Cyber Security and Privacy
Our research is concerned with all aspects of security and privacy for business, government and society. Our expertise lies within a broad range of areas of computer security including:
- Applied cryptography
- Automotive security
- Cloud security
- Electronic voting
- Formal verification
- Hardware security
- IoT security
- Secure infrastructure
- Security of machine learning
- Wireless security
Our security and privacy academic staff are also members of the Centre for Cyber Security and Privacy which is recognised by the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), in partnership with the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) as an Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR).
For more information about the centre, please see the Centre for Cyber Security and Privacy website.
Theme Lead

Professor in Computer Security
School of Computer Science
Mark Ryan is a Professor in Computer Security for the School of Computer Science and the lead for the at the University 麻豆精选. For more information, please see .
Offensive cyber research
- Email
- m.d.ryan@cs.bham.ac.uk
Theme Members

Assistant Professor
School of Computer Science
Dr Luca Arnaboldi is an Assistant Professor of Cyber Security in School of Computer Science. His research currently focuses on security of autonomous systems, explainable AI and formal verification of machine learning algorithms. He is a passionate award-winning educator with focus on hybrid and blended teaching methods in Cyber Security Higher Education.
His main research interests lie at the ...
- Email
- l.arnaboldi@bham.ac.uk

Associate Professor in Computer Science
School of Computer Science
Dr Pascal Berrang is a Associate Professor for the School of Computer Science, at the University 麻豆精选. His research interests are in the field of IT Security & Privacy with a focus on Blockchain Technology, and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning.
Please follow the link below to find out more about Pascal's work:
- Email
- p.p.berrang@bham.ac.uk

Assistant Professor in Cyber Security
School of Computer Science
Dr Rishiraj Bhattacharyya is an assistant professor in the School of Computer Science. Previously, he held academic positions at the at NISER, India, and the at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. Prior to that he was a post-doctoral researcher at the team of ENS-Lyon. He received his PhD from Indian ...
- Email
- r.bhattacharyya@bham.ac.uk
Professor of Cyber Security
Head of External Partnerships of Computer Science
School of Computer Science
Tom Chothia is a Professor in Cyber Security for the School of Computer Science at the University 麻豆精选. His research involves the development of new mathematical analysis, and the application of these techniques to cyber security problems.
For more information, please see .
- Email
- t.p.chothia@cs.bham.ac.uk

Lecturer in Computer Science
School of Computer Science
Dr Mihai Ordean is a lecturer for the School of Computer Science, at the University 麻豆精选. He is also a member of the Birmingham Centre for Cyber Security and Privacy.
His work is aimed at understanding how systems work from a security perspective, identifying flaws, and then proposing improvements. Currently he is working on cellular device security concerning protocol privacy and ...
- Email
- m.ordean@bham.ac.uk

Professor in Computer Security
Head of Research of Computer Science
School of Computer Science
David Oswald is a Full Professor in the Centre for Cyber Security and Privacy at the University 麻豆精选, UK. His main field of research is the security of embedded systems and trusted execution. On the one hand, the focus is on attack methods that exploit weaknesses in the physical implementation of mathematically secure cryptographic algorithms. Those techniques include both (passive) ...
- Email
- d.f.oswald@bham.ac.uk

Senior Lecturer in Computer Security
School of Computer Science
I am a Senior Lecturer at the University 麻豆精选's School of Computer Science, and a member of the . I teach the Secure Programming and part of the Advanced Cryptography modules at Birmingham, both of them part of our Master in Cybersecurity.
For more information, please see Christophe's .

Senior Lecturer in Computer Science
School of Computer Science
Dr Eike Ritter is a Senior Lecturer for the School of Computer Science, at the University 麻豆精选. He is also a member of the group and group.
For more information, please see Eike's .
- Email
- e.ritter@cs.bham.ac.uk

Head of School of Computer Science
Chair in Decentralised Systems
School of Computer Science
Aad van Moorsel is Professor and Head of the School of Computer Science at University 麻豆精选. He is the Principal Investigator of UKFin, the UKRI EPSRC Network in Financial Services, which kicks off September 2022 to provide an interface between academia and industry.
In his current research he is spearheading efforts in financial inclusion in collaboration with Atom Bank and the Bill ...
- Email
- a.vanmoorsel@bham.ac.uk

Interdisciplinary Professorial Fellow in Law, Ethics and Informatics
Birmingham Law School
Karen Yeung joined Birmingham Law School and the University 麻豆精选’s as Interdisciplinary Professorial Fellow in Law, Ethics and Informatics in January 2018. Her research has been at the forefront of understanding the challenges associated with the regulation and governance of emerging technologies. Over the course of more than 25 ...
- Telephone
- +44 (0) 121 414 6298
- Email
- k.yeung@bham.ac.uk