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Welcome! I have been working for the past years on the general topic of systems modelling and quantitative issues in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS).
My focus is on tackling dependability, i.e., availability, reliability, maintenance, performance, safety and security.
I am currently working at Aston University↗ as a Lecturer in Software Engineering & Cybersecurity within the School of Computer Science and Digital Technologies.
I chiefly investigate dependability + cyber security, modelling and simulation, and Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) in smart and critical infrastructure.
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Check my Pure profile at Aston↗ for my latest research outcomes.
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One question I get a lot is "How to start working with cyber security right away?". You may also find quite interesting NCSC's (UK) page on cybersecurity topics. |
Research
This is what currently interests me in research:

Engagements
- Book reviewer and work on conferences and workshops
- General Co-Chair (with Dr Paolo Milazzo, University of Pisa, Italy) in 12th International Symposium DataMod 2024: From Data to Models and Back↗ - Joint event with SEFM 2024↗
- Publicity Chair, 1st International Conference on Computing, Communication, Cybersecurity & AI↗ (The C3AI 2023)
- PC Member, 15th International Workshop on Software Aging and Rejuvenation 2023 - Joint event with ISSRE 2023↗
- PC Member, 11th International Symposium DataMod 2023: From Data to Models and Back↗ - Joint event with SEFM 2023↗
- Technical reviewer,
Math for Security↗: From Graphs and Geometry to Spatial Analysis, by Daniel Reilly (NoStarch press - September 2023)
- Technical Program Committee, UKCI'2023↗, The 22nd UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence
- Co-Program Chair, WoSAR'2022↗, The 14th Workshop on Software Aging and Rejuvenation
- Program Committee, WPerformance within SBC - Brazilian Computing Society, 2013-2019
- Finance Chair, ICGSE'2012↗, The 7th IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering
- Journals
- Associate editor, Iran Journal of Computer Science↗ (Springer), since 2017
- Editorial board member, International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology↗ (IJCAT), 2015-2019
- Reviewer (check also my Web of Science↗ or ORCID↗ profile under "Peer Review" section)
- IEEE Software↗
- Business Process Management Journal↗ (Emerald Publishing)
- Current World Environment↗
- Enterprise Information Systems↗ (Taylor & Francis)
- Information Processing & Management↗ (Elsevier)
Professional memberships
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I'm a member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)↗. Please find my profile information here↗. |
I am also an active member of The Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP)↗. |
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