Supervisors

We have a diverse UCL community of world leading cybersecurity researchers.

The Department of Computer Science 

• Dr Earl Barr: security testing, secure software engineering methodologies, malware and binary analysis
• Prof Madeline Carr: global politic of cybersecurity, international relations, power and innovation policy, cyberwar and cyber norms, national cyber security strategies, cyber risk assessment in boards, cyber security policy, Internet of Things.
• Prof Enrico Costanza: data and interaction with AI and autonomous systems
• Prof Emiliano De Cristofaro: trustworthy machine learning and socio-technical issues on the Web
• Prof Steven Hailes: robotics, infrastructure, Internet of Things, and manufacturing security
• Prof Mark Handley: operating systems, networking and distributed systems security
• Prof Philipp Jovanovic: applied cryptography, cryptocurrencies, distributed systems, privacy
• Dr Dimitrios Kanoulas: robot perception, robot learning, legged robots, mobile manipulators.
• Prof Tiago Mata: history and sociology of economic knowledge
• Dr Steven Murdoch: privacy, authentication and banking security
• Dr Mirco Musolesi: machine learning/artificial intelligence for cybersecurity
• Prof David Pym: logic, systems modelling, security policy & security economics
• Dr Leonie Tanczer: Cybersecurity, emerging technologies, Internet of Things, gender and tech, tech abuse, mental health, hacking, hacktivism, censorship, surveillance. 
• Dr Marie Vasek: cryptocurrencies, cybercrime, security economics
• Dr Mark Warner: online safety, online hate speech, content moderation, misinformation, data deletion, algorithmic harms, usable privacy
• Dr Shi Zhou: online social media, epidemic spreading, detection of bots & frauds, complex networks, internet routing.
• Dr Sanaz Zolghadriha

The Department of Security and Crime Science

• Dr Ingolf Becker: Usable cybersecurity, cybercrime, research methods in the cyber space, organisational security, dark marketplaces, banking security, developer-centred security, measurements, behaviour change
• Dr Kevin Chetty: Indoor Sensing and Contextual Awareness using commodity WiFi and IoT Devices
• Prof Paul Gill: Risk assessment and management of cybercriminality, risk assessment and management of violent extremism, online radicalisation
• Prof Shane Johnson: cyber crime, Internet of Things, policy evaluation, emerging technologies, useable security
• Dr Enrico Mariconti: systems for cybersecurity, in particular the use of AI against malware and cybercrime
• Dr Sandy Schumann
• Dr Nilufer Tuptuk: cyber-physical systems security, IoT security, transportation systems security, AI-based applied machine learning security, socio-technical security, applications of natural language processing to cybercrime

UCL Department for Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP)

• Sir Prof Geoff Mulgan CBE
• Dr Ine Steenmans: future policy competencies and capabilities

The Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering

• Dr Anna Maria Mandalari: Internet of Things (IoT), privacy, security, networking and Internet measurement techniques
• Prof Miguel Rio: programmable networks and congestion control

UCL Institute of the Americas

• Dr Néstor Castañeda: politics of inequality and redistribution in developing economies

The Department of Philosophy

• Prof Tim Button

The Department of Political Science

• Dr Melanie Garson: cyber policy, tech geopolitics, and defence innovation challenges