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Professor M. Angela Sasse

Head of Information Security Research

Office: 6.06, Malet Place Engineering
Tel: +44 020 7679 7212
Fax: +44 020 7387 1397
Email: a.sasse [at] cs.ucl.ac.uk

 

 

Research

Research interests: how we design and implement novel technologies that are fit for pupose, and make benefits individuals and society.  Specific areas:

• Usable and effective security, human-centred approaches to security, privacy and trust
• Novel multimedia and communicatications technologies and services

Current research projects

• Trust Economics
• Privacy Value Networks
• TARGET
• SAFETRIP (starts September 2009)

Past Research Projects

Teaching

• People and Security (GA10)
• Also taught at Oxford University as part of the Software Engineering Programme

Admin

• PhD Tutor 1999-2007
• Chair of Exam Board (Undergraduate) 1998-2000.

Short Biography

Read psychology in Germany and holds an M.Sc. in Occupational Psychology from Sheffield University, and a PhD in Computer Science (on Users' Models) from the University of Birmingham. Worked as a Human Factors Specialist for Philips Corporate Industrial Design in 1990. Started as Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at UCL in November 1990.

Beyond UCL

• Member of the EPSRC College since 2003.
• Visiting Professor at the Defence Academy at Shrivenham
• Currently chair of the Human Vulnerabilites SIG of the Cybersecurity KTN, member of the Information Assurance Advisory Council and the Biometrics Advisory Group
• Conference co-chair WEIS 2009

Conferences

• Past Chair of the British HCI Group (A Specialist Group of the British Computer Society) and Joint Technical Programme Chair of HCI'96.
• International Programme Committee Co-Chair of INTERACT'99 in Edinburgh.
• Papers Co-Chair (with Betsy Comstock) of CHI 2002 in Minneapolis.
• Co-Chair of Mentoring Program (with Michael Muller) for CHI 2003 in Ft. Lauderdale.
• Co-Chair of WEIS 2009

 

Research Fellows: Dr Philip Inglesant, Dr Will Seager, Dr Sacha Brostoff
Current PhD students: Hendrik Knoche, Sven Laqua, Adam Beautement, Adrian Rahaman, Miguel Malheiros, Martin Rustov

List of all PhD students.

Publications

• List of publications

Teaching

People and Security (GA10)

Also taught at Oxford University as part of the Software Engineering Programme

External Links

In 2007 , Prof. Sasse chaired the KTN Working Group on Human Vulnerabilities in security [white paper].

 

Prof. Sasse is Area Editor of IET Information Security