Doctoral Student in Computer Science, working on ways to improve the situational awareness of cyber security analysts by observing and analysing their collaboration and coordination at work (completed in 2018). Jan is a User Experience researcher.
Jon Askonas works on the connections between the republican tradition, technology, and national security. He completed his DPhil in 2019 and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics at the Catholic University of America.
Tulio did his DPhil looking at technical trust and security at the Department of Computer Science, working with Ian Brown and Andrew Martin (completed 2014).
Florian focuses on the implications of cyber enabled national and transnational non-state actors to international security. He is interested in politics, intelligence, and the role of non-state actors in cyber security.
Yang did his DPhil in the Department of Computer Science, working with Andrew Simpson on security and privacy problems and, in particular, the privacy issues on mobile devices (completed 2018).
David is a student at the CDT. His personal website (with more information on his work) is http://davidmellor.info/.
“Integrating social, philosophical, and technical approaches, my work aims to enhance and enrich conventional understandings and practices of cybersecurity by locating them within a broader problem space inherent in contemporary technological globalization and hyper-industrialization. For me, cybersecurity is about our inhabitation of spaces of all different scales that are structured, governed, and constantly re-tooled by machine technologies and their accumulated and re-appropriated informational outputs – the global membranes of connection and communication. Framing cyber and its securities as a distinctly transnational and increasingly ubiquitous series of phenomena, my research is about the pressing need to rethink how social, political, and ecological relations are comprised and coordinated for the sake of future cohesion and stability. This raises unprecedented and entwined governance, engineering, and ethical challenges across overlapping ecologies of individuals, communities, and the environment.
My main research interests are about how management and sustainability are achieved through this rapidly emerging reality of co-fragility. In particular, I am concerned with our understanding of how the future is created through the design politics of the contemporary, this being the landscape of policy, action and sensibility that we must navigate.
I work around developing a collective of interwoven concepts, drawing on a range of current events, policies, social processes, technical objects and systems, and cultural and political imaginaries. These concepts are:
Cyber – encapsulating digital technologies, their distinctive emergence, characteristics, and effects. Security – comprising the practices of human collectives that create precarious habitats which permit them to survive and thrive
Aesthetics – echoing the original aisthesis, this concerns the sensibilities and psycho-politics that hold collectives together
Anthropotechnics – the forging of people through their imbrications with technologies and practices of living
Technosphere – the planetary dimension of technology that is animated and directed by human desires but which is increasingly steered by artificial agents.”
Andrew is a DPhil student looking at trustworthy remote entities, analysing privacy properties, and future home networks and services. He works with Ian Brown and Andrew Martin.
Andelka was a DPhil student in the Law faculty (passed her viva in October 2015), examining legal regulation governing the direct-to-consumer genetic testing industry with a particular focus on the rights of individuals in their genomic sequence information in this context. She is now a Senior Lecturer at Te Piringa Faculty of Law and a Research Associate with the University of Oxford’s Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies (HeLEX).
Ivo is a Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science, looking at software and systems security, specialising in side-channel leakage and biometrics. He completed his DPhil in 2019.
Alex finished in 2017. While at Oxford, he worked on Steganography, particularly hiding information in tweets, working with Phil Blunsom, Andrew Ker and Gavin Lowe.
Ben was a DPhil student at OII, looking at the research ethics for projects involving unsuspecting Internet users, and previously worked in EU politics as well as practicing as a lawyer. After his DPhil, he worked as a researcher at OII, and later Princeton, and at last check he is working as a research scientist at Google AI in California.
