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| Member | Research Interests | Contact Information |
|---|---|---|
 Budi Arief Senior Lecturer & KirCCS Innovation and External Liaison Lead School of Computing |
Cyber crime, human factors in security, internet of things security and privacy | B.Arief@kent.ac.uk |
 Mark Batty Senior Lecturer & Head of Programming Languages and Systems Group School of Computing |
Formal specification of languages and architectures, verification, validation tools and proofs of security properties | M.J.Batty@kent.ac.uk |
 Sanjay Bhattacherjee Lecturer in Cyber Security School of Computing |
Cryptography, voting games, blockchains and cryptocurrencies | S.Bhattacherjee@kent.ac.uk |
 Theodosios Dimitrakos Professor of Computer Science School of Computing |
Cloud security | T.Dimitrakos@kent.ac.uk |
 Virginia Franqueira Lecturer in Cyber Security School of Computing |
Digital forensics, cybercrime investigation, visual content analysis, and cyber security (engineering, assessment and management) | V.Franqueira@kent.ac.uk |
 Richard Guest Professor in Biometric Systems Engineering; Head of School School of Engineering and Digital Arts |
Biometrics, Identity Management | R.M.Guest@kent.ac.uk |
 Julio Hernandez-Castro Professor; KirCCS Deputy Director School of Computing |
RFID, Computer Security, Cryptography, Steganography, Computer Forensics, Cyber Crime | J.C.Hernandez-Castro@kent.ac.uk |
 Sanaul Hoque Lecturer in Secure Systems Engineering School of Engineering and Digital Arts |
Biometrics, computer vision, OCR, multi-expert fusion, document modelling | S.Hoque@kent.ac.uk |
 Gareth Howells Professor of Secure Electronic Systems; KirCCS Deputy Director School of Computing |
Biometrics, template-free encryption, authentication | W.G.J.Howells@kent.ac.uk |
 Özgür Kafalı Lecturer in Cyber Security School of Computing |
Socio-technical and human factors in cybersecurity, security requirements engineering, formal breach analysis, digital forensics | R.O.Kafali@kent.ac.uk |
 Stephen Kell Lecturer School of Computing |
Programming language and system security, especially combining static and dynamic program analysis | S.R.Kell@kent.ac.uk |
 Rogério de Lemos Senior Lecturer School of Computing |
Architecting dependable and secure systems, Self-adaptive software systems, Bioinspired computing applied to dependability and security | R.Delemos@kent.ac.uk |
 Shujun Li Professor of Cyber Security; KirCCS Director School of Computing |
Socio-technical security, privacy, human factors, digital forensics and cybercrime, false information, information hiding and multimedia security, social media analytics, applications of artificial intelligence / information visualisation / discrete optimisation in cyber security | S.J.Li@kent.ac.uk |
 Jason Nurse Senior Lecturer; KirCCS Public Engagement Lead School of Computing |
Interaction between users and aspects of cyber security, privacy and trust such as identity security and privacy risks in cyberspace, privacy and security in the internet-of-things and social media, fake news and rumours on social media, and technical and psychological aspects of cybercrime | J.R.C.Nurse@kent.ac.uk |
 Carlos Pérez-Delgado Lecturer School of Computing |
Quantum Computation and Information, with Security Applications | C.Perez@kent.ac.uk |
| Member | Research Interests | Contact Information |
|---|---|---|
| Tim Aistrope Lecturer in International Relations School of Politics and International Relations |
International security, post-truth politics, online radicalisation, legitimising dynamics of social practices | T.G.Aistrope@kent.ac.uk |
| Chee Siang (Jim) Ang Senior Lecturer in Multimedia/Digital Systems School of Computing |
Information assurance science, building trusted and trustworthy systems, IoT | C.S.Ang@kent.ac.uk |
| Samer Bagaeen Professor of Planning Kent School of Architecture |
Urban & climate resilience, city diplomacy and wider engagement, urban gating, brownfield regeneration, community & neighbourhood planning | S.Bagaeen@kent.ac.uk |
| John Batchelor Professor of Antenna Technology School of Engineering and Digital Arts |
