Team

The Centre for Sustainable Cyber Security (CS2) with an annual research expenditure exceeding £1M, comprises a team of more than 40 faculty members, postdocs and PhD researchers. CS2 collaborates with industry, public sector, and academic partners to conduct cutting-edge research

Research of our members covers a range of topics with the core challenges being:

• Challenge 1: Cyber-Physical System Security
• Challenge 2: Cyber Risk Mitigation
• Challenge 3: Certified Security and Privacy

Faculty

• George Loukas, Professor of Cyber Security (google scholar)
  Expertise: Human-centric cyber security.

• Manos Panaousis, Professor of Cyber Security (google scholar)
  Expertise: Cyber and privacy risk management.

• Jixin Ma, Professor of Computer Science (google scholar)
  Expertise: Science Applied cryptography and AI.

• George Samakovitis, Professor (Enterprise) of FinTech (google scholar)
  Expertise: Fintech, privacy and AML.

• Josh Davis, Professor of Applied Psychology (google scholar)
  Expertise: Human-centric identity verification and threat detection

• Özgür H. Çınar, Professor of Law (google scholar)
  Expertise: Law and privacy

• Diane Gan, Principal Lecturer in Computer Security and Forensics (google scholar)
  Expertise: Digital forensics

• Muhammad Taimoor Khan, Associate Professor of Cyber Security (google scholar)
  Expertise: Certified sustainable cyber security

• Georgia Sakellari, Associate Professor of Networked Systems (google scholar)
  Expertise: Resilient Internet of Things

• Muhammad Waqas, Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security (google scholar)
  Expertise: Wireless communications security

• Georgios Mantas, Senior Lecturer in Digital Security & Management (google scholar)
  Expertise: Internet of Things security

• Anatolij Bezemskij, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science (google scholar)
  Expertise: Cyber-physical threat detection

• Sadiq Sani, Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security (google scholar)
  Expertise: Operational Technology cyber security

• David Gresty, Senior Lecturer in Disruptive Technologies (google scholar)
  Expertise: Digital forensics

• Mariusz Pelc, Senior Lecturer in Computer Systems and Networking (google scholar)
  Expertise: AI-powered expert cyber systems

• Ivana Tomic, Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security (google scholar)
  Expertise: Internet of Things security

• Ismael Essop, Assoc. Prof. (Teaching) of Digital Solutions & Security Eng. (google scholar)
  Expertise: Internet of Things security

• Tuan Vuong, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science (google scholar)
  Expertise: Cyber-physical security

• Nuno Otero, Senior Lecturer in Data Science (google scholar)
  Expertise: Privacy UX in AI

• Srinidhi Vasudevan, Senior Lecturer in Business Management (google scholar)
  Expertise: Human-centric cybersecurity and blockchain

• Ik Soo Lim, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science (google scholar)
  Expertise: Trustworthy agent-based systems

• Karim Nasr, Senior Lecturer in Electrical Engineering (scopus)
  Expertise: Physical layer and telecommunications security

• Yasmine Arafa, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science (google scholar)
  Expertise: AI-driven solutions and blockchain

• Kamran Pedram, Senior Lecturer in Electrical & Electronic Engineering (google scholar)
  Expertise: Physical layer and telecommunications security

• Sakshyam Panda, Lecturer in Cyber Security (google scholar)
  Expertise: Security and privacy for AI

• Najma Taimoor, Lecturer in Computer Science (google scholar)
  Expertise: Reliable and resilient healthcare