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A highly motivated, ambitious, and intellectually driven individual who strives to improve in all aspects of my personal, career and academic endeavours.

Graduating in Business Information Systems and studying a PhD in Cybersecurity has taught me transferable skills which have made an independent thinker as well as a confident, curious, and passionate lifelong students.

A diversified, analytical, investigative mindset has always been a strong skill of mine with a strong focus on long term career development and Education. 

 

Research interests

Cybersecurity & Well-being 

Healthcare: Computational Medicine, machine learning, and  the use of mobile devices in medicine, assisting technologies such as:  design and deployment of enabling technology to be accessible to broader groups in society.

AI, VR, ML, IoT (Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, Machine Learning, and Internet of Things). 

Computational Social Sciences 

Data Management Systems 

Human Computer Interactions (HCI) 

Psychology & Criminology

E-Crime through social media; fake social media profiles using stolen or fabricated identities, to impersonate individuals or organizations. 

Interested in Exploring: Individuals lying about their identities online by using fake usernames, to create a new persona to manipulate, bully, or defraud unsuspecting people and understanding the psychological reasoning behind this. 

Others Include: 

  • Cyber Fraud - including phishing, spear phishing, vishing and whaling  
  • Malware Attacks - including viruses, worms, trojans, spyware, rootkits, etc ransomware attacks drive-by downloads
  • Hacking - including distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS), and keylogging. 
  • Password Decryption
  • Out-of-date, Unpatched Software

Apart from my resarch interests in e-crime,  i am interested in exploring the involvement of policing and how they can help the victims and sentencing of cyber criminals. 

Programming Languages & Formal Methods: study of programming languages, language theory, program analysis, quantitative reasoning about software systems. 

Network & Systems 

Research interests (continued)

Currently Researching for PhD Thesis: 
 
Research Title: Cybersecurity Attacks and Employee Wellbeing Across Organizations. 
 
My research aims to understand the impact of cybersecurity threats on the higher education sector in the UK. 
I am researching well-being of academics across the university sector, who may have been a target of cyber threats and incidents. Wether they have been targeted directly through email compromise, or a university which has been targeted directly impacting all services, and how this imapcts their emotional well-being looking into; burnout, anxeity and stress. 
 
Well-being Research: 
  1. Digital well-being & Employee Well-being 
  2. Cyber Resilience
  3. Covid – 19 Working from Home
  4. Burnout in Higher Education Sector & Cybersecurity 
Cybersecurity Research: 
  1. Types of threats
  2. Human Error 
  3. Training
  4. Responding to Cyber Incidents & Plan Management 
Factors Impacting HE Sector: 
  1. Subcontractors and HE Relationship 
  2. Financial Factors in HE
  3. Protecting Sensitive Data 
  4. Employee Compliance
  5. Lack of Communitcation and Support
  6. Legacy Systems
  7. Increased Endpoints and Vulnerable platforms 
Methodology 
 
A Qualitative research methodology has been adopted for the purpose of this research where semi-strctured interviews will be conducted with academics across the higher education in the UK. 
 
Interviews will be conducted with academics, who wish to speak about their experiences. If you have experienced a cyber - incident or have been impacted by one, please do get in touch for my research study.
 
I am interviewing academics from universities who have been reported in the news for such incidents and contacting academics from different faculty & schools. If you are interested in taking part please email me. My email address is: [email protected] 

Educational background

Currently studying a MPhil & PhD in Cybersecurity and open to further consultancy related activities. 

PhD Cybersecurity | Royal Holloway University of London | 2022 - 2026 - Present 

MSc Business Information Systems | Royal Holloway University of London | 2019 - 2020

BSc Hons Business Information Systems | University of Westminster | 2016 - 2019 

Affiliations

Member of UKAIS | UK Academy for Information Systems

DOS Research Group |  Digital Organisation and Society

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 4 - Quality Education