Cyber Security Conference Biographies

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1 Cyber Security Conference Biographies Louisa-Jayne O Neill, Vice Chairman, IAAC Louisa-Jayne (L-J) O Neill is Vice Chairman of the Information Assurance Advisory Council (IAAC), which brings together government, business and academia on issues relating to cyber security. Within IAAC she also chairs the Academic Liaison Panel whose members include over 100 leading cyber security specialists as well as representatives from CESG, DCMS and Cabinet Office. Louisa-Jayne began her career at the Foreign Office, including postings to Bangkok and to Banja Luka, Bosnia. She transferred to the Cabinet Office, initially as lead desk officer during the Kosovo intervention, and was subsequently appointed Principal Private Secretary to the Minister of State. Having gained a Masters in Public Administration at Harvard Kennedy School she returned to Cabinet Office as head of Business Assurance within an ICT-enabled change programme aimed at improving information sharing across 10 government departments and agencies. She was subsequently Senior Executive at Montrose Associates, providing strategic advice to FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 companies operating globally. Louisa-Jayne is a Fellow of the British American Project, a Transatlantic think tank, and is a mentor with Crossing Thresholds, a programme to encourage women into the senior levels of the UK Civil Service. A member of the Future Analysts Network, Louisa-Jayne has contributed articles on the application of complexity theory to public policy-making. She participated in the UK Canada colloquium on cyber security and has developed the sharing of information assurance best practice with entities in South Africa, Singapore and, most recently, Australia Dr Dianne Van Hemert, TNO, Human Behaviour and Organisational Innovations Dianne van Hemert studied psychology and received her PhD in cross-cultural psychology in She has extensive experience in leading and conducting cultural and social psychology studies for the Netherlands MoD, the UK MoD, the Dutch Police, and the European Union. She participated in research on radicalisation (e.g., FP7 project SAFIRE), deviant behaviour in public areas, cyber security, measuring skills and competences, cultural differences and similarities, behavioural influence, modelling behaviour, and non-lethal weapons. Dianne is a member of the editorial board of the Dutch Journal for Security. Professor Alastair Irons, University of Sunderland Alastair is Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computing, Engineering and Technology (CET) at the University of Sunderland where his subject interests focus on computer forensics, cyber security and big data. Prior to joining the University of Sunderland in September 2008 he worked at ONE North East, Northumbria University and ICI. Alastair became a National Teaching Fellow in He serves on the management boards of DYNAMO, Digital Leaders North East, and the North East Fraud Forum. He is chair of number of groups in the British Computer Society Academic Accreditation Committee, Cybercrime Forensics Special Interest Group and the BCS NE England branch. Previously he chaired the Learning Development Group for CPHC. Mr Harjinder Singh Lallie Mr Harjinder Lallie holds a BSc and an MSc from Birmingham City University and an MPhil from the University of Birmingham. He joined WMG in Harjinder is a Senior Teaching Fellow responsible for the coordination and organisation of the MSc Cyber Security and Management masters programme. Harjinder is an experienced academic who has more than 13 years of teaching and tutoring experience in the areas of Information Security, Security Protocols and Digital Forensics.

2 Dr Alexeis Garcia-Perez, Coventry University Dr Alexeis Garcia-Perez is an expert in cyber security and knowledge & information risk management, and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. His original background in computer science was complemented by a PhD in knowledge management from Cranfield University and a level 5 Diploma in Management and Leadership from the Chartered Management Institute. Alexeis's socio-technical understanding of information systems has enabled him to focus on the wider challenges of data, information and knowledge management in organisations and society. Through collaborations with key industry players, including Siemens, General Electric, the Ministry of Defence and the Railway Safety and Standards Board, Alexeis has developed a management-led perspective for cyber security which combines people, processes and technologies to enable prevention, early detection effective analysis and the prompt response to cyber threads. In addition to leading cyber security management research, Alexeis is currently the course director for the MSc Cyber Security Management and acting course director for the MBA Cyber Security at Coventry University. Dr Chitra Balakrishna, Edge Hill University Chitra Balakrishna is a Senior Lecturer in Computing at Edge Hill University. She has over 16 years of experience spanning across academia and industry in the areas of Data Networking, Cyber Security, Mobile Communications, Technologies and Applications. In the past she has held academic positions at the University of South Wales prior to joining Edge Hill University in January 2013.Her areas of expertise are Internet of Things, Smart Cities and Applications and Gamification of Cyber education. She has been part of ERDF and FP7 project in the past and currently holds a grant from HEA. She has authored a popular book on IP Multimedia Subsystem by the John Wiley publications in 2009 and has several academic publications to her credit. She has co-founded the prestigious international academic conference and chairs an international workshop on Smart Cities and Application. Dr Chris Beaumont, Edge Hill University Chris Beaumont is currently Senior Lecturer in Learning & Teaching Development at Edge Hill University and has over 30 years experience teaching computing within Industry, School, FE and University. Previous roles included Head of Department of Computing at Edge Hill, and Deputy Director of the Write Now CETL at Liverpool Hope University. He was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship in Chris has a strong passion for both the dynamic subject of computing and for finding ways to improve student learning and ensure it is relevant to students. A particular focus of his work has been problem-based learning (PBL), an approach to learning that he has pioneered in computing for more than 15 years in varied environments including face-to-face, online and virtual worlds in the UK and in international contexts. Dr Z. Cliffe Schreuders, Leeds Beckett University Dr Z. Cliffe Schreuders is Director of the Cybercrime and Security Innovation Center (CSI Centre), and Senior Lecturer in Computer Security in the School of Computing, Creative Technologies and Engineering at Leeds Beckett University. Cliffe is currently leading two funded research projects, and is engaged in and coordinating collaborative research projects including: cybercrime and digital evidence in the police force; randomised capture the flag (CTF) hacking challenges VMs for computer security education; gamification applications to higher education; and designing usable mobile device security and access controls. Cliffe's research interests include computer security, application-oriented access controls and sandboxing, usable security, digital currencies and digital media distribution, and the methods and effects of free culture and open source software development. Dr Natalie Coull, Abertay University Natalie Coull is a Lecturer in the Division of Computing and Maths at the University of Abertay Dundee, Scotland. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of St Andrews and is the programme tutor for BSc Digital Forensics and MSc Ethical Hacking and Cyber Security. Natalie is part of the Tayside and Fife BCS committee and is currently on the SQA (Scottish Qualifications Framework) Cyber Security Award development team. Her research interests include system security, relevant legal frameworks and the wider context of cyber-crime and prevention measures. Teaching activities include a range of topics from Android Programming to Ethical Hacking and Network Forensics.

