Dr. M. Rajarajan (Lead UK)
City University
r.muttukrishnan@city.ac.uk
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Dr Rajarajan graduated with a B.Eng. degree in Electrical Electronic and Information Engineering from City University London in 1994. He then stayed at City University as a research student and worked on the computer modelling of optical communications devices. His PhD project was funded by the Overseas Research Studentship (ORS). In 1999, he took a Research Fellow position at City University and worked on an EPSRC/DERA funded project.

In August 2000, he moved to LogicaCMG as a Network and Services Management Consultant and worked on various Telecommunication related projects.  In January 2002, he moved back to City University as a Lecturer, where he became involved in the research at the Instrumentation & Sensors Research Cluster and teaching in the School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences. Dr Rajarajan has published more than 100 Journal and Conference papers in the area of Photonics, e-health and Wireless Security.  He is the Technical Chair of the e-Health 2008 Conference at City University, London (www.electronic-health.org).  He is the Chief Technology Officer for GoQuo Ltd and Elaramed UK.

Professor Chris Mitchell
Information Security Group
Royal Holloway, University of London
Tel. (direct line) 01784 443423

Tel. (secretary) 01784 443101
Fax: 01784 430766
Email: C.Mitchell@rhul.ac.uk (work) or me@chrismitchell.net (home)
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Prior to his appointment as Professor of Computer Science at Royal Holloway, University of London, in March 1990, he was a Project Manager in the Networks and Communications Laboratory of Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Bristol, which he joined in June 1985. Between 1979 and 1985 he was at Racal-Comsec Ltd. (Salisbury, UK), part of Racal Electronics Plc, latterly as Chief Mathematician. Since joining Royal Holloway in 1990 he has played a role in the development of the Information Security Group, and helped launch the MSc in Information Security in 1992 and the MSc in Secure Electronic Commerce in 1999. He spent the academic year 1996-97 on leave of absence from Royal Holloway as a full-time consultant at Europay International, Waterloo, Belgium. He continues to act as a consultant on a variety of topics in information security.

His main research interests are in information security and combinatorial mathematics and its applications. He has made contributions to a number of international collaborative projects.

He is currently convenor of Technical Panel 2 of BSI IST/33, dealing with Security Mechanisms and providing input to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC27 on which he currently serves as a UK Expert and as editor of three international security standards: ISO/IEC 11770-2 (key management using symmetric techniques - 2nd edition), ISO/IEC 19772 (authenticated encryption) and, as co-editor with Bart Preneel, ISO/IEC 9797-1 (MACs based on block ciphers - 4th edition). He previously served as editor of ISO/IEC 9796-2 (digital signatures giving message recovery - 2nd edition, and a subsequent amendment), ISO/IEC 9798-2 (entity authentication based on symmetric encryption - 2nd edition), ISO/IEC 9798-4 (entity authentication based on MACs - 2nd edition), ISO/IEC 9798-5 (zero-knowledge based authentication protocols - 1st edition), ISO/IEC 9798-6 (manual authentication protocols - 1st edition), ISO/IEC 10118-3 (dedicated hash-functions - 1st edition), and ISO/IEC 18033-1 (encryption - 1st edition). Details of published ISO standards are available from the ISO Web Page. He is a member of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board, and a member of the DoCoMo Euro-Labs Advisory Board. He is academic editor of Computer and Communications Security Abstracts. He is a member of the editorial board of The Computer Journal and the International Journal of Information Security. He is a member of the Panel of Assessors for the British Computer Society's BCS Professional Advice Register: Security Section. He was appointed as a member of the UKAS Information Security Technical Advisory Forum in 2003.

