Ehsan Toreini
Research.
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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. I will not talk about my current focus in Samsung Research and W3C here. Below is a brief of what I did in academia:

Research

  • Physical Security
  • Socio-technical Machine Learning
  • Privacy in the Web
  • Cryptographic protocols and decentralized auditing

Publications

Most updated list is in my Scholar Profile, but more detail for each paper is here

Research Team (all alumni now)

  • James Clarke (PhD candidate), funded by Surrey University.
  • Scott Harper (Research Associate), part of AGENCY project.
  • Kevin Kuriakose (KTP Associate), co-supervised with Prof. Bonnie Buchanan.
  • Adriano Bermudez Villalva (Research Associate), part of Cyfer project, co-supervised with Dr. Maryam Mehrnezhad.
  • Vinod Khandkar (Research Associate), part of AP4L project, co-supervised with Prof. Nishanth Sastry.
  • Kieron Ivy Turk(Research Associate), part of AP4L project, co-supervised with Prof. Nishanth Sastry.
  • Alexander Boyd (PhD candidate), co-supervised with Prof. Nishanth Sastry. and Dr. Suparna De
  • Saeed Fadaei (PhD candidate), co-supervised with Prof. Nishanth Sastry.
  • Stella Kazamia (PhD candidate), co-supervised with Prof. Helen Trehan.
  • Stephen Cook (PhD candidate), co-supervised with Dr. Maryam Mehrnezhad.
  • Patrick Wake (PhD candidate, Global Head of Information Security, FDM Group), co-supervised with Prof. Sue Black.
  • Amira Saleem (PhD candidate), co-supervised with Dr. Gaganjeet Aujla.
  • Josh Harrison (Research Project, 2022) --> Software Development Engineer @ Amazon uk
  • Jack Reeves (Research Project, 2022) --> Digital Consultant @ Newton Europe
  • Jia Xiu Sai (Research Project, 2022) --> Graduate Software Engineer @ THG
  • Max Dormon (Research Project, 2022) --> Software Engineer @ JPMorgn Chase

Grants

YearNameDescription
2024–2025Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP)Co-Investigator in KTP project on trustworthy machine learning in investment sector
2024-2025Apple Security Research Device ProgramCollaboration with Royal Holloway University of London, our team won a special Apple iPhone for the purpose of security studies
2022–2025AGENCY: Assuring Citizen Agency in a World with Complex Online HarmsCo-Investigator in EPSRC-funded project on privacy-enhancing technologies for citizens
2022–2025AP4L: Adaptive PETs to Protect & Promote Participation OnlineCo-Investigator in EPSRC-funded project on adaptive PETs in marginalised online communities
2021–2023Cyfer: Cybersecurity and Privacy in Fertility TechnologiesCo-I in PETRAS-funded (project) and Virtual Cyfer Art Exhibition
2022–2023Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP)Co-Investigator in KTP project on trustworthy machine learning in weight management recommender systems
2019StandICT GrantGrant to collaborate with W3C on sensor API privacy leakages

Research Impact

YearProductProjectDetail
2023W3CAcknowledged in the standardisation for pressure sensors
2019Patent in the USANovel method for preventing counterfeiting of an object
2018Mozilla FirefoxMozilla Firefox deployed a fix on Firefox 46 (CVE-2016-2813)
2018Apple iOSSafari fix in iOS 9.3 (CVE-2016-1780)
2016W3CPrivacy and Security section added to Motion/Orientation standard
2014Apple SafariVulnerabilities in Private Browsing (bug report #14685058)

Honours and Awards