3 Mr David Chadwick, University of Greenwich Currently, senior lecturer specialising in teaching IT audit and cryptography on cyber security degrees and outreach. Is a team member in C-SAFE (Cyber-Security, Audit, Forensics Education) Centre which provides such teaching in all aspects of HE. David and his team have an interest in use of edutainment (education + entertainment) methods for teaching cybersecurity at all levels. Has worked in HE for 20years prior to which worked in various IT roles at British Telecom, GlaxoSmithKline and Lloyds of London. Professor William Buchanan, Edinburgh Napier University Bill Buchanan is a Professor in the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University, and a Fellow of the BCS and the IET. He currently leads the Centre for Distributed Computing, Networks, and Security and The Cyber Academy, and works in the areas of security, Cloud Security, Web-based infrastructures, e-crime, cryptography, triage, intrusion detection systems, digital forensics, mobile computing, agent-based systems, and security risk. Bill has one of the most extensive academic sites in the World, and is involved in many areas of novel research and teaching in computing. He has published over 27 academic books, and over 200 academic research papers, along with several awards for excellence in knowledge transfer, and for teaching, such as winning at the I my Tutor Awards (Student voted), Edinburgh Napier University, 2011, 2014 and 2015, and has supervised many award winning student projects. He was named as one of the Top 100 people for Technology in Scotland for 2012, 2013, 2014 and In Feb 2016, he was also included in the FutureScot "Top 50 Scottish Tech People Who Are Changing The World". Bill regularly appears on TV and radio related to computer security, and has a long track record in commercialisation activities, including being a co-founder of Zonefox and Symphonic Trust. He has created many innovations in teaching related to computer security, including being sole author on (Cisco Simulators), and (one of the most extensive computer security site for academic material in the World) and in creating DFET (an innovative Cloud training infrastructure for security and digital forensics training). Mr Oliver Bill, University of Southampton Oliver Bill originally studied Computer Science and Cybersecurity, followed by time in industry both in cybersecurity and in development, returning to university as a teaching fellow to take up teaching. His focus is on developing new forms of teaching, learning and assessment which are both enjoyable and relevant, with an emphasis on ensuring all teaching is on the cutting edge in the area of cybersecurity. Dr Basel Halak, University of Southampton Dr Basel Halak studied with the school of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Damascus University. He was awarded a first class honours BEng in Electronics Engineering in He then joined the MTN group, an international cellular network operator, where he worked as base station subsystems (BSS) engineer for two years. He was awarded MSc and PhD degrees in Microelectronics System Design from Newcastle University, UK in 2005 and 2009 respectively. He was then awarded a knowledge transfer fellowship to develop secure and energy efficient design for portable health care monitoring systems. In 2011, He joined the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK, where he is currently pursuing his research interests in reliable systems on a chip design technique, secure logic design, and VLSI circuits for communications. He has published a monograph and a number of IEEE papers in these areas. Dr Basel Halak is also a member of Hardware Security working group in the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Dr James Shuttleworth, Coventry University James is an Emacs user that justifies his habit by maintaining a career in academia, in which many text files are edited, much source code is wrangled and markups from org, to markdown to latex and html are abundant. Current research interests are in implementation of high-level security functionality in software defined networks, machine-learning for the detection of steganographic images, security issues in IoT environments and fuzzing at large and small scales. James currently teaches programming, algorithms and data structures as well as leading the undergraduate first-year cybersecurity activity-led learning (ALL) projects at Coventry University.

