Paul Grace

Dr Paul Grace

Senior Lecturer

Department of Software Engineering and Cybersecurity, Aston University, UK

Email: p.grace@aston.ac.uk

Profile

I am a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at Aston University. I joined Aston in April 2019 after spending 6 years working at the IT Innovation Centre where I was an engineer and project manager. I received my PhD from Lancaster University in 2004; and subsequently worked as a researcher at Lancaster and K.U. Leuven.

My research interests are in the areas of distributed systems, security and privacy, systems engineering, dynamic adaptation and middleware. I have also developed a number of software and tools to underpin research: ReMMoC, OpenCOM, GridKit, Starlink, Model-Interop, and Privacy-Modeller.

I currently teach courses: on secure distributed systems, network security and security fundamentals.

Recent Publications

A Comparative Analysis of Threat Modelling Methods: STRIDE, DREAD, VAST, PASTA, OCTAVE, and LINDDUN, Naik, N., Jenkins, P., Grace, P., Naik, D., Prajapat, S. & Song, J., Contributions Presented at The International Conference on Computing, Communication, Cybersecurity and AI, July 3–4, 2024.
An Introduction to Gossip Protocol Based Learning in Peer-to-Peer Federated Learning, Naik, D., Grace, P., Naik, N., Jenkins, P., Mishra, D. & Prajapat, S., In IEEE International Conference on ICT in Business Industry & Government (ICTBIG). March 2024.
Challenges and Opportunities for Conducting Dynamic Risk Assessments in Medical IoT, Czekster, R., Grace, P., Marcon, C., Hessel, F. & Cazella, S. C., In: Applied Sciences. 13, 13, 26 p., 7406. June 2023.
An Evaluation of Potential Attack Surfaces Based on Attack Tree Modelling and Risk Matrix Applied to Self-Sovereign Identity, Naik, N., Grace, P., Jenkins, P., Naik, K. & Song, J. In: Computers & Security. 120, 102808. September 2022.
Pseudonymization risk analysis in distributed systems, Neumann, G., Grace, P., Burns, D. & Surridge, In: Journal of Internet Services and Applications. 10, 1, 1. January 2019.
Experimentation as a Service over Semantically Interoperable Internet of Things Testbeds, J Lanza, L Sánchez , J Santana, R Agarwal, N Kefalakis, P Grace, T Elsaleh, M Zhao, E Tragos, H Nguyen, F Cirillo, R Steinke, J Soldatos. In IEEE Access, Dec 2018. Pre-print.
Identifying privacy risks in distributed data services: A model-driven approach, P Grace, D Burns, G Neumann, B Pickering, P Melas, M Surridge, In ICDCS 2018. E-Prints.
Towards a Model of User-centered Privacy Preservation, P Grace, M Surridge, In ARES 2018. E-Prints.
A reference architecture for federating IoT infrastructures supporting semantic interoperability, F Carrez, T Elsaleh, D Gómez, L Sánchez, J Lanza, P Grace. In EuCNC 2017. E-Prints.
Model-driven interoperability: engineering heterogeneous IoT systems, P Grace, B Pickering, M Surridge, In Annals de Telecommunications 2016. E-Prints.