Awais Rashid

Awais Rashid is Professor of Cyber Security at the University of Bristol, the editor-in-chief of CyBOK, and Co-Founder and Co-Director of the CyBOK Community Interest Company. His research focuses on security of cyber-physical systems (in particular, critical national infrastructure), software security, and usable security and privacy. He has led, and continues to lead, a number of research programmes in these topics.

He is Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Cyber Security at University of Bristol, Director of the National Research Centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence Online (REPHRAIN) and leads the EPSRC-funded Programme SCULI: Securing Convergent Ultra-Large Scale Infrastructures.

Awais has also led projects as part of the PETRAS National Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security of Internet of Things, the Research Institute on Sociotechnical Cyber Security (RISCS) the Research Institute on Trustworthy Interconnected Cyber-Physical Systems (RITICS), and the Digital Security by Design Hub+ (Discribe). He serves as advisory board member to national and international programmes and funding bodies, and previously served as a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute.

My research spans cyber security and software engineering. I focus on novel software modularity techniques that underpin software that is adaptable, evolvable and resilient in the face of changes and the volatile nature of user requirements and behaviours in the modern digital world. This naturally ties in with my cyber security research which focuses on developing tools and techniques that are adaptable to the constantly changing threat patterns utilised by criminals online. I am particularly interested in security of cyber-physical systems, such as, industrial control systems and Internet of Things. I am also a keen researcher of adversarial and non-adversarial behaviours pertaining to cyber security.