Dr.Mukesh Mohania
Senior Manager, IBM

Mukesh Mohania received his Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India in 1995. He was a faculty member in University of South Australia, Western Michigan University from 1995-2001. He was also associated with Kyoto University and Purdue University as Senior Research Fellow from 1996-2001. Currently, he is senior manager in IBM India Research Lab and leading information and interaction team. He has worked extensively in the areas of Rule processing in distributed databases, data warehousing, semi/unstructured databases, data integration, and autonomic computing. He received the best papers award in CIKM 2004 and 2005. He has received the "Excellence in People Management Award" 2007 from IBM Corporation. He is IEEE Distinguished Speaker and IEEE senior member.

Dr.Martin Koyabe
Security Research Centre (SRC) BT Group CTO Research & Venture
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Martin Koyabe works as a Senior Security Researcher in the Security Research Centre (SRC) BT Group CTO Research & Venture.  He leads research in Denial of Service (DoS) mitigation architectures, anomaly detection, bots and botnets, penetration testing methodologies, ethical hacking,security compliance and governance.  Before joining BT, Martin worked for 3 years as a post doctorate research fellow in the Electronics Research Group (ERG), University of Aberdeen after graduating with a PhD in Communications Engineering. The bulk of his research focused on designing and deploying secure reliable IP Multicast transport protocols over next-generation satellite networks operating at extra high-frequencies (EHF).  He has published widely in international conferences and technical journals, and co-invented several patents.
 
Martin is a certified security testing associate and professional (CSTA & CSTP); a member of European Research Association (EU-RA), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE)-UK, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Internet Society (ISOC) and active participant with Communication Research Networks (CRN) in Denial of Service (DoS) Working Group activities.

Prof. K.T.V. Grattan
City University
k.t.v.grattan@city.ac.uk
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Kenneth T V Grattan was born in Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland on 09 December 1953. He received his Bachelors degree in Physics (with first class honors) from The Queen’s University, Belfast in 1974 and completed his PhD studies in 1978, graduating from the same University. In the same years he became a post-doctoral research assistant at Imperial College, London. His research during that period was on laser systems for photophysical systems investigations, and he and his colleagues constructed some of the first of the then new category of excimer lasers (XeF, KrF) in Europe in 1976. His work in the field continued with research using ultraviolet and vacuum ultraviolet lasers for photolytic laser fusion driver systems and studies on the photophysics of atomic and molecular systems.

He joined City University, London in 1983 after 5 years at Imperial College, undertaking research in novel optical instrumentation, especially in fiber optic sensor development for physical and chemical sensing. The work has led into several fields including luminescence-based thermometry, Bragg-grating based strain sensor systems, white light interferometry, optical system modeling and design and optical sensors for water quality monitoring. The work has been extensively published in the major journals and at international Conferences in the field, where regularly he has been an invited speaker, and over 600 papers have been authored to date. Multi-million dollar sponsorship for the work has come from industry, the research councils in the UK, the European Union and the Professional Bodies, with over 40 PhD students graduating during that time. He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science by City University in 1992. Professor Grattan is currently Deputy Dean of Engineering at City University, London having from 1991 – 2001 been Head of the then Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering Department. He was Chairman of the Applied Optics Division of the UK Institute of Physics and President of the Institute of Measurement and Control in 2000.

Dr. Nathan Clarke
Information Security and Network Research, University of Plymouth
Edith Cowan University, Western Australia
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Dr Clarke graduated with a BEng (Hons) degree in Electronic Engineering in 2001 and a PhD in 2004 from the University of Plymouth. He has remained at the institution and now is a lecturer in Information Systems Security within the Centre for Information Security and Network Research. Dr Clarke is also an adjunct scholar at Edith Cowan University, Western Australia. His research interests reside in the area of user identity, mobility and intrusion detection; having published 32 papers in international journals and conferences. Dr Clarke is a member of the British Computing Society (BCS), the Institute of Engineering Technology (IET) and a UK representative in the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) working groups relating to Information Management and Identity Management. During his career he has worked with a variety of organisations such as France-Telecom, Symantec, Department of Trade and Industry, EduServ Foundation and local government. Dr Clarke is the co-chair of an innovative new symposium series on the Human Aspects of Information Security & Awareness (HAISA).

