I am the Professor of Human-Centred Systems at the Department of Computer Science at The University of Oxford, alongside being an Official Fellow of Kellogg College. In my industrial capacity, I am the Chief Scientific Advisor at Brave and the Co-Founder of Mulini.
Job Openings
I am accepting new DPhil students at Oxford to start from Autumn 2027. Please see the DPhil in Computer Science pages on deadlines and application procedures. There are several scholarships and sources of funding available, including Departmental Scholarships, University’s Graduate Funding, Colleges’ own Scholarships, Oxford-Max-Planck Doctoral Programme, EIT Scholarships, China Oxford Scholarship Fund, The Rhodes Scholarships for Hong Kong, Clarendon Fund, and many more options.
News:
- Sep 2026: Joined IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy 2027 TPC.
- Aug 2026: Joined MLSys 2027, AAAI 2027 and ICLR 2027 TPC.
- Jul 2026: Presented AgenTEE at Remote Attestation Challenges for AI Agents session at IETF 126.
- Jul 2026: Joined ACM Mobicom 2027 TPC.
- Jul 2026: Joined ACM HotNets 2026 TPC.
- Jul 2026: Deliverd IFIP TMA 2026 Keynote on private and attestable telemtry in large-scale systems.
- Apr 2026: Joined NDSS Symposium 2027 TPC.
Extended Biography
- Nov 2017 - Sep 2026, Professor of Human-Centred Systems at the Department of Computing at Imperial College London
- Aug 2018 - Aug 2021, Visiting Professor, Brave Software
- July 2019 - Aug 2019: Visitor, Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) Institute of Computer Science
- Oct 2011 - Oct 2017: Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Digital Media, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London
- May 2014 - Dec 2015: Research Scientist, Qatar Computing Research Institute
- Summers 2012 & 2013: Visiting researcher, AT&T Research, Floreham Park (cycle route)
- Jan 2010 - Sep 2011, postdoctoral researcher, Royal Veterinary College/University of Cambridge, CHDI Project
- Jan 2009 - Dec 2009, Post-doctoral researcher, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems,Germany
- Sep 2009 - Nov 2010, Visiting researcher, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
- Nov 2008 - Dec 2008, Research associate, CISG Group, University College London
- July 2007 - Nov 2008, Collaborating with AT&T Research , Network Simulation and Emulation Tools Consultant
- March 2008 - May 2008, Visiting researcher, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Adelaide
- Winter 2005, Intel Research Cambridge, Research Scientist, CoMo Project
- Summer 2003, UCL EE/BT Research, Sensor Networks Operating System for Senceive
- Summer 2002 and 2001, Sony Europe, Embedded Systems Hardware Group, ARM Compliancy Test-Harness
I studied for my PhD between Oct 2004-Oct 2008, investigating the Topological Characteristics of IP Networks, which I successfully defended on 31st October 2008. My examiners were George Pavlou and Christos Gkantsidis. I carried out my thesis research jointly between two great labs, the NetOS Group, Computer Laboratory, Cambridge University, and Networks and Services Research Laboratory Group, UCL (supervised by: Miguel Rio, Andrew Moore , Richard Mortier)
I was also a scholar at London Business School, under the UCL CSEL sponsorship programme, attending MBA electives.
My MPhil (transfer) Thesis investigated Network Traffic Inference Using Sampled Statistics [pdf].
In 2004 I completed the MSc in Telecommunication Engineering with distinction. I was sponsored by EPSRC, Project: kOS “kind of Operating System” (report). This work had contributions to technology spin-out Senceive.
Between 1999-2003 I studied for the BEng (Hons) Electronic & Electrical Engineering at UCL. My 2nd & final year were sponsored by Sony Europe. For my final year project I built a stand-alone RDS Encoder (report).
Before that, I studied for A-Levels at William Morris Academy.
MISC: My Erdos Number is 3: Hamed Haddadi > Andrew G. Thomason -> Fan Chung -> Paul Erdos