(Better strategy 1, 2 & 3)

For project details, please visit the Systems and Algorithms Laboratory (SysAL) pages.

Current Projects and Grants

• EPSRC Databox: Privacy-Aware Infrastructure for Managing Personal Data (EP/N028260/1 £1,238,585 starting October 2016)
• Microsoft Azure Research Award 2017-2018 (CRM:0740917)
• Human-Data Interaction, Legibility, Agency, Negotiability: EPSRC Network Plus grant (EP/R045178/1, £1,040,837 starting September 2018)
• EPSRC DADA: Defence Against Dark Artefacts (EP/R03351X/1, £1,011,787 starting September 2018)

Current Research Staff

• Kleomenis Katevas (Postdoctoral Research Associate on the Databox Project) .

Current Research Students

• Fan Mo (funded by Li-xin Tang Overseas Scholarship).

• Yuting Zhan (funded by CSC Imperial Scholarship).

• Ali Shahin Shamsabadi (Privacy-preserving Deep Learning, funded by QMUL CIS Scholarship).

• Mohammad Malekzadeh (Privacy-preserving personal data analytics on the Databox Project, funded by QMUL Life Science Initiative).

• Katrin Hänsel (Wearable devices and mHealth, co-advised with Akram Alomainy, funded by QMUL CIS Scholarship).

I am interested in hearing from potential PhD students in my areas of research interests. If you have interesting ideas and wish to discuss funding opportunities for next year, please send me an email (no attachments please!)

Past Projects/Grants

• EPSRC IoT research-in-the-wild: Connected Seeds and Sensors (EP/L023504/1 £ 321,053 October 2015- March 2017)

• Microsoft Azure for Research Award 2017 CRM:0518581 (co-PI, $20k)

• EPSRC IT as a Utility Network+ industrial secondment at AT&T Research (PI, £6k)

• Research into value of privacy and monetization of information (co-PI, EPSRC Pump-Priming £50k) Media coverage: ZDNet , StudentTIMES , AndroidLife , Mashable

• Privacy in Mobile Advertising

• UK-US Collaboration Grant (PI, Foreign Office, £2k)

• RVC Public Engagement Grant (co-PI, RVC, £2k)

• CHDI Huntington Disease (postdoc)

• The Twitter Project at MPI-SWS (postdoc)

• Research on Privacy in Internet Advertising (postdoc)

• Measurement at All Scales in Time and Space (PhD student, EPSRC MASTS)

• Self-Organising Collegiate Sensor Networks (MSc student, DTI SECOAS Project)

Past Visitors/Staff/Students

Dr Kleomenis Katevas (PhD: Analysing and influencing crowd behaviors using mobile sensing, co-advised with Laurissa Tokarchuk, funded by DSTL, graduated August 2018).

Yousef Amar (Personal Data Analytics on the Databox Project, funded by QMUL CIS Scholarship).

Panagiotis Papadopoulos (Visiting PhD student, ICS-FORTH)

Dr Sandra Servia (Postdoctoral Research Associate on the Databox project)

Dr Sara Heitlinger (Postdoctoral Research Associate on the Connected Seeds and Sensors project, 2015-2017)

Dr Marjan Falahrastegar (Web Tracking Ecosystem, PhD student at QMUL EECS school, co-advised with Steve Uhlig and Richard Mortier, graduated December 2016)

Ms Nanda Khaorapapong (Research Assistant on the Connected Seeds and Sensors project, 2016)

Dr Kuan Hon (Regulatory aspects of data privacy in Cloud Computing, at QUML CCLS, co-advised with Chris Reed, Graduated 2015, now a legal consultant with Microsoft Research)

Marjan Falahrastegar (2012, RA on Privacy Value, then PhD student at QMUL)

Dr Claudiu Perta (March-June 2014, visiting student from Sapienza Università di Roma, now at Google London)