About me

Current Research

I am a Research Associate at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and a member of the Cybercrime Centre (CCC) and the Security group. I currently work on the CybercrimeNLP project, a natural language processing toolkit for the interdisciplinary analysis of underground online forums, and I take part in the data collection activities of CCC. Besides analysing forums using natural language processing, I am interested in applying network science techniques, and network anomaly detection.

Past Experience & Research

I obtained my PhD at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. My PhD work focused on managing the consistency of heterogeneous representations of software systems, such as source code, design diagrams, test cases, and involved traceability and change impact analysis, and representing these diverse artefacts as property graphs. Prior to and following my PhD I worked in various software engineering positions.
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Teaching

Tutorials and Supervisions
  • Part II Project Supervisions in network anomaly detection, and the application of machine learning techniques to explore discussions on underground forums, University of Cambridge
  • Object-oriented programming with Java, University of St Andrews, 2013-2014, 2014-2015
  • Security, University of Cambridge, 2018-2019
  • Lab Demonstration
  • Object-oriented programming with Java, University of St Andrews, 2016-2017
  • Foundations of Computation, University of St Andrews, 2016-2017
  • Coursework Marking
  • Object-oriented programming with Java, University of St Andrews, 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2016-2017
  • Computer Science in Everyday Life, University of St Andrews, 2016-2017
  • Course Instructor
  • Code First Girls: Beginners Web Development Course, 2018


  • Publications, Talks and Conferences

  • M Bada, I Pete. "An exploration of the cybercrime ecosystem around Shodan", 7th IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS 2020)
  • AV Vu, J Hughes, I Pete, B Collier, YT Chua, I Shumailov, A Hutchings. "Turning Up the Dial: the Evolution of a Cybercrime Market Through Set-up, Stable, and COVID-19 Eras", ACM IMC, 2020
  • I Pete, J Hughes, YT Chua, M Bada. "A Social Network Analysis and Comparison of Six Dark Web Forums", 2020 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW)
  • BM Bada, YT Chua, B Collier, I Pete. "Exploring Masculinities and Perceptions of Gender in Online Cybercrime Subcultures."
  • Ildiko Pete, Yi Ting Chua, "An Assessment of the Usability of Cybercrime Datasets", Short Preliminary Work Paper, presented at the 12th USENIX Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET 19')
  • “Controller Area Network (CAN) Deep Packet Inspection”, GPU Technology Conference (GTC), San Jose, USA, March 2018
  • Thesis: Towards a Holistic Framework for Software Artefact Consistency Management, University of St Andrews, 2017
  • Pete, I., Balasubramaniam, D. “Handling the Differential Evolution of Software Artefacts: A Framework for Consistency Management,” 22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER) 2015
  • Doctoral Symposium: “Handling the Differential Evolution of Software Artefacts: A Framework for Consistency Management,” SANER, Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal, March 2015
  • Research Spotlight Competition: “A Framework for Maintaining Artefact Consistency during Incremental Software Development”. Talk at London Hopper Colloquium, British Computer Society, London, UK, May 2014
  • ACM womENcourage Europe Poster Session: “A Framework for Maintaining Artefact Consistency during Incremental Software Development”. ACM womeENcourage Europe Conference, Manchester, UK, March 2014
  • Systems Seminar: “A Framework for Maintaining Artefact Consistency during Software Development”. School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK, February 2013
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