Postdoc / RAs
  • Andras Bodrogai - Research Software Engineer Funded by the FCDO.
  • Dr Md Shafiqul Islam - Postdoctoral Researcher Funded by the PETRAS and the FCDO.
  • Former member: Dr Shaun MacDonalnd - Postdoctoral Researcher was funded by the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and PETRAS Now Postdoc in James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow.
  • Former member: Dr Karola Marky - Postdoctoral Researcher was funded by the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Now Associate Professor at Ruhr University Bochum.
  • Former member: Dr Pejman Saeghe - Postdoctoral Researcher was funded by REPHRAIN. Now Assistant Professor (Lecturer) at University of Strathclyde.
  • Former member: Dr Tania Wallis - Postdoctoral Researcher was funded by the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
  • Former member: Dr Maheshya Weerasinghe - Postdoctoral Researcher was funded by REPHRAIN. Now Assistant Professor at University of Primorska.
  • Former member: Dr Martina Ruocco - Postdoctoral Researcher was funded by Meta. Now Postdoc at University of Manchester.
PhD Supervision
  • Habiba Farzand Understanding and Mitigating Shoulder Surfing Partially funded by an Excellence Bursary from the University of Glasgow's College of Science and Engineering.
  • Robin Bertin Studying Social Drones in Virtual Reality Funded by the SOCIAL AI CDT. Co-supervised with Emily Cross.
  • Melvin Abraham Understanding and Mitigating threats to Security and Privacy in Virtual Reality. Funded by an EPSRC Doctoral Training Studentship. Co-supervised with Mark McGill.
  • Noora Alsakar Understanding and communicating privacy issues in eye tracking data. Funded by the Saudi Government. Co-supervised with Simone Stumpf.
  • Cristina Fiani Child Safety in Social Virtual Reailty. Funded by Facebook Reality Labs and the SOCIAL AI CDT. Co-supervised with Mark McGill. Omar Namnakani Gaze-based Interaction on Mobile Devices. Funded by the Saudi Government.
  • Graduated: Dr Norah Alotaibi Investigating the Privacy Risks of Thermal Imaging (Download thesis) Funded by the Saudi Government.
  • Graduated: Dr Florian Mathis Moving usable security research out of the lab: evaluating the use of VR studies for real-world authentication research (Download thesis) Funded by the Edinburgh-Glasgow joint PhD scholarship program Co-supervised with Kami Vaniea.
  • Graduated: Dr Yasmeen Abdrabou Leveraging eye gaze to enhance security mechanisms (Download thesis) Funded by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes). Co-supervised with Florian Alt.
  • Graduated: Dr Joseph O'Hagan Dynamic Awareness Techniques For Interactions Between VR Users and Bystanders(Download thesis) Funded by an EPSRC scholarship. Primary supervisor: Julie Williamson.
Bachelor/Undergraduate and Master Thesis Supervision
Taught Courses
Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK. Since September 2018 (6 years, 2 months)
CS1P
Computing Science 1P - Introductory Programming in Python (AY2019/2020)
HCS
Human Centred Security (AY2018/2019, AY2019/2020, AY2020/2021, AY2021/2022)
Research Associate at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany. November 2014 - September 2018
UPS
Authentication in the 21st century - An introduction to Usable Security (WS17/18)
PPT
Workshop on Persuasive Technologies (SS17)
ATH
Advanced Topics in HCI (SS15, SS16, SS17)
HS
Advanced Seminar in Media Informatics (WS15/16, SS16, WS16/17, SS17, WS17/18, SS18)
MMP
Multimedia Programming (SS18)
Teaching & Research Assistant at the German University in Cairo (GUC) March 2012 - July 2013 (1 year 5 months)
DMET 601
Web Technologies & Usability (SS13, SS12)
CSEN 1001
Computer & Network Security (SS13)
BINF 701
Information Security (WS12)
DMET 501
Introduction to Media Engineering (WS12)
CSEN 404
Introduction to Computer Networks (SS12)
Junior Teaching Assistant at the German University in Cairo (GUC) September 2009 - June 2011 (1 year 9 months)
CSEN 603
Software Engineering (SS11)
CSEN 301
Data Structures & Algorithms (WS09)