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Neetesh Saxena is an Associate Professor in Cyber Security with the Department of Computer Science and Informatics at Cardiff University, UK. Before joining the CU, he was an Assistant Professor with Bournemouth University, UK. Prior to this, he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. He was also with the Department of Computer Science, State University of New York (SUNY) Korea, South Korea and Stony Brook University, USA. He earned his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, India. He was a DAAD Research Scholar at the Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology (B-IT), Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität, Bonn, Germany. He was also a TCS Research Scholar. He has published his works in IEEE/ACM Transactions and other Journals, as well as in security and communication conferences. He is a recipient of the Best Paper Award at IEEE ICC 2017 and ICOIN 2021. He has organised several conferences and workshops including an IEEE SMC Society sponsored summer school “Human Factors in System Safety and Security”. He has also served as a reviewer for IEEE/ACM journals, such as TIFS, TVT, COMST, TSG, TII, TSC, TC, TMC, TEM and SJ. He has served as a session chair and a track chair for international conferences. He has also been a TPC member for international conferences such as ACM CCS, IEEE ICC, IEEE MILCOM, IEEE TrustCom, IEEE SmartGridCom, IEEE WiMob, IEEE PIMRC and IEEE ICCC, and an independent reviewer for ESORICS, ECIS, IEEE VTC, HICSS, IEEE ICUFN. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Member of the ACM, and Eta Kappa Nu.
School of Computer Science & Informatics, Cardiff University, UK
PhD Research Students
Muh. Nouman Nafees
PhDICS Smart Grid Situational Awareness 2020
Yazeed Alrowaili
PhDSafety-Critical Systems’ Situational Awareness2020
Mohammed Asiri
PhDIoCs in ICS2021
Ayodeji Rotibi
PhDRisks & Vulnerabilities in ICS2021 (st 2020)
Andrew Bolton (with Pete Burnap)
PhDxx2021
Sarah Hamad N Bin Hulayyil (with Shancang Li)
PhDxx2022
Muhammad Yusuf (with Eirini Anthi)
PhDxx2022Research Assistant/Associate/Fellow
Kyle Swire-Thompson
Research Assistant2021
Abubakar Mohammed
Thales Placement
2021
Debabrat Goswami
RA 2023
Hossein Ramezanian
RA 2023
MSc Dissertation Students
Divine Selorm Afenu
MSc (CS)ICS Security Validation based on MITRE ATT&CK Techniques2023Debabrat Goswami
MSc (CS)Securing Critical Infrastructure Assets2023Moath Majdi M Khawaji
MSc (CS)Risks Assessment and Advance Alert Notifications for Smart Grid2023
Oladapo Adekoya
MSc (CS)Analysing Effectiveness of Cyber Resiliency Measures2023Saleh Mohamed
MSc (CS)Rules Formation for Cyber Resiliency Metrics2023Abdullah Alshatti
MSc (CS)Anomaly Detection in Gas Pipeline SCADA Systems2022Aljoharh Almutairi
MSc (CS)Cyber Risks Assessment for Electric Vehicle Infrastructure2022Asrar Esmaeel T Alahmadi
MSc (CS)Cyber Risks Assessment for Autonomous Vehicles2022Hossein Ramezanian
MSc (CS)Intrusion Detection in Water Storage Tank System2022Mario Mura
MSc (CS)Hardware-in-the-Loop Cyber-Attack Detection in ICS2022Ohud Alsadi
MSc (CS)Security Analysis of the Smart Grid Protocols2022
Zipeng Guo
MSc (CS)
Building a Dependency Modelling Tool for Industrial Control System2022
Ahmad Alqarni
MSc (CS)Risks Assessment and Advance Alert Notifications for Smart Grid2021
Hazar Akbar
MSc (CS)Mitigating Data Breaches by Improving Situational Awareness2021
Ioana-Eliza Georgescu
MSc (CS)Analysing Effectiveness for Cyber Resiliency Measures2021
Mashael Zaid Alshaikhi
MSc (CS)Decision Support System for Situational Awareness in Cyber Operations Centres2021
Mona Alnahdi
MSc (CS)Situational Awareness Framework for Cyber Security Event Prediction and Quantification2021
Samar Ahmed Alghamdi
MSc (CS)Security Analysis of the EV Infrastructure Protocols2021
Xin Qi
MSc (CS)Analysing Packet Injection Attacks2021
Francesco Iulio
MSc (CS)Analysing Capture the Flag Competitions2021
Rashid Khan
MSc (CS)Anti-Theft Driver Profiling for Situational Awareness2020 [Published in IEEE Euro S&P workshop]
Muzun Althunayyan
MSc (CS)Security Assessment in Web Applications2020 [Published in MDPI journal]
