EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Cyber Security

Year 2 Student - 2023 Cohort - Cohort 5

My academic background is into Engineering and Cybersecurity. I also have over a decade of experience working as a DevSecOps Specialist for Multinational and research organisations. My working experience helped me develop interests into areas of Cybersecurity like Cyberbiosecurity and threat management.

Implementing Differential Privacy: An evaluation from Developers’ Standpoint

We want to help developers to get Differential Privacy (DP) right. Balancing privacy and utility has been an area of research when developing Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) to extract valuable information from datasets while preserving privacy controllably. DP is one way to guarantee privacy and mitigate the amount of information disclosed. Existing tools for DP have usability gaps that reduce their adoption by developers. By making DP more usable, we can help drive adoption of the technique.

This PhD aims to:
1. Simplify DP concepts for developers to drive adoption.
2. Understand how DP fits with privacy and regulatory guidelines, and whether it is supported by current implementations.
3. Work out how to fit DP techniques into existing data analysis and machine learning pipelines.

Supervisors: Dr Joseph Hallett (Bristol) and Dr François Dupressoir (Bristol)

• https://www.infosecurityeurope.com/
• https://www.ga4gh.org/event/12th-plenary-2/

• Academic Placement with Inah Omoronyia (Bristol Cyber Security
  Group) on "Vulnerability Prioritization and Shift Left Security in Software Systems"
• Industry Placement with GENXT on "Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) in Infrastructure Orchestration Systems"