Computer Laboratory: Jat Singh

Jat Singh
University of Cambridge
Computer Laboratory
15 JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge, CB3 0FD
United Kingdom

Phone: +44 1223 7-63690
Email: jatinder.singh(a)cl.cam.ac.uk

My research concerns security, privacy and confidentiality in distributed systems.

I am currently a post-doctoral researcher on a project called PAL: Personal and Social Communication Services for Health and Lifestyle Monitoring. This project concerns infrastructure to support user-centric health services. My focus is on controlling information flows, by effecting higher-level user policies while managing lower-level network concerns.

I completed my Ph.D. with a dissertation entitled "Controlling the dissemination and disclosure of healthcare events". The dissertation considers information governance concerns in an information-centric routing paradigm (publish/subscribe). The focus was on supporting national-level health services. See the abstract for more information. I was supervised by Prof. Jean Bacon and Dr. Ken Moody. I am a member (PDR) of St John's College.

I am originally from Australia, completing my undergraduate degree in Computer Science at UWA. Much of my commercial (IT) experience revolves around health and judicial systems---application domains where information is sensitive. I also have some background in law. My CV is available on request.

My hobbies are travel, travel and travel. I try to speak Español, a veces.

Research interests

data security and privacy
data and policy federation/distribution
access control
data stream management
information flow control
supporting notions of trust, responsibility and accountability
information-centric routing (publish/subscribe)
large-scale systems
databases
event-based systems
complex event proessing: interactions between events and context

I am also very interested technology-related policy: considering the social, economic and legal impacts of new technologies.

Selected Publications

Coming soon. In the mean time, see here for a complete list.

Student projects & supervisions

Part II project suggestion

Will update soon..

Economics and Law

If you're doing this course, apart from the suggested reading materials, I recommend reading Code by Larry Lessig - his discussion on regulating behaviour sets a good frame of mind. Also, see anything (recent) by Schneier.

Databases