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Research interests
I am a Senior Research Associate at the Bristol Cyber Security Group. My research spans text mining and cyber security and focuses on developing new tools and techniques to support law enforcement agencies in their investigations pertaining to cyber crime. More particularly, my work has focused on automatically detecting child abuse media on P2P networks, identifying deceptive users and scammers in online social media and analysing cybercriminal communications on Darknet markets. I am also interested in the use of Artificial Intelligence for user data analysis and PETs in the context of children's rights.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
ACCEPT (REPHRAIN)
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
The project will explore it will explore aspects such as:
o The different types of data arising from different types of PETs
o The use of this data for different purposes…Managing organisational unit
School of ManagementDates
01/04/2021 to 31/07/2022
iCOP 2.0 - AI-based advances for law enforcement’s response to online child sexual exploitation and abuse in southeast Asia
Principal Investigator
Role
Researcher
Description
The project is developing new AI technology for automatically detecting new or previously unknown online child sexual abuse media from Southeast Asia in peer-to-peer file sharing networks. Awareness raising and…Managing organisational unit
Department of Computer ScienceDates
01/01/2021 to 01/01/2023
REPHRAIN: REsearch centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial INfluence online
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
The REsearch centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial INfluence online (REPHRAIN) will bring together the UK's substantial academic, industry, policy and third sector capabilities to address the current tensions…Managing organisational unit
Department of Computer ScienceDates
01/10/2020 to 30/09/2023
AMoC: Advanced Modelling of Cyber Criminal Careers
Principal Investigator
Role
Researcher
Description
Recent research in debriefing arrested criminals has identified that cyber crime is not a solitary and anti-social activity, but one wherein online social interactions play a critical role in the…Managing organisational unit
Department of Computer ScienceDates
01/01/2019
Detecting and Preventing Mass-Marketing Fraud (MMF)
Principal Investigator
Role
Researcher
Description
The DAPM project will develop novel techniques to detect and prevent online mass marketing fraud (MMF), a major and growing problem that generates significant social anxiety and psychological impact. DAPM…Managing organisational unit
Department of Computer ScienceDates
01/12/2016 to 30/11/2018
Publications
Recent publications
07/09/2021The Impact of Adverse Events in Darknet Markets: an Anomaly Detection Approach
Detecting Deceptive Behaviour in the Wild
Automatically dismantling online dating fraud
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
Towards forensic-ready software systems
International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2018)
