I am Associate Professor at University College Dublin at the School of Computer Science and a funded investigator at Lero - the Irish Software Research Centre. I am also the Director of the UCD MSc in Cybersecurity.
I am part of the SPARE research group.
My research interests include requirements engineering and adaptive systems. My work has focused on using runtime models to engineer complex systems, including cyber-physical systems, in order to satisfy their security requirements, and ensure that they are forensic-ready and comply with data protection regulations.
If you are interested in doing research about secure software engineering and have a passion for making things concrete and not just on paper, drop me a line. Several thesis topics, as well as smaller projects are available around these themes!
News
25/08/2023 TSE Editorial Board: I was appointed as a member of the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) editorial board.
07/07/2023 Fanny successfully defended her PhD: My PhD student Fanny Rivera Ortiz successfully defended her PhD thesis titled "Engineering Forensic-Ready Software Systems Using Automated Logging".
01/05/2023 SEAMS 2024 PC Co-Chair : I will be program co-chair of the 19th International Conference on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS 2024).
Service
Scientific events I am currently involved in:
SEAMS 2024 (PC Co-Char): 19th International Conference on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS 2024).
ICSE 2024 (PC Member): 46th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2023).
RE 2024 (PC member): 31st International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2024).
REFSQ 2024 (PC member): 30th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ 2023).
PhD Students
I am lucky to supervise the following PhD students:
Fanny Rivera-Ortiz, Engineering Forensic-Ready Systems using Automated Logging.
Konstantinos Ntafloukas, Cyber Risk Assessment in Critical Transportation Infrastructures, co-supervised with Dr. Daniel McCrum.
Faithful Chiagoziem Onweugbuche, Adaptive Ransomware Detection, co-supervised with Dr. Anca Jurcut.
Kushal Ramkumar, Sustainable Adaptive Security, co-supervised with Prof. Bashar Nuseibeh.
Ruth Buckley, Cyber Information Sharing in ISACs, co-supervised with Profs. Markus Helfert and Bashar Nuseibeh.
Past PhD Students
Mazen Azzam, "Physics-based Early Warnings for Forensic Readiness in Industrial Control Systems". Mazen is now Optical Sensing Engineer at ASML, The Netherlands
Faeq Alrimawi, "Software Engineering for Forensic-Ready Cyber-Physical Systems".
Faeq is now Assistant Professor at the University of Limerick.