I'm a Microsoft Research funded PhD student at Newcastle University in the School of Computing Science, based in the
Culture Lab. My Supervisors are Prof. Patrick Olivier, Dr Jeff Yan and Prof. Peter Wright.
My research interests centre around usable privacy and security mechanisms & with particular focus on security, usability, deployability and user experience.
Current research in this domain centres around user authentication with recent output
exploring key aspects of Graphical Passwords. From an interaction perspective I'm also interested in authentication away from traditional settings, and in new emerging situated computing contexts such as public
tabletop interfaces and public displays.
During 2007 I was I Research Associate in the Informatics Research Institute I was involved on a number of
interesting projects documented on the projects page. In 2008 I interned at the Nokia Research Centre in Helsinki, Finland within the
Trustworthy Communications and Identities group. In 2010 I interned at Microsoft Research Cambridge in the Socio-Digital Systems group.
Also in 2010 I was on the program committee for LocalTrust 2010, a workshop hosted at IFIPTM 2010.
Away from research I'm a keen sportsman, into football, cricket (it's an English thing!). Also I completed the Great North Run -- a half-marathon -- in 2007,
2009, 2011 to raise funds for Martin House Children's Hospice
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