Hardware engineering, side channel and fault analysis, operational technology security | J.C.Batchelor@kent.ac.uk |
| David Barnes Senior Lecturer School of Computing |
Information risk, information assurance science, engineering processes and assurance | D.J.Barnes@kent.ac.uk |
| Margherita Belgioioso Lecturer in International Security and Conflict Analysis School of Politics and International Relations |
International security, conflict analysis | m.belgioioso@kent.ac.uk |
| Laura Bocchi Senior Lecturer School of Computing |
Engineering processes and assurance, building trusted and trustworthy systems, behavioural APIs for secure communicating systems | L.Bocchi@kent.ac.uk |
| Howard Bowman Professor of Cognition & Logic School of Computing |
Human behaviour in cyber forensics, information risk | H.Bowman@kent.ac.uk |
| Anna Brown Reader in Psychological Methods and Statistics School of Psychology |
Psychological measurement, psychometric testing, test validity, test fairness, response biases, impression management and faking | A.A.Brown@kent.ac.uk |
| Adam Burgess Director, Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty research cluster & Professor of Risk Research School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research (SSPSSR) |
Guidance on risk management for cyber security | A.Burgess@kent.ac.uk |
| Jack Cunliffe Lecturer in Quantitative Methods and Criminology School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research (SSPSSR) |
Cybercrime, illicit trade, Tor, operations security, social implications of blockchain and cryptocurrencies | J.D.Cunliffe@kent.ac.uk |
| Lisa Dickson Reader and Co-Deputy Head of School Kent Law School |
Data protection, privacy, cyber crime, forensic science | L.M.Dickson@kent.ac.uk |
| Karen Douglas Professor of Social Psychology School of Psychology |
Information assurance science, building trusted and trustworthy systems | K.Douglas@kent.ac.uk |
| Christos Efstratiou Senior Lecturer in Ubiquitous Computing School of Computing |
Information risk, building trusted and trustworthy systems, operational technology security, IoT | C.Efstratiou@kent.ac.uk |
| Chris Farmer Clinical Professor Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS), School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research (SSPSSR) & Consultant Renal Physician East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust (EKHUFT) |
Digital healthcare including applications of AI in healthcare, ethics and privacy, data security, accessibility | C.Farmer-357@kent.ac.uk |
| Alex Freitas Professor of Computational Intelligence and Head of Computational Intelligence research group School of Computing |
Applications of classification methods and biologically-inspired algorithms to cyber security | A.A.Freitas@kent.ac.uk |
| Steven Gao Professor of RF and Microwave Engineering School of Engineering and Digital Arts |
Hardware engineering, side channel and fault analysis | S.Gao@kent.ac.uk |
| Stuart Gibson Senior Lecturer in Forensic Science School of Physical Sciences |
Face processing and photo forensics, information assurance science | S.J.Gibson@kent.ac.uk |
| Marek Grzes Lecturer School of Computing |
Sequential decision making and decision theory, machine learning and optimisation, probabilistic graphical models, applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence | M.Grzes@kent.ac.uk |
| Radu Grigore Senior Lecturer School of Computing |
Strategic technologies and products, side channel and fault analysis | R.Grigore@kent.ac.uk |
| Andy Hone Professor of Mathematics & EPSRC Established Career Fellow (2014-2020) School of Mathematics, Statistics & Actuarial Science |
Factorization algorithms, primality testing, pseudorandom number generators, elliptic curves. | a.n.w.hone@kent.ac.uk |
| Tim Hopthrow Reader in Psychology, School of Psychology Associate Dean for Research and Innovation, Faculty of Social Sciences |
Information risk, risk-based decision-making in groups | T.Hopthrow@kent.ac.uk |
| Timothy King Senior Lecturer in Finance, Banking and Innovation Kent Business School |
Banks, corporate governance, corporate finance, corporate social responsibility (CSR), Fintech, risk-taking | T.P.King@kent.ac.uk |
