cryptocurrency-related social media campaigns. in Y-R Lin, M Cha & D Quercia (eds), Proceedings of the Seventeenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media., vol. 17, AAAI Press, pp. 1112-1121, Seventeenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2023), Limassol, Cyprus, 5/06/23. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v17i1.22219

Wu, H, Qian, H, Wu, H & van Moorsel, A 2023, LDRNet: Enabling Real-Time Document Localization on Mobile Devices. in I Koprinska, P Mignone, R Guidotti, S Jaroszewicz, H Fröning, F Gullo, PM Ferreira, D Roqueiro, G Ceddia, S Nowaczyk, J Gama, R Ribeiro, R Gavaldà, E Masciari, Z Ras, E Ritacco, F Naretto, A Theissler, P Biecek, W Verbeke, G Schiele, F Pernkopf, M Blott, I Bordino, IL Danesi, G Ponti, L Severini, A Appice, G Andresini, I Medeiros, G Graça, L Cooper, N Ghazaleh, J Richiardi, D Saldana, K Sechidis, A Canakoglu, S Pido, P Pinoli, A Bifet & S Pashami (eds), Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases: International Workshops of ECML PKDD 2022, Grenoble, France, September 19–23, 2022, Proceedings, Part I. 1 edn, Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 1752, Springer, pp. 618-629, Workshops on SoGood, NFMCP, XKDD, UMOD, ITEM, MIDAS, MLCS, MLBEM, PharML, DALS, IoT-PdM 2022, held in conjunction with the 21st Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2022, Grenoble, France, 19/09/22. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23618-1_42

Wu, H, Zhao, Z, Chen, LY & van Moorsel, A 2022, Federated Learning for Tabular Data: Exploring Potential Risk to Privacy. in 2022 IEEE 33rd International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE). International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, IEEE, pp. 193-204. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSRE55969.2022.00028

Smuseva, D, Malakhov, I, Marin, A, van Moorsel, A & Rossi, S 2022, Verifier’s Dilemma in Ethereum Blockchain: A Quantitative Analysis. in E Ábrahám & M Paolieri (eds), Quantitative Evaluation of Systems: 19th International Conference, QEST 2022, Warsaw, Poland, September 12–16, 2022, Proceedings. 1 edn, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 13479, Springer, pp. 317-336, 19th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems, QEST 2022, Warsaw, Poland, 12/09/22. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16336-4_16

Preprint

Ng, M, Coopamootoo, KPL, Spiliotopoulos, T, Horsfall, D, Aitken, M, Toreini, E, Elliott, K & Moorsel, AV 2022 'In private, secure, conversational FinBots we trust' arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2204.10344

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