Director, Cyber Technology Institute, De Montfort UniversityProfessor in Cyber Security
I research intelligent and trustworthy cyber security: preparing critical infrastructure for the quantum era, building hybrid cyber ranges, and making connected vehicles and cyber-physical systems able to detect, withstand and heal from attack.
My work sits where artificial intelligence meets energy grids, vehicles, warehouses, finance and healthcare. I focus on making those systems secure, explainable and resilient, from the network layer up to the people who defend them.
Projects funded by Ofgem, EPSRC, Innovate UK, the European Regional Development Fund and industry, largest first.
Combined value of the UK projects below, held as PI, lead, work package lead or co-investigator.
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From national energy infrastructure to the wellbeing of the people who defend it.
A hybrid physical and virtual environment for emulating emerging cyber and quantum-related attacks on energy infrastructure, so operators can rehearse and test their defences safely before threats arrive.
Ofgem and industry, £4.8M
A post-quantum threat assessment, cryptographic bill of materials and NCSC-aligned roadmap, with supplier commitments adopted by the operator.
Consultancy, £25k
Edge AI on vehicle GPUs that keeps connected vehicles safe, using federated and energy-aware learning.
EPSRC, £450k
A safe and secure driving system that detects and mitigates attempts to hijack a vehicle remotely.
Innovate UK CyberASAP
An intelligent warehouse management system combining trustworthy AI analytics, IoT automation and resilience to cyber threats.
Innovate UK KTP, £277.9k
AI that monitors and predicts stress in cyber security professionals and suggests timely interventions.
Innovate UK CyberASAP
An AI-powered digital twin supporting people in addiction recovery, explainable and privacy-preserving by design.
Innovate UK Accelerator KTP
Proactive authentication and verification for critical cyber-physical systems, tested on real V2V and V2I case studies.
CIRIC, NTU, PI
Registered software including the Non-Linear Lévy Brownian Generalized Normal Distribution Optimizer, released on MathWorks and GitHub.
Software copyrights, 2021
Spun out of the Innovate UK CyberASAP programme at the University of Wolverhampton, Tymlo builds TrustMe: a platform that gives AI developers and data scientists a score for how trustworthy their datasets and models are, during both development and deployment.
Tymlo Technology demonstrator, CyberASAP.
Work in leading IEEE, Elsevier and Springer venues. Filter by theme, or see everything on Google Scholar.
From running a school’s network infrastructure in Oman to directing a cyber security institute in Leicester.
De Montfort University, Leicester
Leading the institute’s research strategy in intelligent and trustworthy cyber security.
Nottingham Trent University
Led the Cyber Security Research Group, including the £4.8M Hybrid Cyber Range programme.
University of Wolverhampton
Course Leader for the BSc in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. Co-PI on the £2.2M SOLVED programme.
Monash University Malaysia
Final Year Project and outcome-based education coordinator. Contributed to Malaysia’s national position paper on AI and machine learning.
Universiti Malaysia Pahang
Led grants on mobility handover, flood forecasting and stock prediction.
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Pervasive Computing Research Group and the MIMOS Centre of Excellence in Telecommunication Technology, alongside part-time network engineering in Kuala Lumpur.
Al Huda Electronic School, Muscat, Oman
Ran and secured the school’s Windows server infrastructure and e-learning platform.
Teaching from Level 4 to Level 7, with hands-on labs in the tools security professionals use every day.
Recognised for research impact, for widening participation in cyber security, and for academic excellence from student days onwards.
Available for consultancy in post-quantum security, cyber risk and resilience, trustworthy AI and data visualisation.
Delivered a power grid company’s post-quantum threat assessment and NCSC-aligned roadmap, with supplier commitments adopted.
Contributed to the ASM-CREST position paper on AI and machine learning for Malaysia, presented to the National Science Council.
Tableau training and migration-plan consultancy for the Local Government Management Agency, Dublin.
Optimisation algorithms released openly on MathWorks and GitHub for other researchers to reuse.