Research team
COSPI has a diverse and interdisciplinary membership from across the Schools at City and externally.
Co-Directors
COSPI’s two Co-Directors bring a combined wealth of knowledge and experience from the host schools of the School of Policy and Global Affairs (SPGA) and the School of Science & Technology (SST) to the interdisciplinary work of the Centre.
Muttukrishnan Rajarajan
Professor of Security Engineering, Schools for Science and Technology
Areas of expertise: Identity, privacy, fintech, internet of things, cloud, social media intelligence
Carrie Myers
Professor of Criminology and Victimology, School of Policy and Global Affairs
Areas of expertise: Cyberbullying Across the Educational Lifespan and Victimisation Processes, Online harms and Violence, Image Based Abuse
Raj leads on the technical aspects and Carrie leads on the non-technical, legal and behavioural science aspects of its research.
Members
COSPI’s diverse membership from all schools fosters support and facilitates interdisciplinary collaboration opportunities for colleagues across City to solve wider real-world societal, governmental and industrial problems.
Internal active participants
Dan Mercea
Professor of Digital and Social Change, SPGA
Areas of expertise: Digital activism, social learning and implications of AI usage for political participation, environmental and disruptive communication on social media
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Michael Saker
Senior Lecturer in Digital Sociology and Societal change, SPGA
Areas of expertise: The impact of mobile and locative technologies, alongside virtual and augmented reality, in daily life
Elinor Carmi
Senior Lecturer in Data Politics and Social Justice, SPGA
Areas of expertise: Digital rights, digital democracy, Spam, disinformation
Gemma Birkett
Reader in Criminology, SPGA
Areas of expertise: Court digitisation agenda, algorithmic justice, virtual hearings, online automated pleading
Stephanie Baker
Reader in Sociology, SPGA
Areas of expertise: Trust, technology, influencers, health mis/disinformation in the digital age.
Dr Sujit Biswas
Lecturer in Cybersecurity and FinTech, SST
Areas of expertise: Blockchain, FinTech, Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Federated Machine Learning.
Ilir Gashi
Reader, SST
Areas of expertise: Anti-virus products, botnets, malware, intrusion detection systems, web crawling detection
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Nikos Komninos
Senior Lecturer, SST
Areas of expertise: Developing mathematical techniques for information systems protection, machine learning, intrusion detection
Michal Krol
Senior Lecturer, SST
Areas of expertise: Privacy, identity, blockchain, distributed systems, decentralised systems
Iasonas Triantis
Senior Lecturer, SST
Areas of expertise: Bio signals, biometrics, hardware design, wearables
David Stuples
Professor of Cyber Warfare, SST
Areas of expertise: Cyberwarfare, cryptography, intelligence gathering
Pranava Madhyastha
Lecturer in Machine Learning, SST
Areas of expertise: Natural language processing, multimodal machine learning, foundations of machine learning
Andrea Baronchelli
Professor of Complexity Science, SST
Areas of expertise: Complex networks, data science and network science
Belen Barros Pena
Lecturer in HCI, SST
Areas of expertise: Human-centred design, participatory design, usable security, community-centric security
Katy Tapper
Reader in Psychology, School of Health and Medical Sciences
Areas of expertise: Behaviour psychology
Feng Li
Professor of Information Management, Bayes Business School
Areas of expertise: Digital Game, Digital Economy, AI, organisational transformation
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Aneesh Banerjee
Reader in Management, Bayes Business School
Areas of expertise: High-tech, fintech, creative industries, innovation in technology
Mohan Sodhi
Professor of Supply Chain, Bayes Business School
Areas of expertise: Supply chain risk, cyber risk on global supply chain
Russell Gerrard
Associate Professor of Statistics, Bayes Business School
Areas of expertise: Optimal premium in insurance, model/uncertainty modelling
Richard Payne
Professor of Finance, Bayes Business School
Areas of expertise: Investment banking, financial econometrics, fintech
Stefan Haefliger
Professor of Strategic Management and Innovation, Bayes Business School
Areas of expertise: IT regulation
Stefania Zerbinati
Reader in Entrepreneurship, Bayes Business School
Areas of expertise: Entrepreneurship
Richard Ashcroft
Professor of Bio ethics, The City Law School
Areas of expertise: Ethics
Elaine Fahey
Professor of Law, The City Law School
Areas of expertise: Cybercrime, cybersecurity, EU external relations law
Thomas Bennett
Senior Lecturer, The City Law School
Areas of expertise: Privacy law, defamation law, regulation of online media, deepfakes
David Townend
Professor, The City Law School
Areas of expertise: Personal data protection, privacy and confidentiality, property in data.
Sona Mehta
Senior Lecturer, The City Law School
Areas of expertise: Data protection, privacy
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