Cyber Security and Privacy
Our research is concerned with all aspects of security and privacy for business, government and society. Our expertise lies within a broad range of areas of computer security including:
- Applied cryptography
- Automotive security
- Cloud security
- Electronic voting
- Formal verification
- Hardware security
- IoT security
- Secure infrastructure
- Security of machine learning
- Wireless security
Our security and privacy academic staff are also members of the Centre for Cyber Security and Privacy which is recognised by the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), in partnership with the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) as an Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR).
For more information about the centre, please see the Centre for Cyber Security and Privacy website.
Theme Lead
Theme Members
Assistant Professor
School of Computer Science
Dr Luca Arnaboldi is an Assistant Professor of Cyber Security in School of Computer Science. His research currently focuses on security of autonomous systems, explainable AI and formal verification of machine learning algorithms. He is a passionate award-winning educator with focus on hybrid and blended teaching methods in Cyber Security Higher Education.
His main research interests lie at the ...
- Email
- l.arnaboldi@bham.ac.uk
Lecturer in Computer Science
School of Computer Science
Dr Pascal Berrang is a lecturer for the School of Computer Science, at the University of Birmingham. His research interests are in the field of IT Security & Privacy with a focus on Health Data, Blockchain Technology, and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning.
Please follow the link below to find out more about Pascal's work:
Dr Pascal Berrang - personal webpage
- Email
- p.p.berrang@bham.ac.uk
Professor of Cyber Security
Head of External Partnerships of Computer Science
School of Computer Science
Tom Chothia is a Professor in Cyber Security for the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham. His research involves the development of new mathematical analysis, and the application of these techniques to cyber security problems.
For more information, please see Tom's homepage.
- Email
- t.p.chothia@cs.bham.ac.uk
Lecturer in Computer Science
School of Computer Science
Dr Mihai Ordean is a lecturer for the School of Computer Science, at the University of Birmingham. He is also a member of the Birmingham Centre for Cyber Security and Privacy.
His work mainly focuses on systems security, mobile communication security, and industrial control systems (ICS) security. He is also interested in end-to-end encryption for cloud applications and has been involved in ...
- Email
- m.ordean@bham.ac.uk
Professor in Computer Security
Head of Research of Computer Science
School of Computer Science
David Oswald is a Full Professor in the Centre for Cyber Security and Privacy at the University of Birmingham, UK. His main field of research is the security of embedded systems and trusted execution. On the one hand, the focus is on attack methods that exploit weaknesses in the physical implementation of mathematically secure cryptographic algorithms. Those techniques include both (passive) ...
- Email
- d.f.oswald@bham.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Computer Security
School of Computer Science
Senior Lecturer in Computer Science
School of Computer Science
Dr Eike Ritter is a Senior Lecturer for the School of Computer Science, at the University of Birmingham. He is also a member of the Security and Privacy group and Theory group.
For more information, please see Eike's homepage.
- Email
- e.ritter@cs.bham.ac.uk
Head of School of Computer Science
Chair in Decentralised Systems
School of Computer Science
Aad van Moorsel is Professor and Head of the School of Computer Science at University of Birmingham. He is the Principal Investigator of UKFin, the UKRI EPSRC Network in Financial Services, which kicks off September 2022 to provide an interface between academia and industry.
In his current research he is spearheading efforts in financial inclusion in collaboration with Atom Bank and the Bill ...
- Email
- a.vanmoorsel@bham.ac.uk
Interdisciplinary Professorial Fellow in Law, Ethics and Informatics
Birmingham Law School
Karen Yeung joined Birmingham Law School and the University of Birmingham’s School of Computer Science as Interdisciplinary Professorial Fellow in Law, Ethics and Informatics in January 2018. Her research has been at the forefront of understanding the challenges associated with the regulation and governance of emerging technologies. Over the course of more than 25 ...
- Telephone
- +44 (0) 121 414 6298
- Email
- k.yeung@bham.ac.uk