Security Group
Academic staff
- Alastair Beresford
security & privacy, mobile computing, programming languages - Alice Hutchings
cybercrime, underground markets, crime prevention, ethics - Martin Kleppmann
decentralisation, local-first collaboration software, distributed systems security - Markus Kuhn
hardware and signal-processing aspects of security, positioning systems, display security, semi-structured data - Simon Moore
hardware and VLSI design, asynchronous logic - Larry Paulson
protocol verification, formal methods - Frank Stajano
security and human factors, usability, authentication, Pico, scams, privacy, cybersecurity education (Inter-ACE and C2C) - Robert Watson
operating systems, capability systems, network stacks, CPU security models, I/O security, tracing
Postdoctoral researchers and research assistants
- Ruslan Bukin
embedded systems, operating systems - Richard Clayton
traceability, distributed denial of service, spam, phish - Hridoy Dutta
cybercrime - Lawrence Esswood (Watson)
capability-based protection, control-flow integrity, language security - Daniel Hugenroth (Beresford)
mobile systems, cybersecurity - Jack Hughes (Hutchings)
cybercrime, cybersecurity - Yanna Papadodimitraki
cybercrime - Alex Richardson (Watson)
capability-based security, persistent memory, program analysis - Michael Roe
capability systems, cryptographic protocols, formal methods - Luis A. Saavedra del Toro (Beresford)
privacy, mobile ecosystems, cybercrime
CHERI project RAs: Alfredo Mazzinghi, Edward Napierala, Allison Randal, Alex Richardson, Andrew Turner, Konrad Witaszczyk
Visitors
- John Baldwin
- David Chisnall
domain and problem-specific languages, compiler architecture, hardware and human influence on language design - Yi Ting Chua
cybercrime, social network analysis, online communities - Ben Collier
cybercrime, science and technology studies, theoretical criminology, quantitative and qualitative research methods - Brooks Davis (SRI International)
capability systems, operating systems - Nathaniel Filardo
CHERI - Li-Wen Hsu
operating systems, tracing - Ben
Laurie (Google)
capability systems, cryptographic protocols, various security and privacy topics (blog) - Ed Maste (FreeBSD Foundation)
- Steven Murdoch (University College
London)
covert channels, anonymous communication, traffic analysis - George
Neville-Neil
operating systems, networking, time, code spelunking - Stefany Nizamova (Kuhn)
video eavesdropping - Daniel Thomas (Strathclyde)
- Shih-Chun You (Kuhn)
side-channel analysis, template attacks - Bjoern A. Zeeb
operating systems, network stacks, microarchitectural simulation
Research students
- Viktoriia Astafieva (Hutchings)
cybercrime - Rosie Baish (Watson)
CHERI - Peter Blandford-Baker (Watson)
- Jessica Clarke (Watson)
- Michael Christian Fink Amores (Beresford)
- Dapeng Gao (Watson)
- Hossein Hafezi Moghaddas (Kleppmann)
zero-knowledge proofs - Vincent Liu (Kleppmann)
conflict-free replicated data types - Tina Marjanov (Hutchings)
stolen data in underground marketplaces - Alfredo Mazzinghi (Watson)
capability-based security, kernel memory protection, program analysis - Hannah Pankow (Hutchings)
tech abuse - Alex Pauwels (Beresford)
- Chun-Yu “Eric” Peng (Kuhn)
side-channel analysis, post-quantum cryptography - Foo Ping (Beresford)
- Domagoj Stolfa (Watson)
tracing, distributed systems, capability systems - Anna Talas (Hutchings)
- Luna Rae Wang (Hutchings/Caines)
hate speech detection
The entire group, along with other members of the department and of nearby research labs with related interests, is on the cl-security-research mailing list. For individual contact details, see also the Laboratory’s list of all members. A list of former members is available.
July 2024:
June 2022:

Hridoy Dutta, Shih-Chun You, Eric Peng, Jose Gilberto Atondo Siu,
Henry Caushi, Jenny Blessing, Luis A. Saavedra del Toro
Ilia Shumailov, Yanna Papadodimitraki, Diana Vasile, Frank Courbon,
Dimitrije Erdeljan, Sergei Skorobogatov, Ruslan Bukin, Dapeng Gao,
Kieron Ivy Turk
Robert Watson, Alice Hutchings, Alastair Beresford, Frank Stajano,
Ross Anderson, Markus Kuhn, Richard Clayton
Earlier group photos: 2019, 2018, 2014, 2012, 2008, 2000, 1997.