Fatimah Aloraini
MSc (CS)An Analysis of Socially Engineered Phishing E-mails2020
George Burke
MSc (CS)Cyber Risks Prediction and Analysis in Medical Emergency Equipment2020[Published in Sensors (MDPI) Journal]
Oliver Simon
MSc (CS)An Analysis of Phishing Websites2020BSc Project Students
Christian Hand
BSc Secure Multi-party Computation2024
Hamad Abdullah
BSc ICS Honeypot2024
Hamood Al-Wahaibi
BScAnalysing injection attacks2024Harry Burley-Jukes
BScHardware-in-the-Loop Cyber-Attack Detection2024Henry Byrne
BScCyber-Attacks on Modbus TCP Protocol 2024Aryan Nandakumar
BSc Mental Health2023Kai Barker
BSc Applying ML2023Wing Lam
BScFeedback Helper2023
Finn Milliner
BSc (CSSF)SMS Security2022Kalvin Willis
BSc (CSSF)Attacks on Modbus Protocol2022Joe Watson
BSc (CSSF)Security Flaws in Source Codes2022
Kyle Swire-Thompson
BSc (CSSF)Cyber-Events Detection in Smart Grid for Situational Awareness2021
Chenyang Liu
BSc (CSSF)Securing Critical Infrastructure Assets2021[Published in Energies (MDPI) Journal]Jack Glaister
BSc (CSSF)ICS Honeypot System for Practical Collection of Threat Intelligence2021
Mark Burnitt
BSc (CSSF)Rule-based Incident-Response for Vehicle’s Safety and Situational Awareness2021
Jake McNeill
BSc (CSSF)Placement Student2021
Connor Potter
BSc (CSSF)Analysing Security in Web Applications 2020
Jorge Correa Merlino
BSc (CSSF)Cyber Incident-Response Smart Grid Tool2020[Published in Sustainability (MDPI) Journal]
Fraser Orr
BSc (CSSF)Secure Smart Grid Infrastructure 2020[Published in Electronics (MDPI) Journal]
Isaiah Robinson
BSc (CSSF)Security Analysis of SMS-based Applications2020
Kevin Tam
BSc (CSSF)Smart Home Security Dashboard2020Department of Computing & Informatics, Bournemouth University, UK
BSc (FCS and CSM):
- Callum Dodd, 2018-19, Analysing the security within smart home devices.
- Ieuan Thomas, 2018-19, Blockchain – the war against counterfeit drugs. [Published as a part in IEEE Computer]
- Kyle Pearson, 2018-19, Security analysis of UK SIM operators' networks using open source software.
- Billy Giovanni, 2018-19, Security of IoT devices within the household.
- Haaris Javaid, 2018-19, Investigating & evaluating automotive security systems.
- Joshua Cunningham, 2018-19, Blockchain prototype for private healthcare patients to claim money back.
- Liam Broster, 2018-19, Dashboard to help older generations understand security in smart homes.
- William Edwards, 2018-19, Decoding vibrations from close quarters keyboards using accelerometers found in mobile phones.
- Sam Duchesne, 2018-19, Denial of Service attack prevention development within IoT home networks.
- Sam Denton, 2018-19, Machine learning forensics: automated security.
- Josh Farmer, 2017-18, Detecting fraudulent activity committed by organisational insiders within the banking and financial sector.
- Benjamin McGarry, 2017-18, An analysis of threats and privacy issues to home IoT devices.
- Matthew Loughton, 2017-18, Critical analysis of security risks within railway infrastructure.
- Nathan Harrison, 2017-18, Securing IoT architecture within healthcare.
- Steven Hopkins, 2017-18, Securing the critical Infrastructure of the smart grid with four-factor authentication.
- Oliver Holloway, 2017-18, A mobile application to tackle digital addiction.
- Samuel Smith, 2016-17, Designing a secure cloud storage solution with zero knowledge authentication. (current position: IBM)
- Jeremy A. Stone, 2016-17, Analysis of Tor system security: resistance to traffic analysis attacks. [Published as a part in IEEE SMC]
- James Whelan, 2016-17, An investigation into the Tor network and the dark web.
MSc (IT, CSHF and IoT):
- Belal Asad, 2018-19, Real Time IoT Network Attack Analysis For Smart Door Systems. [Published in SSCC India]
- Patrick Abayomi Ojo, 2018-19, Impact of Maximizing the Use Of Browser Cookies In the Era of GDPR and Cybersecurity.
- Monir Hassan, 2018-19, Usability study of websites of Kurdistan Regional Government.
- Kayode Adewole, 2017-18, Application of Cryptocurrencies in E-commerce Online Payment. [Published as a book chapter]
RA:
- Nikos Ntemkas, 2017.
PhD:
- Ge Zheng, 2018.
- Nikos Ntemkas, 2017.