Institute Staff
Directors and Operations
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Professor Deeph Chana
Biography
Professor Deeph Chana is Co-Director of the Institute for Security Science and Technology, Co-Director of the Centre for Financial Technology, and Professor of Practice in Imperial Business School. He is currently Chair of NATO's Advisory Group on Emerging and Disruptive Technologies.
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Alex Gibbs
Biography
Alex manages the operational services across research, internal and external engagement and the education portfolio for the Institute. Alex joined Imperial in 2016 working for the Advancement division and then Energy Futures Lab, another of Imperial's global challenge institutes.
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Zarine Khurshid
Biography
Zarine has been with the ISST since 2019 and has been instrumental in establishing the Innovation Ecosystem, a triple helix collective of industry, government, and academic partners. Zarine joined Imperial in 2012 and has extensive experience in staff development, research grants management and strategic projects.
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Andreea Gavrilă
Biography
Andreea has been with the Institute since 2020, supporting the core team from an operational standpoint across education, research, and innovation. She is also working closely with the MSc Course Co-Directors in planning the annual strategy for the programme and ensuring its smooth delivery.
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Jack Cooper
Biography
Jack leads on communications and events, working with industry, government, and academic partners to promote the work of the Institute and its joint ventures. One such venture is The Zero Pressure Podcast, conceived of by Saab and ISST. He joined the ISST in 2021, having spent several years in biomedical research.
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Samantha Lee
Biography
Samantha joined ISST in 2021, providing administrative support on all MSc-related activities. She has previous experience in project and stakeholder management, and is currently pursuing a master's degree with Imperial College in Chemical Engineering.
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Furrah Hussain
Biography
Furrah joined the Research Institute in Trustworthy Inter-connected Cyber-Physical Systems (RITICS) hosted within the ISST in August 2021. She formed part of the first cohort of the ISST's MSc programme in Security & Resilience, graduating in 2020.
Senior Security Science Fellow
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Professor Washington Yotto Ochieng
Personal details
Professor Washington Yotto Ochieng Head of Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringBiography
Prof. Ochieng is Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Chair in Positioning and Navigation Systems at Imperial College London.
Security Science Fellows
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Professor PJ Beaghton
Biography
PJ is a Professor of Practice in Computing and Security Science Fellow at the Institute. His work at ISST focuses on security of financial systems (FinSec). He previously managed a global statistical arbitrage hedge fund for 12 years and before that was a Managing Director and senior quant trader at Salomon Brothers.
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Dr Saira Ghafur
Biography
Saira is the Digital Health Lead at the Institute of Global Health Innovation, Security Science Fellow at ISST, and honorary consultant in respiratory medicine at St Mary’s Hospital. Saira has spearheaded Imperial College London's collaboration for healthcare cybersecurity.
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Dr Hamed Haddadi
Biography
Hamed is a Reader in Human-Centred Systems and Director of Postgraduate Studies at the Dyson School of Design Engineering at The Faculty of Engineering. He leads the Systems and Algorithms Laboratory, and is an Academic Fellow of the Data Science Institute.
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Professor Christopher Hankin
Biography
Chris is a Security Science Fellow of the Institute for Security Science and Technology, where he was Co-Director until 2019. He was Deputy Principal of the Faculty of Engineering from September 2006 until October 2008. His research is in cyber security, data analytics and semantics-based program analysis.
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Dr John Hassard
Biography
John is Reader in Physics and Security Science Fellow at the Institute. His research interests are varied with particular interest in heavy quark decays. John has started companies in a range of areas, including renewable energy, air pollution analysis and biotechnology.
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Professor Emil Lupu
Biography
Emil leads the Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research at Imperial College London and is the Deputy Director of the PETRAS IoT Security Research Hub. He serves a Security Science Fellow with the Institute for Security Science and Technology, and heads the Resilient Information Systems Security Group.
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Dr William G Proud
Biography
Bill is Reader in Shock Physics at the Department of Physics, and a Security Science Fellow at the Institute. His main research interest is into high strain rate properties of a wide range of materials, both inert and energetic. Bill is the academic course director for the MSc Security and Resilience course.
Other staff
Visiting and Honorary Fellows
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Honorary Principal Research Fellow |
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Dr Mark Lavelle Honorary Senior Research Fellow |
Distinguished Research Fellow |
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Sir Keith O'Nions |
Distinguished Research Fellow |
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Dr Margaret Wilson
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Dr Joe Watson Honorary Principal Research Fellow |
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Research Associate |
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Research Staff
Research Associate
Research Associate
Associate Teaching Fellow, Institute for Security Science and Technology
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Chotiwat Jantarakasem
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Tony Maher
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Xiangmin Yang
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