4 Major Tom Mouat, The Defence Academy of the UK Tom is a graduate of the Army Staff College. He is an expert in both manual and computer-based simulations and running large scale military training exercises. He served with HQ ARRC for 3 years including 12 months in Bosnia and was awarded an MBE. He also ran the Army's land-based simulation system and served in the UK MOD's procurement organization for 5 years, where he was awarded the Chief of Defence Material Commendation for innovation. He has an MSc in Simulation and is a contributing author to several books on simulation and educational gaming. He is currently responsible for Modelling and Simulation at the Defence Academy of the UK and has been awarded the Chief Scientific Officer's Commendation for his contribution to science and technology. He recently completed a PGCE, co-authored Dark Guest Training Games for Cyber Warfare and is the ITEC Conference Cyber theme lead. Dr Neil Gordon, University of Hull Neil Gordon is a senior lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Hull, where he leads the research group in Computer Gamification and Instruction. He is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a committee member of the British Computer Society Green IT specialist group, reflecting his broader interest in sustainable computing and the teaching of social and professional issues within computer science. His early work in mathematics and Computer Science, and activities in educational technology have enabled his innovative work at the intersection of these three discipline areas. Recent work for the HEA has been on flexible pedagogy - providing students with choice, through the utilisation of emerging technologies and more recently a study of attainment and retention issues in H.E. Computer Science education across the U.K. Dr Paolo Modesti, University of Sunderland Paolo Modesti is a Lecturer in Computing at the University of Sunderland. His main research interests are languages and tools for security, applied formal methods for security, focusing on specification language design, modelling and verification of security protocols and generation of security protocols implementations. He has developed tools for security using object oriented and functional programming languages. Dr Syed Navqi, Birmingham City University Dr Syed Naqvi is a Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security & Forensics at Birmingham City University (BCU). He is taking an active role in the design of new Digital Forensics curriculum at BCU. He is an External Advisor and Course Validation Committee member of Cybersecurity programmes at other UK Universities. Syed has a Digital Forensics practitioner background with first-hand experience of dealing with the challenges of this field. Prior to joining BCU in August 2014, he worked at Forensic Technology Solutions (FTS) of PricewaterhouseCoopers Enterprise Advisory. Syed has held a Visiting Scientist position at University of Washington at Seattle; and was a Research Fellow at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory of the Science and Technology Facilities Council of UK. He has played leading roles in several European and National R&D projects. Syed studied Computer Science and Telecommunications at the Technical University of Grenoble (France). He later obtained a PhD in Distributed Systems Security from Paris Tech. Syed also holds an MBA in Business Technology Management. Mr Adrian Winckles, Anglia Ruskin University Adrian Winckles is Course Leader/Senior Lecturer for BSc(Hons) Information Security and Forensic Computing and Security Researcher at Anglia Ruskin University. He is OWASP Cambridge Chapter Leader, OWASP Europe Board Member and is involved in rebooting the Cambridge Cluster of the UK Cyber Security Forum. His security research programs include (in)security of software defined networks/everything (SDN/Sdx), novel network botnet detection techniques within cloud and virtual environments, distributed honeypots for threat intelligence, advanced educational techniques for teaching cybercrime investigation and virtual digital crimescene/incident simulation. He has successfully completed a contribution to the European FP7 English Centre of Excellence for Cybercrime training, research and education (ECENTRE). He is vice chair of the BCS Cyber Forensics Special Interest Group.

5 Mr Robert Wraith, NCG Direct I have over 10 years experience of working within the banking sector developing, managing and supporting IT systems. I have a BSc (Hons) in Computing and have been teaching within both Further Education and Higher Education for 8 years where I have developed and delivered modules such as Software Development, Database Design and Development and Human Computer Interaction. For the past 19 months I have been involved in the development and creation of NCG Direct which is part of Newcastle College Group where we deliver a vast portfolio of Professional qualifications along with Further and Higher Education programmes through innovative and creative Supported Online Learning. I have a genuine passion for teaching and learning. I have a desire to embed IT, blended and distance learning solutions within all aspects of the curriculum at all levels, therefore offering educational opportunities for all. Dr Asama Adnane, University of Derby Asma Adnane is a Senior Lecturer in Networks and Security at the University of Derby. Her research experience covers trust management, security, and privacy within mobile ad hoc networks. She has published her work in international journals, such as Elsevier computer communication and Ad hoc networks, and international conferences on trust and security. She has been on the PC for several conferences (Security and trusted computing CISIS) and the chair of the IEEE International workshop on Trust in Cloud computing. She is the course leader of MSc Cyber Security, and she has managed the development of a new course BSc cyber security starting in September She is supervising a PhD student working on the trust and security on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks, and she has also supervised postgraduate and undergraduate students for their final year project. Mr Jonathan Barlow, Liverpool John Moores University I am a student in my final year of John Moore s University LJMU in Liverpool studying Cyber Security. My final year project was in the area of cyber security teaching and learning and ways in which a virtual environment can be created in order to aid the practical learning of up and coming cyber experts. My project focused on one specific area of cyber security which was Information Assurance and looked into developing the practical auditing skills. However, this was a prototype and for future work a practical environment for all modules involved within cyber security is being explored.