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Dr Benjamin Aziz
Lecturer at the School of Computing,
University of Portsmouth
 
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Research and Development Career
My
main research interests generally include areas of large-scale distributed
systems such as Grid and Cloud computing, formal methods and foundations of
computing systems, trust and security management and requirements
engineering. I am also open to ideas
in other security-related areas, such as digital forensics and their theory
and application in the context of complex distributed systems.
Before
joining the School of Computing, I worked as a senior research scientist at
e-Science Centre in the Rutherford Appleton
Laboratory, Didcot, Oxfordshire, until 2010 where
I was strongly involved in research in several European projects, such as
the EU FP6 project GridTrust,
developing security and trust management solutions for Grid systems, EU FP6
CoreGrid
network of excellence in the trust and security group, EU FP7 project Consequence,
dealing with context-aware data-centric security and EU FP6 IP XtreemOS, a
distributed operating system for Grids, designing and analysing the
security and trust management component of XtreemOS. Before then, I worked as a researcher in
several universities including Imperial
College London, University
College Cork and Dublin City University.
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Qualifications
In
2003, I obtained a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the School of
Computing, Dublin City University, in the area
of formal verification of security properties in mobile and distributed
systems. Prior to that, in 1999, I
obtained a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science in the area of Networks and
Distributed Systems from the School of Computer Science and Statistics,
Trinity College Dublin. My original
background is in Electronics Engineering and I have a B.Sc. degree from the
department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Garyounis University, Libya (1995), where prior to
that, I completed a couple of academic years (1990-1992) in the University of Mosul,
Iraq.
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Certificates
I am a
Certified Forensic Investigation Practitioner (CFIP) in Computer Forensics
(7Safe,
2011).
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Professional Activities
I am a
member of several working groups including the Cloud Computing Security
Alliance, ERCIM Formal Methods for Industrial and Critical Systems, ERCIM
Security and Trust Management and IFIP WG 11.3 on Data and Application
Security and Privacy. I am also
involved in NESSI’s
activities in areas of trust, security and dependability, as well as being
NESSI’s contact person for the University of Portsmouth.
I also
coordinate the Computer
Security and Digital Forensics Research Group in
the School of Computing.
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Current External Collaborators
Olga Kouchnarenko (LIFC,
France), Thomas Kirkham (University of Leeds), Alvaro Arenas (IE, Madrid), , Philippe
Massonet and Christophe Ponsard (CETIC, Belgium),
Lorenzo Blasi (HP, Italy), Bruno Crispo (UNITN, Italy)
Some Past Collaborators
Dublin City University, University College
Cork, e-Science Centre (STFC), IIT-CNR, Laboratoire
Informatiques Ecole Normale Superieure, INRIA,
SAP
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Research Assistants
Ph.D. Students
Omed Khalind
Zirak Q. Alaf
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