About Me

I am a Lecturer (~Assistant Professor) at the School of Computer Science and Informatics at Cardiff University. My work focuses on the development of novel approaches towards automated cyber defence. In particular, my interest is on how to apply text mining and machine learning techniques in defence methodologies.

Previously, I was a Research Associate at Cardiff University working for the Discribe Hub and Data Innovation Accelerator projects.

🚨 Looking for PhD Students! - I am interested in supervising funded or self-funded PhD students in projects involving Large Language Model (LLM) security. Please check the relevant page in FindAPhD for more information and do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.

Interests
  • Natural Language Processing/Text Mining/Information Retrieval
  • Machine Learning/Adversarial Machine Learning
  • Intrusion Detection
Education

  • PhD in Computer Science, 2017

    Cardiff University

  • BSc Information Systems, 2013

    Cardiff University

News

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EPSRC Peer Review College
Member
EPSRC Peer Review College Feb 2026
Welcomed as a member at EPSRC Peer Review College.
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
New Publication
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems Oct 2025
Co-author of our paper The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Shaping Intelligent Motorways - Opportunities, Challenges, and Real-World Implementations published in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Wales Stem Awards
Winner
Wales Stem Awards Oct 2025
TrustAI - winner of the STEM reearch project of the year at the Wales STEM Awards 2025.
Cardiff University
PhD Viva - Internal Examiner
Cardiff University Oct 2025
Acted as an internal examiner for a PhD viva at Cardiff University.

Recent Publications

Eirini Anthi, Lowri Williams, Hamza Afzal, Bilal Brar, Joydip Bhowmick, Kabir Gujral, Emyr Thomas
Oct 29, 2025
The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Shaping Intelligent Motorways: Opportunities, Challenges, and Real-World Implementations

This paper is a review on how AI is integrated into intelligent transportation systems.

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Lowri Williams, Pete Burnap
Jun 22, 2025
The Emotional Landscape of Technological Innovation: a Case Study of ChatGPT's Launch

This paper overcomes this limitation by presenting a comprehensive analysis for investigating the emotional landscape surrounding technology adoption by using the launch of ChatGPT as a case study.

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Swardiantara Silalahi, Tohari Ahmad, Hudan Studiawan, Eirini Anthi, Lowri Williams
Jun 19, 2025
Interpretable Ordinal-aware with Contrastive-enhanced Anomaly Severity Detection on UAV Flight Log Messages

This study proposes DroneLog, an interpretable framework for detecting anomalies and the severity levels on drone flight logs, using a multitask learning approach in a unified pipeline. Complying with the multitask learning nature, two target label representations are designed to leverage the shared low-level common features of the input messages over various severity levels.

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Contact

  • WilliamsL10@cardiff.ac.uk
  • School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University, Abacws, Senghennydd Road, Cardiff, CF24 4AG,