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Nominated for Most Outstanding Use of the Learning Environment and Most Outstanding Learning Experience.

Joined TrustAI as an advisor and AI expert.

Awarded the HEA Fellowship (FHEA).

Delivered a guest talk to provide an overview of my career path to the Ignite Programme at Cardiff University.

Delivered a guest talk titled “Shining Light on Internet-Based Crimes Against Children” to a nursing cohort at Cardiff University, School of Medicine.

Nominee for the Tech for Good Awards at the Data Gals Awards.

Introducing 3 new PhD students, Jake Samuels, Dylan Hampton, and Zain Hankin to the team. Their PhDs are funded by the Cyber Innovation Hub and their research focuses around the use of LLMs in cybersecurity and Industrial Control System security.

Main author of our paper The Evolution of Digital Security by Design using Temporal Network Analysis published in MDPI Informatics journal.

Acted as Student Complaints Officer for Cardiff University’s School of Computer Science and Informatics).

Acted as Data Science Mentor for The Data Gals.

Main author of our paper Uncovering Key Factors That Drive the Impressions of Online Emerging Technology Narratives published in MDPI Information’s section Information Processes.

Acted as an internal examiner for a PhD viva at Cardiff University.

Co-author of our paper Investigating Radio Frequency Vulnerabilities in the Internet of Things (IoT) published in MDPI IoT Journal.

Co-author of our paper Mapping Automated Cyber Attack Intelligence to Context-based Impact on System-level Goals published in MDPI Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy’s special issue Data Protection and Privacy.

Co-organised and designed a Capture the Flag competition for attendees at Yucatan i6’s cybersecurity event.

Our paper Topic Modelling; Going Beyond Token Outputs, published in MDPI Big Data and Cognitive Computing’s special issue Advances in Natural Language Processing and Text Mining, was chosen as the journal’s front cover.

Co-author of our paper Severity-oriented Multiclass Drone Flight Logs Anomaly Detection published in IEEE Access.

Main author of our paper Topic Modelling; Going Beyond Token Outputs published in MDPI Big Data and Cognitive Computing’s special issue Advances in Natural Language Processing and Text Mining.

Main author of our paper A Scalable and Automated Framework for Tracking the likely Adoption of Emerging Technologies published in MDPI Information’s section Information Processes.

Our paper Comparing Hierarchical Approaches to Enhance Supervised Emotive Text Classification, published in MDPI Big Data and Cognitive Computing’s special issue Advances in Natural Language Processing and Text Mining, was chosen as the journal’s front cover.

Main author of our paper Comparing Hierarchical Approaches to Enhance Supervised Emotive Text Classification published in MDPI Big Data and Cognitive Computing’s special issue Advances in Natural Language Processing and Text Mining.

Main author of our paper Leveraging Gamification and Game-based Learning in Cybersecurity Education - Engaging and Inspiring Non-Cyber Students published in the Journal of The Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education.

Principle-investigator of a Cardiff University On-campus Summer Internship - Decoding Hate; Analysing Features that Amplify Online Hate Speech. Worth £3,000.

Guest Editor of the MDPI Navigating AI Challenges in Cybersecurity - Strategies for Industrial and IoT Protection Journal.

Joined Cardiff University’s School of Computer Science and Informatics as a Lecturer in Cybersecurity.

Co-author of a paper awarded the Dr K W Wong Annual Award for Best Paper 2023, sponsored by the Journal of Information Security and Applications and Elsevier.

Co-author of a paper recognised by Elsevier as a top Open Access contributor. The article was linked to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals; to build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialisation, and foster innovation.

Co-organised and designed a Capture the Flag competition for students at Cardiff University’s School of Computer Science & Informatics. Winners had the chance to be nominated for the NCSC’s CyberFirst - a gateway to mentorship, placements, and a community dedicated to securing our digital future.

Co-organised a Capture the Flag competition for students at Cardiff University’s School of Computer Science & Informatics in collaboration with Airbus.

Presented a workshop talk on how text mining techniques can be used to track technology adoption.

Co-organised and designed a Capture the Flag competition for attendees at Yucatan i6’s cybersecurity event.

Visited Montreal University, Canada to form research collaborations and networks.

Visited Ottawa University, Canada to form research collaborations and networks.

Co-investigator on a National Highways funded project titled - Evaluating and Improving the Robustness of National Highways’ AI-based Systems. Worth £120,000.

Principle-investigator on a Cardiff University funded project titled - Know the Adversary - Extracting the Context, Action, and Purpose of an Adversary’s Actions from Free Text. Worth £5,000.

Principle-investigator of a Cardiff University On-campus Summer Internship in collaboration with Airbus titled - Threat Intelligent Report Similarity using Natural Language Processing. Worth £3,000.

Co-investigator of a Cardiff University On-campus Summer Internship in collaboration with Copper Horse Ltd titled - Automotive Cyber Security Investigation and Research. Worth £3,000.

Co-investigator of a Cardiff University On-campus Summer Internship in collaboration with CyberSmart titled - Exploring the Effectiveness of Incentives for Improving Cyber Security Behaviours in Organisations. Worth £3,000.

Co-organised and designed an Easter themed Capture the Flag competition for attendees from UTM University, Mexico and Cardiff University.

Co-organised and designed a Data Science X Cybersecurity Hackathon for attendees from the Graduate Programme Wales and Cardiff University.

Co-organised a Capture the Flag competition for attendees from ITS University, Indonesia and Cardiff University.

Co-organised and designed a Christmas themed Capture the Flag competition for attendees from Cardiff University.

Presented a talk in the internal cybersecurity research seminar series titled - How to write an academic paper.

Developed and maintain Cardiff University’s Cybersecurity Event Series - a resource to keep up to date with the latest cybersecurity events at Cardiff University.

Co-investigator of a Cardiff University and the University of Waikato Strategic International Partnership Collaborative Seed Fund - Factors that Drive Phishing Attacks. Worth £10,000.

Visited Waikato University, New Zealand to form research collaborations and networks.

Joined the Discribe research project as a Research Associate.

Co-author of our paper “Hardening machine learning denial of service (DoS) defences against adversarial machine attacks in IoT smart home networks” published in the Computers & Security journal.

A member of the editorial board of the new “Social Data Science - Using Social Networks Data for Social Impact” journal.

Co-author of our paper “Adversarial attacks on machine learning cybersecurity defences in Industrial Control Systems” published in the Journal of Information Security and Applications.

Co-author of our paper “A three-tiered intrusion detection system for industrial control systems” published in the Journal of Cybersecurity.

Visited Indraprastha’s Institute of Information Technology, India to form research collaborations and networks.

Co-author of our paper “A Supervised Intrusion Detection System for Smart Home IoT Devices” published in the IEEE Internet of Things Journal.

Author of our paper “Comparing the Utility of Different Classification Schemes for Emotive Language Analysis” published in Springer’s Journal of Classification.

Joined the Data Innovation Accelerator research project as a Research Data Scientist.