Postgraduates
- Mr Raja Naeem Akram
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- is working in the Smart Card Centre under the supervision of Dr. Konstantinos Markantonakis. His research interest areas include Cryptography, Security Evaluation Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, and Smart Card Operating Systems.
- Room: Queens Annexe 104
- Tel: 414287
- Email: r.n.akram@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Ziyad Al-Salloum
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- is interested in computer worms and is working under the supervision of Dr Stephen Wolthusen.
- Email: Z.Al-Salloum@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Haitham Al-Sinani
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- is working with Prof. Chris Mitchell in the area of identity management, user authentication, web security and network security.
- Room: McCrea 355
- Tel: 01784 414221
- Email: H.Al-Sinani@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Fahad Alarifi
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- received an MSc in Information Security (with distinction) from RHUL in 2008, and is being supervised by Prof. Keith Martin. His research interests include distributed cryptography, network security and web entrepreneurship.
- Room: Portakabin 2
- Tel: 01784 414346
- Email: fahad_arifi@yahoo.com
- Ms Suaad Alarifi
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- has three years experience in information security, computer networking & teaching. She is working on cloud computing security supervised by Dr Stephen Wolthusen, and is also interested in computer ergonomics and working with disabled children.
- Room: McCrea 253
- Tel: 01784 443113
- Email: arifiss@yahoo.com
- Mrs Muntaha Alawneh
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- completed a B.Sc.(with distinction) from Jordan in 2004. She is a full-time PhD student in the Information Security Group interested in the area of Digital Rights Management.
- Room: McCrea 355
- Tel: 01784 414221
- Email: m.alawneh@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Said Alazri
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- has current research interests in Information Security Management Systems (ISMS) and Organisational Theory specific to Information Security Management. He is supervised by Dr. Lizzie Coles-Kemp.
- Room: McCrea 253
- Tel: 01784 443113
- Email: S.S.Alazri@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Martin Albrecht
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- works on algebraic aspects of cryptography under the supervision of Dr Carlos Cid.
- Room: McCrea 355
- Tel: 01784 414221
- Email: M.R.Albrecht@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Theofanis Alexoudas
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- is studying representation theory under the supervision of Dr Benjamin Klosch.
- Room: McCrea 253
- Tel: 01784 443113
- Email: alexoudas@hotmail.com
- Mr Nadhem Alfardan
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- is working with Prof. Kenny Paterson on network security and key management systems.
- Room: McCrea 355
- Tel: 01784 414221
- Email: nadhemj@yahoo.com
- Mr Arshad Ali
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- is a full time PhD student working under the supervision of Dr Carlos Cid. His area of interest is Cryptography.
- Room: McCrea 253
- Tel: 01784 443113
- Email: A.A.Ali@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Liaqat Ali
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- is interested in group theory and is working with Dr Benjamin Klopsch.
- Room: McCrea 253
- Tel: 01784 443113
- Email: L.Ali@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Saif Alkuwari
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- is supervised by Dr. Stephen Wolthusen and interested in computer forensics and cybercrime investigations.
- Room: McCrea 355
- Tel: 01784 414221
- Email: S.M.Alkuwari@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Waleed Alrodhan
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- completed an MSc project on federated identities, and his research interests are SSO and identity management. He received a MSc in Information Security (with distinction) from Royal Holloway, University of London in 2005.
- Email: waleed_alrodhan@hotmail.com
- Mr Daniel Appel
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- completed his M.Sc. in Mathematics at the University of Dusseldorf, Germany, under the supervision of Professor Fritz Grunewald. He is interested in Group Theory and currently works on Congruence Subgroups. Daniel is supervised by Dr. Benjamin Klopsch.
- Email: D.W.Appel@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Suranjith Ariyapperuma
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- commenced his part-time Ph.D. in April 2004. His research interests include security and resiliency for large-scale distributed systems, Network and Distributed System Security, Internet Domain Name System (DNS), and DNS Security (DNSSEC).
- Email: suranjith.ariyapperuma@anglia.ac.uk
- Mr James Birkett
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- graduated with an MSci in Mathematics from the University of Bristol in 2005. Since then he has been studying full time for a PhD under Dr. Alex Dent. His research interests include provable security and asymmetric cryptography.
- Email: j.m.birkett@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Clive Blackwell
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- is currently completing a PhD in Network Security under the supervision of Chris Mitchell with funding from the EPSRC. His thesis aims to unite the various existing Internet attack and defence taxonomies.
