I am a Senior Research Engineer at Samsung Research UK, working as a Web Standards Technologist. Previously, I held tenure track professorship positions at the University of Surrey and Durham University.

Past Affiliations

• Senior Lecturer (tenure track Assistant Professor) in Software Security at Surrey Centre for Cyber Security, University of Surrey (2023 - 2025)
• Tenure Track Assistant Professor at Department of Computer Science, Durham University, (2020 - 2023)
• Research Associate (Postdoctoral Researcher) at the Secure and Resilient Systems (SRS) Group of Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (2018 - 2020)
• PhD at Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, Thesis

Media Appearances (Selected)

• Physical Security (Anti-counterfeiting Technologies): ACM Communications, E&T, The Economist, and Wall Street Journal
• Deep Learning Acoustic Side Channel Attack: CNBC, CBS, IEEE Spectrum, New Scientist
• Sensor Security (ML-based side-channel attacks): BBC, The Guardian
• Verifiable e-voting system (Cryptographically verifiable and self-enforcing voting): BBC, CoinDesk

Public Engagements (Selected)

• Invited Talk, Security Awareness Special Interest Group(SaSig) Event, Ethics in cybersecurity: Shaping a secure digital future
• Invited Talk, Surrey Security Cluster, Authenticating Physical Objects
• Interview, Zero Degrees Podcast, The role of large language models in shifting the threats in cyber security
• Panel Member, MozFest’23, on Security and Privacy of fertility-related smart devices
• Invited Talk, Sutton Trust Summer School , A Discussion on Trust, and Security
• Panel Member, Dynamo 20, FinTrust: A discussion of tech, social & ethical approaches to establish trust in FinTech

Exhibitions

• Co-organiser of the Cyfer art exhibition: artworks and designs that respond to scientific research on the privacy, security, and ethics of female-oriented technology. Some artefacts were presented in Victoria and Albert Museum afterwards for two weeks.

Academic Services

• Co-organiser and co-chair: CyberMi2و annual event on on Cybersecurity and Privacy for Minority and Minoritized People, 2023 (held in Royal Holloway University of London), 2024 (held in Birmingham University), will be at Edinburgh University in August 2025
• Associate Editor in Security: IET The Journal of Engineering
• Invited Reviewer/PC member (selected) NSS-SocialSec('23,'25), SSR Conference(18,19,20), STAST Conference('23,'24), PriST-AI’23. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics Security (TIFS), IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), etc.
• Guest Editor: Sensors journal (Special issue on AI Systems Design for IoT Applications)
• Member and Speaker: CryptoForma EPSRC Network of Excellence.