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Latest News

2025-09-02: Ibtihal's paper on the use of and concerns about authentication technologies among British university staff and students is accepted as late breaking work to BCS HCI 2025. ePrint to follow soon.

2025-08-19: Najla has passed her viva today! Congratulations to her and Helen Petrie, her main supervisor, with both of whom I had the pleasure to work. See:  Najla's Publications

2025-06-23: Kit's paper proposing the first subexponential quantum algorithm for the semidirect discrete logarithm problem published at PQCrypto 2024 receives the best 2024 PhD student paper award at the department. See:  ePrint,  DoI,  Slides,  Video

Older:  News archive

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Selected Recent Publications

[BAS25] Hina Binte Haq, Syed Taha Ali and Siamak F. Shahandashti. "Cuckoo's Nest: An Ultra-Lightweight DoS-Resilient Bitcoin Mempool". ICBC 2025 (to appear).
 ePrint |  DoI |  Code |  Dataset |  Slides

[CBS24] Ali Cherry, Konstantinos Barmpis and Siamak F. Shahandashti. "The Emperor is Now Clothed: A Secure Governance Framework for Web User Authentication through Password Managers". ICICS 2024, LNCS 15057: 233–252, Springer, 2024.
 ePrint |  DoI |  Code |  BibTeX

[BKPS24] Christopher Battarbee, Delaram Kahrobaei, Ludovic Perret, and Siamak F. Shahandashti. "A Subexponential Quantum Algorithm for the Semdirect Discrete Logarithm Problem". PQCrypto 2024, LNCS 14771: 202–226, 2024.
 ePrint |  DoI |  Slides |  Video |  BibTeX

 Full Publication List

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Selected Funded Projects (current)

PRIME: Protecting Minority Ethnic Communities Online
PHAWM: Participatory Harm Auditing Workbenches and Methodologies

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Selected Academic Service

Program Committee (current):

University Service (current):
 Co-Chair, Physical Sciences Ethics Committee
 Member, Information Security Board
 Member, Academic Ethics Compliance Committee

Departmental Service (selected, current):
 Lead, Cyber Security and Privacy Research Group
 Deputy Chair, Graduate School Board
 Programme Lead, MSc Cyber Security

 Full Academic Service List

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Student Supervision

Current Research Students:
Charles Dodd (with  Pooya Farshim)
Najla Aldaraani (with  Helen Petrie)
Ibtihal Alotaibi (with  Helen Petrie)

 Full Student Supervision List (and Information for Prospective Students)

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Teaching

Current Module: Cryptography Theory and Practice (  CTAP-H /  CTAP-M )

 Full Teaching List

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