Professor Anne Kayem
Associate Professor in Cyber Security
Computer Science
Anne Kayem is an Associate Professor in Cyber-Security and leads the Privacy AnaLytics (PAL) research Group at the University of Exeter. She holds a PhD in Computer Science obtained from Queen's University, Canada in 2009. She is an internationally recognised expert in the field of digital privacy focusing speciifically on algorithms for data transformation to support privacy preserving machine learning and data analytics.
Her PhD thesis was centered on the areas of applied cryptography and access control. She studied the issue of enabliing secure data sharing in dynamic environments where data access authorisations can be changed on-the-fly and studied the performance as well as the security implications of such changes.
Prior to joing the University of Exeter, she was a Senior Researcher in the arae of Data Privacy and Security embedded within the Internet Technologies and Systems Group at the Hasso-Plattner-Institute for Digital Engineering at the University of Potsdam in Germany. Her reesearch during this period was centered on designing and analysing secure and privacy preserving data sharing algorithms, the implementation/testing of these algorithms, and studying human mindsets/perceptions towards security/privacy solutions.
She has written and ediited several books on the subject of cyber-security and privacy notably on Access Control, Information Security, Secure micro-grids, and more recently on Digital Privacy.
She is looking for motivated and creative PhD students to conduct research on cutting-edge topics in the digital privacy area. Potential interest areas include: Personal Information Discovery in Multimedia Data, Privacy Enhancing Technologies, Online Harm Mitigation Technologies, Sentiment/Emotion Analysis, Security/Privacy Mental Models.
PhD funding opportunities (CSC-Exeter, EPSRC, etc) can be accessed at: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/pg-research/money/phdfunding/