Professor Wendy L. Currie
Head of Information Systems and Management Group, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
Tel: +44 (0) 24 765 24262
Fax: +44 (0) 24 7652 4539
wendy.currie@wbs.ac.uk
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Wendy is Professor in Information Systems with WBS and Head of the Information Systems and Management Group. Prior to joining WBS, she held Professorial posts at Brunel and Sheffield universities. Wendy is currently doing research into the healthcare industry, with particular attention on developing and implementing large scale information systems and communications technologies for clinical and non-clinical applications. She has gained research funding from the ERSC, EPSRC and EU. She on the editorial boards of several IS and Management journals, including, Journal of Information Technology, Strategic Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Change Management, the International Journal of Management Reviews and formally served as Associate Editor on Management Information Sciences Quarterly and the European Journal of Information Systems.

She has published widely in journals such as Information & Organization, Public Administration, European Journal of Information Systems and British Journal of Management. She co-chairs an AIS (Association for Information Systems) sponsored special interest group (SIG-ISO) whichruns two popular conference tracks at the America's conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) and the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS). She has published several books including, 'Value Creation from E-Business Models' (2004), 'The Global Information Society' (2000), and 'Rethinking Management Information Systems (2000). She gained a PhD in Management from Henley Management College in 1988. This work looked at the selection and evaluation of computer-aided design technology (CAD) in the UK engineering industry.

Professor Rekha Jain
Executive Chair, Telecom Centre of Excellence
Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India
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Rekha Jain is the Executive Chair of the Telecom Centre of Excellence and Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India. Currently she is an editorial board member of Journal of Global Information Management (JGIM) and Board Member of several professional organizations.She has consulted with several national and international organizations in the area of Telecom Policy and ICT Strategy. In her rural telecom related work, she has worked with rural development institutions and organizations. She was involved in an International Study on IT Applications and Telecom Policy in Southeast Asian countries. Her research and teaching interest are in telecom policy and regulation in the areas of rural telecom, ICT strategy and management, spectrum management and local exchange competition as well as in Information System Implementation. She has several publications in national and international journals. She has a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India. She was a recipient of senior Fulbright Fellowship on Telecom Regulation in 1997-98.

Dr. T. Sun
City University
t.sun@city.ac.uk
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Tong Sun was awarded the degrees of Bachelor of Engineering, Master of Engineering and Doctor of Engineering for work in Mechanical Engineering from the Department of Precision Instrumentation of Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China in 1990, 1993 and 1996 respectively. She was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at City University in applied physics in 1999 and was an Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore from year 2000 to 2001 before she re-joined City University in late 2001 as a Lecturer. Subsequently she was promoted to a Senior Lecturer in 2003 and to a Reader in 2006 at City University, London. Dr Sun is a member of the Institute of Physics and of theInstitution of Engineering and Technology and a Chartered Physicist and a Chartered Engineer in the United Kingdom. Her research interest is in optical fibre sensors, instrumentation, laser Engineering and optical communications. She has authored or co-authored some 100 scientific and technical papers.

Prof. B. M. A. Rahman
City University
b.m.a.rahman@city.ac.uk
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B. M. Azizur Rahman received BSc Eng and MSc Eng degrees in Electrical Engineering with distinctions from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 1976 and 1979, respectively. He also received two gold medals for being the best undergraduate and graduate student of the University in 1976 and 1979, respectively. He received his PhD degree in Electronic Engineering from University College, London in 1982. From 1976 to 1979, he was a Lecturer at the Electrical Engineering Department, BUET. After completing his Ph.D. he joined University College London as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow and continued his research work on the finite element modelling of optical waveguide until 1988. In 1988, he joined the Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering Department of City University, London, as a Lecturer, where he is now a Professor. Prof. Rahman is a Member of the Institute of Engineering Technology (formerly IEE), England, Members, Optical Society of America, and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (USA). At City University, he leads the research group on Photonics Modelling, specialised in the development and use of the rigorous and full-vectorial numerical approaches, frequency domain modal solution approach, the beam propagation method, and tim-domain approach, primarily based on the numerically efficient finite element method. He has published more than 300 journals and conference papers, in the areas of optical waveguides, integrated optics, single polarisation guides, photonic devices, such as high-speed modulators and switches, power splitters, compact bend designs, polarisation splitters, polarisation rotators, polarisation controllers, spot-size converters, optical amplifiers, narrow-band optical filters, nonlinear optical devices, optical structures supporting surface-plasmon modes, photonic crystal fibres, and THz waveguides. His journal papers have been cited more than 1100 times.

