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PhD
Doctorate

Level Doctorate
Student Sam Grierson
Status Current
Part Time No
Years 2021
Project Title Privacy-preserving systems around trust and identity within smart phones
Awarding Institution Edinburgh Napier University
Director of Studies Bill Buchanan
Second Supervisor Craig Thomson
Additional Supervisor Baraq Ghaleb

PhD
Doctorate

Level Doctorate
Student Hisham Ali
Status Current
Part Time No
Years 2021
Project Title Inter-Planetary File System using Distributed Ledges
Awarding Institution Edinburgh Napier University
Director of Studies Jawad Ahmad
Second Supervisor Bill Buchanan
Additional Supervisor Zakwan Jaroucheh

PhD
Doctorate

Level Doctorate
Student Simon Davies
Status Current
Part Time No
Years 2020
Project Title Ransomware detection techniques using file-based analysis
Awarding Institution Edinburgh Napier University
Director of Studies Rich Macfarlane
Second Supervisor Bill Buchanan

Ph.D.
Doctorate

Level Doctorate
Student Dr Pavlos Papadopoulos
Status Complete
Part Time Yes
Years 2019 - 2022
Project Title Privacy-preserving systems around security, trust and identity
Awarding Institution Edinburgh Napier University
Director of Studies Nick Pitropakis
Second Supervisor Bill Buchanan
Additional Supervisor Owen Lo

PhD
Doctorate

Level Doctorate
Student Dr Nilupulee Gunathilake
Status Complete
Part Time No
Years 2018 - 2023
Project Title Electromagnetic side-channel resilience against lightweight cryptography
Awarding Institution Edinburgh Napier University
Director of Studies Ahmed Al-Dubai
Second Supervisor Bill Buchanan
Additional Supervisor Owen Lo

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
Awarding Institution Edinburgh Napier University
Director of Studies Gordon Russell
Second Supervisor Petra Leimich
Additional Supervisor Bill Buchanan

PhD
Doctorate

Level Doctorate
Student Peter Aaby
Status Current
Part Time No
Years 2016
Project Title Advancing touch-based continuous authentication by automatically extracting user behaviours
Awarding Institution Edinburgh Napier University
Director of Studies Thomas Tan
Second Supervisor Ben Paechter
Additional Supervisor Bill Buchanan

PhD
Doctorate

Level Doctorate
Student Andrea Scott
Status Withdrawn
Part Time Yes
Years 1999 - 2003
Project Title Generic Methods in Intelligent Processes
Awarding Institution Edinburgh Napier University
Director of Studies Bill Buchanan

PhD
Doctorate

Level Doctorate
Student Dr Owen Lo
Status Complete
Part Time Yes
Years 2010 - 2015
Project Title Framework for evaluation of e-health platform and services
Project Description Methodologies for evaluation of e-Health platforms are still lacking. This research proposes an e-Health evaluation framework that aims to provide a concise methodology for the evaluation of e-Health platforms under three main categories: usability evalua
Awarding Institution Edinburgh Napier University
Director of Studies Bill Buchanan

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