Dr Joe Gardiner
BSc (Hons), PhD, MSc, PhD
Current positions
Lecturer
School of Computer Science
Contact
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Research interests
My research interests include the security of cyber-physical systems, the design of robust controller architectures for software defined networks and the security of machine learning.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Bristol Cyber Defence Exercise on Critical National Infrastructure
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Dates
01/05/2023 to 30/09/2023
CyFoo - Cybersecurity for Food Security
Principal Investigator
Role
Researcher
Description
CyFoo studies the impact of malicious actors and vulnerabilities on the food supply. The project aims to investigate vulnerabilities and their impact in order to develop a risk analysis framework…Managing organisational unit
Dates
01/09/2019 to 31/08/2022
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
20/11/2025Reasoning That Leaks, Fine-Tuning That Amplifies
ASIA CCS '26: 21st ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security
Time-to-lie
2025 IEEE 45th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)
Steering in the Shadows
Steering in the Shadows
The dark deep side of DeepSeek
The dark deep side of DeepSeek
Capture The Industrial Flag
ACM CPSS 2024 - Proceedings of the 10th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop
