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Dr Hervé Borrion

Lecturer, UCL Department of Security and Crime Science

Hervé Borrion pursued his postgraduate education at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Aéronautique et de l’Espace (Masters) and at University College London (PhD) where he specialised in radar signal processing for target recognition. He developed a strong interest in the application of sensor-based technologies in various research centres including the Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique (Paris), Los Alamos National Laboratory (US), UCT-CSIR (Cape Town) and Tsinghua University (Beijing) .

Between 2006 ad 2008, he has been working as science manager for security and crime science at UCL, and brought together a community of academics from 30 UCL departments around a broad security research agenda to satisfy the needs of companies and government agencies. He was the founding director of the MSc in Countering Terrorism and Organised Crime, and the Chairman of the Programme Committee of the International Crime Science Conference during the first three years.

Since 2009, he has been serving as the Deputy Director of the EPSRC-funded £17m Security Science Doctoral Training Centre. He sits on the advisory board of the London Technology Network's Security interest group and the EU Security-project HARMISE.

Research Interests

His main interest lies in combining social science and technologies to assess and manage security risks. One of his roles at UCL is the understanding of threats and end-user requirements in major security projects, and to facilitate the interface of end-users with academics.

• Security risk management

• Security systems

Research Grants

• EU-FP7 RIBS - Resilient Infrastructure and Building Security (PI)

• EU-FP7 BASYLIS - moBile, Autonomous and affordable SYstem to increase security in Large unpredIctable environments

Other grants

• EU Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation Window: mobility scholarship to Tinghua University, Beijing (EUR 5k)
• DHS grant: organisation of a Security and Crime Science workshop (£5k)
• UCL/EPSRC Bridging the gap : organisation of the first environmental crime conference (£5k)
• UCL/EPSRC Knowledge Transfer Account (£250k)

Academic Responsibilities

• MRes Security Science, Course Director

• Security Science doctoral training centre, Deputy Director

_{Introducing Security and Crime Science to undergraduate students in electronic engineering (Cumberland Lodge, 2011)}

Invited presentations

• Machine Vision for Security

European Machine Vision Association - 12.04.2008, Berlin

• Moving towards Integrated Security

ITS - Security interest group 27.07.2007, London

• Developing airport security technologies

Transec World-Expo XXI, 27.06.2007, Amsterdam

• UCL Centre for Security and Crime Science

Department for Trade and Industry, London

News Articles:

• Mad, bad and dangerous to know: Universities play a vital role in the study of crime and terrorism, The Independent, May 8 2008

Academic publications

• An Empirical Study of the Impact of Reliability Values on Threat Assessment (accepted), H. Borrion, . Gaballa, C.Wapshott, S. Johnson, N. Harvey; NATO Institute on Collaborative Human-Centric Systems for Prediction and Detection of Maritime Piracy - 28 September 2011, Salamanca, Spain

• Radar-based Technologies for Terrorist Detection

H. Borrion, N. Bouhana, H.Guo, K.Chetty, G.Smith, K.Woodbridge and C. J. Baker
NATO Science and Technology for Defence against Terrorism. Manheim, Germany
April 24 2008

• Study of processing techniques for Radar non-cooperative target recognition

Borrion, H; Thesis (Ph.D.) University College London, 2006

• One-Dimensional Model-based Approach for ISAR Imaging (2)

Borrion, H.; Griffiths, H.; Tait, P.; Money, D.; Baker, C.;
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2006. IGARSS 2006. IEEE International Conference on
July 31 2006-Aug. 4 2006 Page(s):3196 - 3199
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/IGARSS.2006.821

• One-dimensional model-based approach for ISAR imaging

Borrion, H.; Griffiths, H.D.; Tait, P.; Money, D.; Baker, C.J.;
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2005. IGARSS '05. Proceedings. 2005 IEEE International
Volume 1, 25-29 July 2005 Page(s):4 pp.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/IGARSS.2005.1526170

• Scattering centre extraction for extended targets

Borrion, H.; Griffiths, H.D.; Tait, P.; Money, D.; Baker, C.J.;
Radar Conference, 2005 IEEE International
9-12 May 2005 Page(s):173 - 178

• A high dynamic range beam position measurement system for ELSA-2

Guimbal, P.; Balleyguier, P.; Deslandes, D.; Borrion, H.;
Particle Accelerator Conference, 2003. PAC 2003. Proceedings of the
Volume 4, 12-16 May 2003 Page(s):2458 - 2460 vol.4
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/PAC.2003.1289153

Contact details

Position: Deputy Director of SECReT

Department: UCL Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science

Address: 35 Tavistock Square

Postcode: WC1H 9EZ

City: London

Country: UK

Room number: N/A

Link to map or directions: http://www.jdi.ucl.ac.uk/contact_us

Phone: +44 (0) 020 3108 3194

UCL extension: 53194

Mobile phone: N/A

Email address: h.borrion@ucl.ac.uk