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Dr Richard Smith, Associate Professor / Head of Cyber Security Centre / Director of Cyber Technology Institute / Associate Head of School (Enterprise)

Research interests: Industrial Control System security, Security of Critical National Infrastructure, Incident Response, Cyber Exercising, Cyber Ranges, Threat Analysis

E: rgs@dmu.ac.uk


Dr Iryna Yevseyeva, Associate Professor in Computer Science

Research Interests: Optimisation, decision-analysis in cyber security, human aspects of cyber security

E: iryna.yevseyeva@dmu.ac.uk


 Professor Eerke Boiten, Head of School of Computer Science and Informatics

Research interests: Data protection, Privacy, GDPR, Privacy Impact Assessment, Cyber crime, Cyber intelligence sharing, Formal methods, Refinement

E: eerke.boiten@dmu.ac.uk 


Dr Ali Al-Bayatti, Associate Professor in Cyber Security / Subject Group Leader for Cyber Security

Research interests: Intelligent mobility, Autonomous vehicles

E: alihmohd@dmu.ac.uk


Dr Abdulaleem Al-Othmani, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science (TNE) 

Research interests: Information Security, Steganography & Watermarking, Speech Signal Processing, Mobile Communication Security, Data Leak Prevention

E: abdulaleem@dmu.ac.uk


 Dr Abdulghani Al-Yamani, Senior Lecturer in Digital Forensics

Research Interests: Digital Forensics, botnet detection, big data analysis

E: aa.ahmed@dmu.ac.uk


Dr Muhammed Ali Bingol, Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security

Research interests: Cryptography:wireless communication security, Designing and analysing cryptographic protocols, RFID security, blockchain security & privacy, Zero-knowledge proofs, secure multi-party computation, Private function evaluation, Authentication systems, e-voting

E: muhammed.bingol@dmu.ac.uk


Dr Nicholas Ayres, Lecturer in Cyber Security

Research interests: Automotive hardware and software / Automotive Security / Cyber-physical Systems / Virtualisation Security / Social Engineering, Incident Response

E: nick.ayres@dmu.ac.uk

Professor Edward Cartwright, Professor of Economics, Leicester Castle Business School

E: edward.cartwright@dmu.ac.uk


Dr Feng Chen, Senior Lecturer / Co-ordinator of DTP in Cyber Technology

Research interests: Smart technologies, software evolution, adaptive software

E: fengchen@dmu.ac.uk


Mrs May Docherty

Interests: Research and Commercial Development

E: may.docherty@dmu.ac.uk 


Sarah De'Ath, Lecturer in Digital Forensics

Research interests: Digital Forensics, Cyber Education

E: sarah.hd@dmu.ac.uk


 

Mr John Files, Senior Technical Analyst

E: jhf@dmu.ac.uk


Dr Vasileios Germanos, Lecturer in Computer Science

Research interests: Formal methods, pi-Calculus, Petri nets, diagnosis, distributed and concurrent systems, information security, security policies, IoT, cloud computing, robotics

E: vasileios.germanos@dmu.ac.uk


Mr Clinton Ingrams, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science

Research interests: Security of web applications, Penetration testing

E: cfi@dmu.ac.uk


Dr Ali Jwaid, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science

Research Interests: Data Science for IoT in Healthcare, renewable energy, and STEM teaching and learning.

E: ali.jwaid@dmu.ac.uk


Dr Peyman Kabiri, Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security

Research Interests: Network Security, Intrusion Detection and Response and related areas, Remote Sensing, Acoustic Emission based Condition Monitoring (Non Destructive Testing), Sound analysis and Music Information Retrieval (MIR), Many-Valued Logic, Robotics

E: peyman.kabiri@dmu.ac.uk


Dr Laleh Kasraian, Senior Lecturer in Information Systems

Research interests: IS/IT Service Co-Production, Service Innovation, Service Design Methodologies

E: laleh.kasraian@dmu.ac.uk


Dr Asmau Kazaure, Lecturer in Cyber Security

Research Interests: IoT behavioral analysis, IoT security, DDoS attacks, pattern recognition, IDS, feature engineering

E: asmau.kazaure@dmu.ac.uk


Dr Muhammad Kazim, Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security

Research Interests: Cloud computing, Edge computing and AI, Internet of things security, Data Science, Software Engineering

E: muhammad.kazim@dmu.ac.uk


Dr Sarmadullah Khan, Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security / Programme Leader for MSc Cyber Technology, MSc Software Engineering, MSc Cyber Security, MSc Professional Practice in Digital Forensics and Security

Research interests: IoT security, Wireless sensor networks security, Content centric networks security, Key establishment and management

E: sarmadullah.khan@dmu.ac.uk


Dr Mehmet Kiraz, Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security

Research interests: Cryptographic Protocols, Privacy, Secure Multi-Party Computation,  PKI, Certificate Transparency,  Zero-Knowledge Protocols, Homomorphic Encryption, Threshold Cryptography, Pairing-Based Cryptography, Electronic Voting, Cloud Security, Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, Multi-Party Threshold ECDSA, Crypto Wallets.