| Lisa Lin Lecturer in Media Studies School of Arts |
Shifting production cultures of Internet-distributed television and how digital technologies have empowered a new era of creative freedoms among media practitioners | l.lin@kent.ac.uk |
| Alan McKenna Lecturer in Law Kent Law School |
Information assurance science, building trusted and trustworthy systems, cross domain working | A.V.Mckenna@kent.ac.uk |
| Matteo Migliavacca Senior Lecturer School of Computing |
Secure event processing, runtime taint tracking and information flow control in programming languages | M.Migliavacca@kent.ac.uk |
| Vince Miller Reader in Sociology and Cultural Studies & Head of School School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research (SSPSSR) |
Critical theorisation of the concept of security and vulnerability, ethics, presence, identity and ontology, and different forms of socially-related online crime and theories of contagion as related to the internet | V.Miller@kent.ac.uk |
| Gareth Mott Lecturer in Security and Intelligence School of Politics and International Relations |
Discursively constructed identities in cyberspace, governance of Blockchain and other peer-to-peer technologies, countering violent extremist applications of novel software | G.Mott@kent.ac.uk |
| Dominic Orchard Lecturer School of Computing |
Privacy protection, strategic technologies and products | D.A.Orchard@kent.ac.uk |
| Thanos Papadopoulos Professor of Management (Operations Management / Information Systems) Kent Business School |
Information risk, information assurance science | A.Papadopoulos@kent.ac.uk |
| Afroditi Pina Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychology & Chair of University Harassment Contact Network School of Psychology |
Cyber-harassment, cyberstalking, image based sexual abuse, hate speech, online misogyny | A.Pina@kent.ac.uk |
| Palaniappan Ramaswamy Reader & Head of Data Science research group School of Computing |
Strategic technologies and products, biometrics in identity assurance, building trusted and trustworthy systems | R.Palani@kent.ac.uk |
| Jane Reeves Co-Director, Centre for Child Protection & Professor of Teaching, Learning and Innovation in Child Protection (CCP) School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research (SSPSSR) |
Online child protection, cybercrime | J.Reeves@kent.ac.uk |
| David Roberts Reader in Biodiversity Conservation School of Anthropology & Conservation |
Illegal online wildlife trade on both the clear and darknet, application of extinction modelling to security | D.L.Roberts@kent.ac.uk |
| Peter Rodgers Professor of Visual Computing, Director of Research & Deputy Head of School School of Computing |
Applications of visualization in cyber security, information risk | P.J.Rodgers@kent.ac.uk |
| Maria Paola Scaparra Professor in Management Science & Head of Management Science research group Kent Business School |
Information risk, information assurance science | M.P.Scaparra@kent.ac.uk |
| Mahmood Shafiee Reader in Mechanical Engineering & Head of Mechanical Engineering Group School of Engineering and Digital Arts |
Cyber-physical systems, industrial IoT, industrial control systems, infrastructure protection, intelligent transport systems | m.shafiee@kent.ac.uk |
| Konstantinos Sirlantzis Senior Lecturer in Intelligent Systems & Director of Graduate Studies (Research) School of Engineering and Digital Arts |
Strategic technologies and products, biometrics in identity assurance, building trusted and trustworthy systems | K.Sirlantzis@kent.ac.uk |
| Christopher Solomon Reader in Physics School of Physical Sciences |
Information assurance science, building trusted and trustworthy systems, cross domain working | C.J.Solomon@kent.ac.uk |
| Simon Thompson Emeritus Professor of Logic and Computation School of Computing |
Strategic technologies and products, side channel and fault analysis | S.J.Thompson@kent.ac.uk |
| Harmonie Toros Reader in International Conflict Analysis School of Politics and International Relations |
Terrorism studies and critical terrorism studies, conflict resolution and conflict transformation, critical security studies and ethnography of violence | H.Toros@kent.ac.uk |
