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Eerke Boiten spent the first twenty years of his research career, first in the Netherlands and then in the UK, on mathematics and logic based methods to guarantee and verify the correctness of software. He published over 50 peer reviewed papers on formal methods, including program transformation, viewpoint specification, and refinement in process algebra and state-based systems (e.g. Z). On the latter topic, he authored the monographs “” (Springer 2004, 2015) and "" (Springer 2018) with John Derrick , and organised many conferences and workshops including nine editions of the BCS-FACS Refinement Workshop.

His research has since moved mainly towards cyber security and privacy. He set up and led Kent’s interdisciplinary Research Centre in Cyber Security from 2012 to 2017.  In 2017, he moved to 51Âþ»­ to lead the Cyber Technology Institute, which then held NCSC/EPSRC Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research status from 2019 to 2023 and NCSC Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Education (Gold) status since 2021. He became Head of the School of Computer Science and Informatics in 2019. His current research projects are in privacy impact assessment, anonymisation, cyber intelligence sharing, and privacy and broader implications of artificial intelligence. He often engages with the press on these topics and broader issues of impacts of computing in society.

Cyber Technology Institute

Recent publications:

• , Thomas Reisinger, Eerke Boiten and Isabel Wagner, International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications, IEEE, 2024
• , Thomas Reisinger, Isabel Wagner and Eerke Boiten, ACM Computing Surveys, 2023
• , Isabel Wagner and Eerke Boiten, 10th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation, 2023.

• Fenia Ferra, Isabel Wagner, Eerke Boiten, Lee Hadlington, Ismini Psychoula and Tichard Snape, Security and Privacy, 2021.

• , Kabiru Mohammed, Aladdin Ayesh and Eerke Boiten, MDPI Cryptography, 2021.

• , Adham Albakri, Eerke Boiten and Richard Smith, DETIPS 2020, LNCS 12580.

• Aliyu, Aliyu; Maglaras, Leandros; He, Ying; Yevseyeva, Iryna; Cook, Allan; Janicke, Helge; Boiten, Eerke Albert, Applied Sciences, 2021.

• , Adham Albakri, Eerke Boiten and Rogerio de Lemos, Annual Privacy Forum, June 2019

Keynotes:

• Cryptocurrencies: Computing Foundations, Risks and Socioeconomic Impacts, Henry George School of Social Sciences, 2023
• The privacy risks of contact data, Association of British Chinese Professors, 2022. 
• interview for Anthropology and Technology conference invited talk, September 2020
• SAC Computing 2018

Recent press comments and op-eds:

• , BCS IT Now, November 2024

• , Bentham’s Gaze 2023
• , The Conversation, Jul 2021.

• , The Conversation, March 2023.

• (video), on Covid apps, June 2020

• , The Observer op-ed, February 2020.

• 39 , over 440,000 reads.

Books:

• , with John Derrick, Springer 2018

• Refinement in Z and Object-Z, with John Derrick, Springer 2004, 2^nd edition 2015

• Integrated Formal Methods 2004, proceedings, with John Derrick and Graeme Smith, LNCS 2999, Springer

• Mathematics of Program Construction 2002, proceedings, with Bernhard Möller, LNCS 2386

Formal methods, cyber security, privacy

Privacy, data protection, cyber security, formal methods

Ir (Twente)

PhD (Nijmegen)

PGCHE (Kent)

• Program committee member for ABZ (several years)
• FM 2021 Paper First chair
• EPSRC College member, since 2016 (grant reviews since 2002); grant reviews for NWO (Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research); H2020 reviews 2019
• Panel member for Academy of Finland, 2015-2016
• Program committee Mathematics of Program Construction, 1998-2015, program chair 2002
• Program chair BCS-FACS Refinement Workshop, 9 editions 2002-2015
• Steering Committee FOSAD Summer School, 2012-2019
• Panel for EAPLS best PhD thesis award, 2010-

• Member of the BCS
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Sarah De'Ath

Debalina Padariya (2nd supervisor)

Asif Minhas (2nd supervisor)

Trevor Wood (2nd supervisor)

• Member of the Editorial Board of Formal Aspects of Computing journal, 2010-
• External reviewer for Nuffield Bioethics report on Biological and Health Data, 2015
• External examiner, MSc programmes in Computer Science, University of Sheffield, 2007-2012; MSc programmes in Advanced Computer Science and Security, University of Birmingham 2013-2017
• Reviewer for many journals and conferences