E: mehmet.kiraz@dmu.ac.uk


Dr Francisco Aparicio Navarro, Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security / Programme Leader Apprenticeships MSc Digital Technology Solutions Specialist

Research interests: Network Security, Intrusion Detection, Penetration Testing, Machine Learning, Network Traffic Analysis

E: fnavarro@dmu.ac.uk


Dr Stuart O'Connor, Lecturer in Computer Science

Research interests: Gamification, Intelligent Agents, Perceptual Evaluation, Psychophysics, Serious Games, User-Centered,  Virtual Environments.

E: stuart.oconnor@dmu.ac.uk


Dr Fatemah Raji, Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security

Research Interests: Cloud Computing, Privacy and Security Engineering, Responsible AI

E: fatemah.raji@dmu.ac.uk


Dr Mujeeb Rehman, Lecturer in Computer Science

Research Interests: AI, Cyber Security in Healthcare

E: mujeeb.rehman@dmu.ac.uk


Dr Keith Scott, Senior Lecturer in English Langauage

Research Interests: Information Warfare/Information Operations, Cyber Warfare, Corpus Linguistics, Influence and Persuasion, above all in an online setting, The history and sociocultural nature of 'Cyber'

E:jklscott@dmu.ac.uk


 

Dr Francois Siewe, Reader in Computer Science / Head of STRL

Research interests: Modelling of context aware and pervasive systems

E: fsiewe@dmu.ac.uk


Dr David Smallwood, Associate Professor

Research interests: Procedural and functional programming / Formal Methods

E: drs@dmu.ac.uk


Dr Martin Stacey, Senior Lecturer

Research Interests: Design thinking, Design processes, Human Design Tool Interaction

E: mstacey@dmu.ac.uk


Dr Ismini Vasileiou, Associate Professor

Research interests: Security Education, Information Systems, Big Data, Learning Analytics, Social Engineering, Flexible Learning

E: ismini.vasileiou@dmu.ac.uk


Dr Mustafa Kaiiali, Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security

Research interests: Cloud Security, Usable Security, Identity Access Management, Malware Analysis

E: mustafa.kaiiali@dmu.ac.uk


Dr Fatemeh Sh. Zarrabi, Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security

Research interests: Information Security, Cyber Security,  Data Protection,  GDPR Compliance, Risk Analysis, Privacy, Privacy by Design, IT Law, Software engineering, Requirement engineering, Knowledge-based Management, Semantic Web 

E: f.zarrabi@dmu.ac.uk


Visiting professors

Professor Thomas Brandstetter, Honorary Visiting Professor in Cyber Security
Managing Director of Limes Security / Professor of Computer Security at the University of Applied Sciences, St Poelten, Austria


Professor Allan Cook, Visiting Professor in Cyber Risk
Associate Director Cyber, Risk Advisory / Deloitte


Keith Cottenden, Honorary Visiting Professor in Digital Forensics
Head of Digital Forensics & Incident Response / 3B Data Security


Chris Hurran OBE, Honorary Visiting Lecturer in Cyber Security
Director of Cyber Security Challenge and Company Secretary


Professor Helge Janicke, Honorary Visiting Professor in Cyber Security
Research Director / Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre, Australia


Professor Andy Jones, Honorary Visiting Professor in Digital Forensics
Director of the Cyber Security Centre / University of Hertfordshire


Dr Kevin Jones, Honorary Visiting Professor in Cyber Security
Head of Cyber Security Architecture, Innovation and Scouting / Airbus


Ian Mann, Honorary Visiting Lecturer in Cyber Security
Director of ECSC


Dr Robert Oates, Honorary Visiting Professor of Cyber Security and Safety
Global Software Development Lead / Rolls-Royce


Robert Partridge, Honorary Visiting Professor in Cyber Security Education
Head of Business Development, Red Team / BT


Colin Williams, Honorary Visiting Professor in Cyber Security
Director of SoftBox