- Email: C.Blackwell@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Christian Bonnici
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- received a BSc in Computing & Information Systems from Goldsmith's and an MSc in Information Security (with Distinction) from Royal Holloway. His PhD research forms part of the VOME project, and he is working under the supervision of Dr Lizzie Coles-Kemp
- Room: McCrea 255
- Tel: 01784 414398
- Email: c.bonnici@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Robert Bowden
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- is a part-time student working for BT and conducting research with Dr Geraint Price on denial of service attacks and network security.
- Email: r.p.bowden@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Christian Burrell
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- commenced his PhD in 2006, under the supervision of Dr. Tobias Osborne. His research interests are Quantum Information Theory. He is currently working on quantum spin lattice systems and the propogation of information through such systems.
- Room: Portakabin 2
- Tel: 01784 414346
- Email: C.K.Burrell@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Marcelo Carlos
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- is interested in secure protocols and public key infrastructures, and is working with Dr Geraint Price.
- Room: McCrea 355
- Tel: 01784 414221
- Email: marcelo.carlos.2009@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Calvin Chen
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- is currently a PhD student in the Smart Card Centre interested in security of token devices and mobile hardware interfaces.
- Room: Founders West 152
- Tel: 01784 414939
- Email: w.d.chen@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Liang Chen
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- started his Ph.D research in September 2005 and is being supervised by Dr. Jason Crampton. His research interests include Role-based Access Control (RBAC) and XACML.
- Email: l.chen-2@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Jihoon Cho
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- joined the ISG PhD programme in 2005. His research interests include key management and secure protocol design for mobile communications.
- Email: lakeoversky@hotmail.com
- Mr Jonathan Cooley
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- is working with Dr James McKee.
- Email: j.cooley@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Stephen Crane
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- is currently registered for a part-time Ph.D. in the Information Security Group under the supervision of Prof. Fred Piper. His research interests include security protocols, in particular anonymity mechanisms and services.
- Email: Stephen_Crane@hplb.hpl.hp.com
- Mr Rosli Daud
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- is an academic at MARA University of Technology on study leave, sponsored by the Malaysian Government. He commenced his PhD in June 2008 under the supervision of Prof Keith Martin. His research interests are in cryptographic protocols and algorithms.
- Room: McCrea 247
- Tel: 01784 276142
- Email: M.R.Md-Daud@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Jean Paul Degabriele
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- is studying under the supervision of Prof. Kenny Paterson with research interests including Cryptography and Network Security.
- Room: McCrea 255
- Tel: 01784 414398
- Email: jpdega@gmail.com
- Mr Issam El Haddioui
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- commenced his PhD in October 2008 under the supervision of Prof Carlos Cid. His current research interests are economics of information security and risk management.
- Email: I.Y.El-Haddioui@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Lishoy Francis
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- has research interests including: Smart Cards and Tokens; Contactless Environment; Security issues raised by convergence of Emergent Technologies; Interoperability in Open Devices; and Content Protection and Management in Mobile & Pay TV systems.
- Room: Founders West 152
- Tel: 01784 414939
- Email: L.Francis@rhul.ac.uk
- Ms Eduarda Freire
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- is studying under Prof. Kenny Paterson with research interests including cryptography, authentication, digital signatures, finite fields and coding theory.
- Room: McCrea 247
- Tel: 01784 276142
- Email: Eduarda.Freire.2009@rhul.ac.uk
- Ms Michelle Garner
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- is studying cryptography under the supervision of Prof. Keith Martin.
- Room: McCrea 255
- Tel: 01784 414398
- Email: Michelle.Garner.2009@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Carlo Gebhardt
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- has major fields of interest in virtualization and its security aspects. He is being supervised by Allan Tomlinson.
- Room: McCrea 247
- Tel: 01784 276142
- Email: C.Gebhardt@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Michael Gilhespy
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- is studying part-time under the supervision of Dr. Stephen Wolthusen, with research interests in digital forensics.
- Email: gilhespy@quicknet.nl
- Mr Gary Greaves
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- started his PhD research in September 2008 and is working on the CASE project that is being run by Dr James McKee entitled 'Salem Numbers, Pisot Numbers, Graphs, and Matrices'.
- Room: McCrea 253
- Tel: 01784 443113
- Email: G.Greaves@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Lee Gumbrell
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- is studying combinatorial number theory with Dr Christian Elsholtz.
- Room: McCrea 253
- Tel: 01784 443113
- Email: lee.gumbrell.2009@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Ghani Haji Naim
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- is interested in block ciphers and is being supervised by Prof. Sean Murphy.