| Paraskevi Triantafyllopoulou Lecturer in Intellectual and Developmental Disability The Tizard Centre, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research (SSPSSR) |
Intellectual disabilities, healthcare, online risks | P.Triantafyllopoulou@kent.ac.uk |
| Elke Van Hellemont Lecturer in Criminology The Tizard Centre, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research (SSPSSR) |
Cybercrime, social deviance, seduction of crime within the processes of globalisation and a global mediascape | e.van-hellemont@kent.ac.uk |
| Zaki Wahhaj Reader in Economics School of Economics |
Economic development and applied theory, social norms and household decision-making in developing countries, including work on extended family networks, risk-sharing and formal insurance, microfinance, the impact of formal law on customary practices and issues relating to early marriage and female education | Z.Wahhaj@kent.ac.uk |
| Jiangzhou Wang FREng Professor of Telecommunications School of Engineering and Digital Arts |
Physical level security in wireless and mobile communications | J.Z.Wang@kent.ac.uk |
| Pamela M. White Lecturer Medical Law Kent Law School |
Data protection, privacy, cyberlaw, law and medical ethics | p.white-229@kent.ac.uk |
| Shaomin Wu Professor in Business/Applied Statistics Kent Business School |
Information risk, information assurance science, building trusted and trustworthy systems, cross domain working | S.M.Wu@kent.ac.uk |
| Jian Zhang Professor of Statistics & Head of Statistics group School of Mathematics, Statistics & Actuarial Science |
Applying statistical methods to cyber security applications, information Risk | J.Zhang-79@kent.ac.uk |
| Member | Research Interests | Contact Information |
|---|---|---|
 David Chadwick Emeritus Professor of Information Systems Security School of Computing |
Identity management, Verifiable Credentials, public key infrastructures, PERMIS, open source authorisation infrastructure (PMI), autonomic security, trust and reputation management, cloud security | D.W.Chadwick@kent.ac.uk |
 Farzin Deravi Emeritus Professor of Information Engineering School of Engineering and Digital Arts |
Biometrics | F.Deravi@kent.ac.uk |
 Andy King Emeritus Professor in Program Analysis School of Computing |
Vulnerability discovery using program analysis techniques, reverse engineering tools for white-hat hackers | A.M.King@kent.ac.uk |
| Jeremy Rossman Honorary Senior Lecturer in Virology School of Biosciences |
Bio-inspired methods, information risk, information assurance science | J.S.Rossman@kent.ac.uk |
| Klaus McDonald-Maier Visiting Professor School of Engineering and Digital Arts |
Embedded Systems and System-on-Chip (SoC) design, development support and technology; VLSI; Digital Signal Processing (DSP) and processor technology; optoelectronic computing architectures; parallel and distributed architectures offering vast processing power for robotics, image processing and other real-time critical applications; biologically inspired and mobile robots; and application of AI for real world problems and robot control | k.mcdonald-maier@kent.ac.uk |
| Member | Project | Contact Information |
|---|---|---|
| Osama Abu Oun School of Computing |
Quantum Communications Hub 2 (EPSRC) | O.Abu-Oun@kent.ac.uk |
| Ben Barnes School of Computing |
Robust Video Watermarking (Huawei funded) | B.Barnes-427@kent.ac.uk |
| Hazal Su Bicakci School of Engineering and Digital Arts |
ECG/Heartrate biometric authentication from wearable devices (Turkish government) | hb488@kent.ac.uk |
| Teodors Eglitis School of Engineering and Digital Arts |
AMBER (EU MCSA ITN) | T.Eglitis@kent.ac.uk |
| Elakkiya Ellavarason School of Engineering and Digital Arts |
AMBER (EU MCSA ITN) | E.Ellavarason@kent.ac.uk |
| Michael Gillham School of Engineering and Digital Arts |
EDUCAT (Interreg) / SANAS (Wellcome Trust) | M.Gillham@kent.ac.uk |
| Yang Lu School of Computing |
PriVELT (EPSRC) | Y.Lu@kent.ac.uk |
| Marco Santopietro School of Engineering and Digital Arts |
Behavioural biometrics (CallSign) | ms2101@kent.ac.uk |