News

• Our paper "Towards Flexible Anonymous Networks" that provides a framework to mitigate protocol tolerence related attacks on Tor accepted at WPES (co-located with CCS 2024).

• Our paper about Interoperable Key Transparency for E2EE messaging systems is appearing at FOCI24 (co-located with PETS24).

• Our paper about website fingerprinting over satellite links accepted at SpaceSec24@NDSS.

• I'm co-chairing FOCI for the next two years. CFP for FOCI24 can be found here.

• Invited talk @ Digital Controversies Speaker Series.

• Our paper on securing anonymous communications systems with toplogical enginnering accepted at ACSAC'22.

• Awarded a National Research Centre Grant (£8.6M) to work on Protecting Citizens Online! As Co-I of this new Centre, I will be leading projects to research and develop Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETS) that scale while mitigating their misuse by adversaries.

• Secured New Investigator Award to investigate "Feedback and Optimisation for Well-behaved Anonymous Communication Networks". 

Hiring

• I am currently hiring recruiting PhD students in Privacy and Security. Some exempler project themes: 

  • Security and Privacy of Satellite Networks

  • Integration & Interopreability of PETs in large scale systems (e.g. E2EE messaging platforms) 

  • Secure and Private Machine Learning/AI for Decision and Communiucation Systems

  • Automated Control and Adaption for Well-behaved Anonymous and Private Communication Networks

  • Censorship Resistance and Information Controls 

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I am a faculty member of the Security, Privacy, and Trust group (SecPrivTru) and the Laboratory for the Foundations of Computer Science (LFCS) and an affiliate member of the Institute for Computing Systems Architecture (ICSA).  [Bio]