- Email: A.G.Haji-Naim@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Neil Hare-Brown
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- is supervised by Dr Chez Ciechanowicz.
- Email: neilhb@qcc.co.uk
- Ms Fiona Higgins
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- is supervised by Dr. Allan Tomlinson and her current research interests include security in sensor networks, autonomous agents and AI.
- Email: F.L.Higgins@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Graham Hili
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- is working on security and digital identity in virtual worlds, under the supervision of Dr. Keith Mayes.
- Room: Queens Annexe 104
- Tel: 01784 414287
- Email: Grham.Hili.2009@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Nick Hoare
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- is studying under the supervision of Professor Kenny Paterson and his main research areas are Cryptography and Network Security.
- Room: McCrea 253
- Tel: 01784 443113
- Email: N.S.Hoare@rhul.ac.uk
- Miss ShengLan Hu
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- has been mainly focused on wireless network security issues in general, and secure zero configuration in mobile ad hoc networks in particular, working with Prof. Chris Mitchell.
- Email: S.Hu@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Robin Hughes-Jones
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- commenced his PhD in late 2005 under Prof Simon Blackburn and Dr Christian Elsholtz. He is currently reading combinatorics but is interested in a broad range of mathematics.
- Email: robin@hughes-jones.com
- Mr Nicholas Humphrey
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- as a part-time PhD research student, under the supervision of Dr. Jason Crampton. His current research interests include unified audit trails, log consolidation and system call security policies.
- Email: n.c.p.humphrey@rhul.ac.uk
- Dr Asim Islam
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- is studying analytical number theory part-time under the supervision of Prof. Glyn Harman and Dr Christian Elsholtz. His primary interests is in Sieve Methods, Exponential Sums and other Analytic Methods of studying the distribution of primes.
- Email: Asim.Islam.2009@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Peng Jantarapatin
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- is interested in security proofs for secure protocols and cryptographic schemes and is supervised by Prof. Peter Wild..
- Email: S.Jantarapatin@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Georgios Kalogridis
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- is a part-time student (sponsored by Toshiba TRL) under the supervision of Prof. Chris Mitchell.
- Email: Georgios.Kalogridis@toshiba-trel.com
- Mr Joachim Kerner
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- is enrolled as a visiting research student under the supervision of Dr Jens Bolte, and will be visiting Royal Holloway until January 2010.
- Room: Portakabin 1
- Tel: 01784 414347
- Email: j.kerner@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Philip Leng
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- is currently studying in the Smart Card Centre as a PhD student. His current research areas include the security evaluation of different mobile operating systems and using SIM cards as a general security token in different applications.
- Room: Queens Annexe 104
- Tel: 01784 414287
- Email: X.F.Leng@rhul.ac.uk
- Mrs Sarah Leyton
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- completed an MSci in Mathematics at Royal Holloway from 2004-2008. She is studying for her PhD under the supervision of Dr. Tobias Osborne.
- Room: McCrea 253
- Tel: 01784 443113
- Email: S.K.Leyton@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Qin Li
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- is conducting research in cryptography under the supervision of Prof. Keith Martin and Dr Carlos Cid.
- Room: McCrea 255
- Tel: 01784 414398
- Email: q.li@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr John MacDonald
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- is working with the Smart Card Centre.
- Email: J.A.Macdonald@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Tamas Makai
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- is working with Dr Stefanie Gerke in the area of graph theory.
- Room: McCrea 247
- Tel: 01784 276142
- Email: tamas.makai.2009@rhul.ac.uk
- Ms Amizah Malip
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- is studying under the supervision of Dr Siaw-Lynn Ng and Prof. Keith Martin. Her research interest includes the security of cryptographic systems, particularly symmetric ciphers.
- Room: McCrea 355
- Tel: 01784 414221
- Email: A.B.M.Malip@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Thomas McEvoy
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- is a Security Architect for Vistorm. He is working with Stephen Wolthusen on intrusion detection in distributed environments, with particular relation to SCADA/DCS.
- Email: T.R.Mcevoy@rhul.ac.uk
- Ms Sarah Middleton
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- completed an MSc in Mathematics at the University of Bath. She is being supervised by Dr Yiftach Barnea in the area of group theory.
- Email: sarah.middleton.2009@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Anish Mohammed
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- has current research interests in privacy issues, especially in wireless protocols. He started his Ph.D. research in September 2003 and is being supervised by Prof. Chris Mitchell.
- Email: A.Mohammed@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Ciaran Mullan
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- is researching algebraic methods in cryptography and is supervised by Carlos Cid and Simon Blackburn.
