Professor Awais Rashid
BSc, MSc, PhD
Current positions
Professor of Cyber Security
School of Computer Science
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Research interests
Head, Bristol Cyber Security Group
Director, National Research Centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence Online (REPHRAIN))
Director, EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Cyber Security: Trust, Identity, Privacy and Security in Large-scale Infrastructures (TIPS-at-Scale)
Principle Investigator and Editor-in-Chief, Cyber Security Body of Knowledge (CyBOK)
My research spans cyber security and software engineering. I focus on novel software modularity techniques that underpin software that is adaptable, evolvable and resilient in the face of changes and the volatile nature of user requirements and behaviours in the modern digital world. This naturally ties in with my cyber security research which focuses on developing tools and techniques that are adaptable to the constantly changing threat patterns utilised by criminals online. I am particularly interested in security of cyber-physical systems, such as, industrial control systems and Internet of Things. I am also a keen researcher of adversarial and non-adversarial behaviours pertaining to cyber security. I lead projects as part of the UK Research Institute on Trustworthy Industrial Control Systems (RITICS) and UK Research Institute on Socio-technical Cyber Security (RISCS), the National Centre of Excellence on Cyber Security of Internet of Things (PETRAS) and am a member of the UK Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST). I also lead research on readiness of software engineers and developers to work with new secure hardware as part of the ESRC Hub on Digital Security by Design (Discribe). I am a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute. Prior to joining the University of Bristol, I was co-founder and co-director of the Security Lancaster Institute at Lancaster University.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
REPHRAIN: National Research centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence online (Phase II)
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Computer ScienceDates
01/09/2024 to 31/03/2025
Securing Convergent Ultra-large Scale Infrastructures
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Computer ScienceDates
01/09/2024 to 31/08/2029
Securing Convergent Ultra-large Scale Infrastructures (SCULI)
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Computer ScienceDates
01/09/2024 to 31/08/2029
Securing Convergent Ultra-large Scale Infrastructures (SCULI)
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Computer ScienceDates
01/09/2024 to 31/08/2029
Securing Convergent Ultra-large Scale Infrastructures (SCULI)
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Computer ScienceDates
01/09/2024 to 31/08/2029
Thesis supervisions
Deviant Security
Supervisors
Human Detection of Attacks Against Cyber-Physical Systems
Supervisors
Usable Abstractions for Secure Programming
Supervisors
Publications
Selected publications
01/05/2019The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Discovering "unknown known" security requirements
Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2016, Austin, TX, USA, May 14-22, 2016
It Bends But Would It Break? Topological Analysis of BGP Infrastructures in Europe
IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, EuroSP 2016, Saarbrücken, Germany, March 21-24, 2016
Recent publications
15/03/2024Analysing the activities of far-right extremists on the Parler social network
Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2023
Community security champions: Studying the most influential users on Security Stack~Exchange
IEEE Secure Development Conference
Porting to Morello
2024 IEEE 9th European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P)
Unveiling the Hunter-Gatherers: Exploring Threat Hunting Practices and Challenges in Cyber Defense
USENIX Security Symposium 2024
When Data Breaches Happen, Where Does the Buck Stop ... and Where Should it Stop?
Proceedings of New Security Paradigms Workshop