Biography
Andrew Martin is Professor of Systems Security at the University of Oxford. He serves as Director of the Professional Master’s Programme within the Department of Computer Science, and leads the national CRANE NetworkPlus for cyber security research. He is also a Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford, and a member of the Executive and Editorial Board of CyBOK.
Over the past two decades, Prof Martin has played a leading role in many aspects of security innovation in the University’s cyber security teaching and research. His contributions include founding the MSc in Software and Systems Security and establishing the Centre for Doctoral Training in Cyber Security with the wider Cyber Security Oxford network and the NCSC-EPSRC Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research.
His research focuses on hardware-software co-design for security with an emphasis on developing applications for trusted computing and trusted execution environments in large-scale distributed systems, particularly cloud computing, mobile devices, and the internet of things (IoT). He has published extensively in this area, hosting several related international events in Oxford and delivering talks all over the world.
Andrew completed his doctoral thesis in the early 1990s on ‘Machine-Assisted Theorem Proving for Software Engineering’. He subsequently worked as a Research Fellow at the Software Verification Research Centre at the University of Queensland, Australia. After returning to the UK, he was a lecturer at the University of Southampton before taking up his current position at Oxford in 1999.