Rate My Professor Awais Rashid

Professor Awais Rashid is Professor of Cyber Security in the School of Computer Science at the University of Bristol, where he heads the Bristol Cyber Security Group. He holds BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees. Prior to Bristol, Rashid was co-founder and co-director of the Security Lancaster Institute at Lancaster University. He is a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute.

Rashid's research intersects cyber security and software engineering, developing novel modularity techniques for adaptable, evolvable, and resilient software amid changing user needs and threats. His focus includes security of cyber-physical systems like industrial control systems and Internet of Things, usable security and privacy, software security, and adversarial behaviors in cyber security. As Principal Investigator and Editor-in-Chief of the Cyber Security Body of Knowledge (CyBOK), he leads this National Cyber Security Programme-funded initiative, now a Community Interest Company. He directs the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Cyber Security: Trust, Identity, Privacy and Security in Large-scale Infrastructures (TIPS-at-Scale), the National Research Centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence Online (REPHRAIN) spanning 11 universities, and the SCULI programme: Securing Convergent Ultra-Large Scale Infrastructures. Rashid contributes to PETRAS National Centre of Excellence in IoT Cyber Security, RISCS, RITICS, CREST, and Discribe ESRC Hub, holding advisory roles in national and international programmes.

With over 250 research outputs and more than 14,000 citations, key publications feature 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: A Study of Security Decisions in a Cyber-Physical Systems Game' (IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2019), 'Scamming the Scammers: Towards Automatic Detection of Persuasion in Advance Fee Frauds' (2018), and 'Oops I Did it Again: Further Adventures in the Land of ICS Security Testbeds' (2019). His leadership shapes UK cyber security research and education.