Dr Mark Manulis
Academic and research departments
Surrey Centre for Cyber Security, Department of Computer Science, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering.Biography
Dr Mark Manulis is affiliated as Reader (part-time) with the Department of Computer Science.
He was full-time employee at the Department from February 2012 until February 2022. He joined in 2012 as Senior Lecturer. In 2014, the University has been recognized by the UK Government as Academic Centre of Excellence for Cyber Security Research and Mark became Deputy Director of its newly established Surrey Centre for Cyber Security (SCCS). In 2020, Mark was promoted to Reader and appointed as Head of Department of Computer Science, a role which he held until the end of his full-time employment.
University roles and responsibilities
- 2020 - 2022 Head of Department of Computer Science
- 2017 - 2020 EIT Digital Engagement Coordinator (incl. industry links and establishment of the CDT in Future Connected Technologies)
- 2014 - 2020 Senior Tutor for Professional Training (role replaced by Director of Employability)
- 2014 - 2015 Programme Director of Information Security MSc
- 2012 - 2014 Director of MSc Studies
- 2012 - 2013 Marketing Coordinator in the Department of Computer Science
News
Research
Research interests
Research areas
- Authentication and key management
- Cryptographic protocols
- Privacy-enhancing technologies
- Security in networks and distributed systems
Research projects at Surrey
2021 – 2024 SECANT: Security and Privacy Protection in Internet of Things Devices (funded by EU H2020, https://secant-project.eu/)
2019 – 2022 Distributed Multi-Factor Authentication (funded by NCSC)
2018 – 2021 ASTRID: AddreSing ThReats for virtualIseD services (funded by EU H2020, https://www.astrid-project.eu/)
2018 – 2020 TargetSat: Security of COTS-based Satellite Systems (funded by NCSC and NCC Group)
2018 – 2019 SAFRON: Safe Operational Radio Network (funded by Innovate UK)
2018 – 2019 Secure Fleets of Consumer Drones (funded by NCSC)
2017 – 2020 ABS4Cars: Attribute-based Signatures for Privacy in V2X (funded by NCSC)
2017 – 2020 TAPESTRY: Trust, Authentication and Privacy over De-Centralised Registry (funded by EPSRC)
2011 – 2015 PRIMAKE: Private Multi-Party Authentication and Key Exchange (funded by DFG, Germany)
Supervision
Postgraduate research supervision
Current PhD students/RAs/Post-Docs
- Nick Frymann (PhD student)
Graduated PhD students and Former RAs/Post-Docs
- Catalin Dragan (Post-Doc)
- Daniel Gardham (PhD)
- Franziskus Kiefer (PhD)
- Veronika Kuchta (PhD)
- Bertram Poettering (PhD)
- Venkkatesh Sekar (RA)
My teaching
PGT modules
- Symmetric Cryptography (2014 - 2016, 2019 - 2021)
- Asymmetric Cryptography (2014 - 2019)
- Secure Systems and Applications (2014 - 2016)
- Web Hacking and Countermeasures” (2012 - 2014)
UG modules
- Data Structures and Algorithms (2016 - 2020)
- Advanced Algorithms (2012 - 2014)
- Software Engineering (2011 - 2012)