Dr Rizwan Asghar
Academic and research departments
Secure Systems Research Group, Surrey Centre for Cyber Security, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences.About
Biography
Rizwan joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Surrey as Reader in 2022. He is also an Honorary Academic in the School of Computer Science at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Before that, he was Senior Lecturer (above the bar) at the University of Auckland, which he joined in 2015. Prior to that, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at international research institutes, including the Center for IT-Security, Privacy, and Accountability (CISPA) at Saarland University in Germany and CREATE-NET (an international research centre) in Trento Italy, where he also served as a Researcher.
He received his PhD degree in ICT (Security and Privacy) from the University of Trento, Italy in 2013. As part of his PhD programme, he was Stanford Research Institute (SRI) Fellow at SRI International, California, USA. He obtained his MSc degree in Computer Science and Engineering - Information Security Technology from the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), The Netherlands in 2009 and carried out his research as Master Thesis Student at the Ericsson Research Eurolab, Germany. During his career, he also worked as Software Engineer at international software companies.
He is an award-winning teacher and researcher who received several awards, including the 2017 Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence, Best Paper Award at TrustCom 2018, Highly Commended Paper at ITNAC 2017, and Best Paper Award at FiCloud 2015.
University roles and responsibilities
- MSc Admissions
- Academic Integrity Officer
- Personal Tutor
Previous roles
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ResearchResearch interests
His research interests include digital privacy and cybersecurity. He is passionate about developing privacy-preserving systems and cyber resilience. He successfully led a number of research projects on secure storage, access control mechanisms, data provenance, consent management, usable authentication techniques, secure IoT networks, communications security, cybersecurity and privacy in social media, and cybersecurity education.
Research interests
His research interests include digital privacy and cybersecurity. He is passionate about developing privacy-preserving systems and cyber resilience. He successfully led a number of research projects on secure storage, access control mechanisms, data provenance, consent management, usable authentication techniques, secure IoT networks, communications security, cybersecurity and privacy in social media, and cybersecurity education.
Teaching
COMM047: Secure Systems and Applications (Module Leader)
COMM050: Information Security for Business and Government (Module Leader)