Prof. Robin Williams
Chair of Research Committee
School of Applied Social Sciences,Durham University
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Books: authored

• Williams, R & Johnson, P 2008. Genetic Policing: The Use of DNA in Criminal Investigations. Willan Publishing.
• Williams, R 2000. Making Identity Matter. York: sociologypress.

Research Interests

• Expertise and credibility
• Identity and accountability
• Sociology of forensic science and technologies of identification

Research Groups

• Identities, Technologies and Society

Dr. Itiel E. Dror, Ph.D.
Principal Consultant & Researcher
Cognitive Consultants International (CCI)
Itiel@CognitiveConsultantsInternational.com
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His academic scientific work relates to theoretical issues underlying human performance and cognition. The research examines the information processing involved in perception, judgment and decision making. He have published more than 50 peer-reviewed scientific articles and serve on the editorial board of several journals (e.g., He is currently on the editor board for the journals Pragmatics & Cognition and Forensic Science Policy & Management).

His speciality is in taking the most theoretical scientific understanding of the human mind, brain and cognition, and translating it into practical and tangible ways to improve human performance in real world domains. This applied research and consultancy has primarily focused on training, decision making, and use of technology. For example, he have advised how to use technology (e.g., interactive videos, web design, gaming) to make training more effective, helped organisations understand the cognitive aptitudes and skills needed for specific task performance (and designed tools useful to predict job performance and for selection & screening), developed ways to minimize expert examiners’ vulnerability to confirmation and other cognitive biases, and conducted research and training on how to best utilize technology in the workplace. For more information on specific areas, see Forensic & Biometric Identification, Training, and Cognition & Technology.

The applied research and consultancy has taken place in a variety of countries and has included governmental bodies (such as the UK Passport and Identity Services; the US Air Force; and Police Forces in the UK, the US, the Netherlands and Israel) and commercial companies (such as Orange, Deutsche Bank, PWC, and IBM), as well as providing expert reports and testimonies in court cases (such as in the Levi Bellfield case in the High Criminal Court at the Old Bailey in London, and in the Troy Worsley double homicide case in the Superior Criminal Court of Washington DC).

Rowena Rodrigues
University of Edinburgh
School of Law
Email: R.E.Rodrigues@sms.ed.ac.uk

Rowena Rodrigues graduated with a BA (Economics) and LLB from Goa University. Subsequently, she completed her Masters in Innovation, Technology and Law through the University of Edinburgh with courses in Information Technology Law, Intellectual Property Law and Law and New Technologies. Her dissertation topic was “Radio Frequency Identification: Analysis of Privacy Concerns, Technical Solutions and Regulation.” She is currently a doctoral student at the University of Edinburgh. Her thesis focuses on “Digital identity and Law” and explores the conceptualisations and manifestations of digital identity along with key regulatory issues (with baseline jurisdictions being the UK and India). This research aims at determining whether it is possible for a single conceptualisation of digital identity to account for the varied and multiple identity manifestations in play in the different worlds; what this signifies for legal regulation of identity and whether there is in turn, “one right solution” to the problem of digital identity management. Her other research interests and expertise include: identity and identification practices, data protection and privacy law and personality rights. During 2006-07, she was Managing Editor of SCRIPT-ed- a Journal of Law, Technology & Society at SCRIPT (the Law and Technology research centre bases in the School of Law, University of Edinburgh and sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council).