Dr Gordon Russell's Supervisions (3)

PhD
Doctorate

Level	Doctorate
Student	Dr Peter McLaren
Status	Complete
Part Time	No
Years	2016 - 2019
Project Title	Investigations into decrypting live secure traffic in virtual environments
Awarding Institution	Edinburgh Napier University
Director of Studies	Gordon Russell
Second Supervisor	Bill Buchanan
Additional Supervisor	Thomas Tan

PhD
Doctorate

Level	Doctorate
Student	Dr Sean McKeown
Status	Complete
Part Time	No
Years	2015 - 2019
Project Title	Utilising reduced file representations to facilitate fast contraband detection
Project Description	The field of Digital Forensics has been facing scalability issues for the last 10 years, resulting in huge backlogs for law enforcement agencies, impeding the course of justice. One reason for this is the performance bottleneck introduced by storage media, with large disk drives potentially requiring an entire day to duplicate. My work focuses on methods for evaluating digital images in a manner which is both computationally inexpensive, and avoids the need to read the entire file from the hard disk. Fingerprints are derived using compressed domain Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) techniques, which are more robust than standard cryptographic hashing methods.
Awarding Institution	Edinburgh Napier University
Director of Studies	Gordon Russell
Second Supervisor	Petra Leimich
Additional Supervisor	Bill Buchanan

Research Degree
Other Qualification

Level	Other Qualification
Student	Andrew Cumming
Status	Withdrawn
Part Time	Yes
Years	2002 - 2003
Awarding Institution	Edinburgh Napier University
Director of Studies	Gordon Russell
Second Supervisor	Jessie Kennedy