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Jat Singh Senior Research Associate Computer Laboratory St John's College (PDR) Phone: +44 1223 7-63690 Email: jatinder.singh(a)cl.cam.ac.uk

 

My research concerns policy in distributed systems.
My focus is on issues of security and privacy, and enabling context-aware, dynamically reconfigurable infrastructure.

I am currently on a project in collaboration with Imperial College entitled Cloud SafetyNet investigating the enforcement of information flow controls within and between cloud providers.

I am very interested technology-related policy: considering the social, economic and legal impacts of new technologies. Currently, I am working with the E-infrastructure Leadership Council with the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills on the UK's e-Infrastructure strategy.

My previous project aimed involved developing a general pervasive computing infrastructure that enables granular control over data flows/interactions (PAL). In another project, I explored data governance concerns in information-centric routing paradigms (publish/subscribe), for supporting national-level health services (NHS).

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.

I am originally from Australia. My hobbies are travel, travel and travel. I try to speak Español, a veces.

Research interests

• Security: access controls, information flow control, certificates/PKI
• Policy: management, distribution, specification, conflict, compliance/audit
• Event-based systems: context awareness, event composition
• Adaptive / Reconfigurable systems: driven by context/policy
• Communication paradigms: Publish/Subscribe, messaging systems, data stream management
• Pervasive / ubiquitious computing
• Databases
• Issues of privacy, trust, responsibility and accountability

Selected Publications

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

Student projects & supervisions

• Part II project suggestions
• 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