Dr Benjamin Aziz
Senior Lecturer
School of Computing
University of Portsmouth

·       Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) in the UK

·       Educational Affiliate Employee Member of the BCS

·       Member of the IEEE

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Research

I am interested in all areas of research related to Cyber and data security.  More specifically, I am interested in the security engineering and modeling of large-scale systems such as Clouds and IoT systems, analysis of Cyber-security datasets to understand Cyber risk and the application of computer science methodologies such as formal modeling, requirements engineering etc. to understand better security and risk in Cyber systems. At the School of Computing, I am a member of the Networks and Security Research Group.

Teaching

The subjects I teach range from security and cryptography at the undergraduate level, to computer security, risk management and requirements engineering at the postgraduate levels.

Past Experience

Before joining the University of Portsmouth in 2010, I worked as a Senior Research Scientist at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council.  Before that, I was a researcher at several academic institutes, including Imperial College London, University College Cork and Dublin City University.

Profile

I am a member of several academic networks and working groups including 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.  In the past, I was also a member of EPSRCճ CryptoForma network, and I worked in several European projects involving a substantial element of research in security and trust management, including FP6 projects GridTrust and XtreemOS and FP7 project Consequence. I am currently an Associate Editor of Wileyճ Security and Communication Networks journal and I am a member of several program committees for international conferences and workshops.

Current and Past Research Supervisions

Gulsum Akkuzu (PhD student, Analysis of Security Datasets and Policies)

Ali Al-Haj (PhD Student, Digital Forensics of Software-Defined Networking)

Mehdi Behamin (PhD student, Formal Analysis of IoT Protocols)

Vijayalakshmi Chakravarthy (PhD student, Cloud Program Parallelization)

Sara Kadry (PhD Student, Security Monitoring of Cloud-based Systems)

Ali Malik (PhD student, Efficient Fault Tolerance in Software-Defined Networking)

Dr Paul Fremantle (PhD, finished 2017)

Dr Omed Khalind (PhD, finished 2015)

Dr Ioana Sporea (PostDoc, finished 2012)

Benjamin Aziz, 2010 – 2019