- Room: McCrea 255
- Tel: 01784 414398
- Email: C.Mullan@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Tom Neaves
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- works as a Security Consultant for Verizon Business and is supervised by Dr. Geraint Price and advised by Prof. Kenny Paterson.
- Email: T.Neaves@rhul.ac.uk
- Ms Julia Novak
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- (previously Julia Bate) is researching methods of key management using combinatorial techniques under the supervision of Dr Keith Martin.
- Email: J.C.Bate@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Laurence O'Toole
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- is interested in block ciphers based on feistel networks and promises to finish his PhD sometime soon.
- Room: McCrea 106
- Email: L.OToole@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Anthony Palmer
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- is an information security consultant studying part-time Ph.D. student under Prof. Kenny Paterson and Prof. Johannes Zanker. His research interests include automated personal identification, identity management, biometrics, usability and PKI.
- Email: Anthony.Palmer@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Graham Palmer
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- has worked in Information Security since the 1980s in most parts of the world. He is supervised in a part-time PhD by Dr. Geraint Price. His current research interests include security methodologies and architectures.
- Email: G.M.Palmer@rhul.ac.uk
- Ms Anastasia Panoui
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- holds a B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics and an M.Sc. in Mathematical Foundations of Informatics & Applications from the University of Crete. She is studying under Prof. Simon Blackburn. Her research interest area includes Cryptography and Coding Theory.
- Room: McCrea 247
- Tel: 01784 276142
- Email: A.Panoui@rhul.ac.uk
- Ms Elizabeth Quaglia
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- completed the MSc Mathematics of Cryptography and Communications at Royal Holloway. Elizabeth started her PhD in October 2008 under the supervision of Prof. Kenny Paterson. Her main field of interest is public key cryptography.
- Room: McCrea 255
- Tel: 01784 414398
- Email: E.A.Quaglia@rhul.ac.uk
- Ms Penying Rochanakul
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- received her B.Sc. (Hons) in Mathematics from Chiang Mai University, Thailand. She is currently being supervised by Prof. Simon Blackburn and advised by Dr. Siaw-Lynn Ng.
- Room: McCrea 355
- Tel: 01784 414221
- Email: Windfade@hotmail.com
- Mr Harry Rowe
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- is interested in providing discriminated access to protected resources in a distributed environment. He is supervised by Dr. Jason Crampton and Dr. Andy Gordon of Microsoft Research (Cambridge).
- Room: Portakabin 2
- Tel: 01784 414346
- Email: A.H.Rowe@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Ian Sargeant
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- is supervised by Dr Allan Tomlinson.
- Email: i_sargeant@yahoo.co.uk
- Mr Sriramkrishnan Srinivasan
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- holds a Dorothy Hodgkins Scholarship, under the supervision of Prof Kenny Paterson. His interests are varied and include Cryptography and Network Security, Provable Security, and the analysis of protocols.
- Email: S.Srinivasan@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Muhammad Suid
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- is supervised by Dr. Lizzie Coles-Kemp. His research interests include Information Security Management Systems (ISMS) and the balancing act between Arts and Science in that matter.
- Room: McCrea 247
- Tel: 01784 276142
- Email: m.suid@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Terrence Walker
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- is studying part-time for his PhD under the supervision of Dr Lizzie Coles-Kemp, while working for a CSIRT in Belgium. He is using system dynamics as a modelling tool in order to better understand security systems.
- Email: T.C.Walker@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Gaven Watson
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- is studying for a PhD under the supervision of Prof. Kenny Paterson, entitled "The Cryptographic Analysis of End to End Security Technologies".
- Room: Portakabin 2
- Tel: 01784 414346
- Email: G.Watson@rhul.ac.uk
- Ms Zhiqian Xu
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- has research interests in distributed data protection and key management in distributed systems. She is supervised by Prof. Keith Martin.
- Email: zhiqian.xu.2009@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Wei Zhang
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- studied Mathematics Maths at the University of Cambridge. He enjoyed Number Theory and is now interested in applications of Number Theory to Cryptography. Wei is working with Alex Dent.
- Room: McCrea 255
- Tel: 01784 414398
- Email: W.Zhang-1@rhul.ac.uk
- Mr Rostom Zouaghi
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- has an MEng in Electronic and Software Engineering (2006) and an MSc in Information Security with Distinction (2008). He is conducting PhD research in mobility-aware routing and security protocols for MANETs under the supervision of Dr. Stephen Wolthusen.
- Room: McCrea 355
- Tel: 01784 414221
- Email: r.zouaghi@rhul.ac.uk