Scholar
Alastair Beresford
Google Scholar ID: KJmh8GAAAAAJ
Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,276
H-index
25
i10-index
39
Publications
20
Co-authors
22
list available
Contact
Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Identified and reported CVE-2024-39894; designed a new user discovery service for anonymity networks called Pudding, published in IEEE Security & Privacy (Oakland) 2024; investigated the continuous use feasibility of Tor and Nym on modern smartphones, paper to appear in Usenix Security 2023; developed a more usable method for whistleblowers to contact journalists, winning the Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Award; proposed a novel key agreement scheme for decentralized group messaging, presented at CCS 2021.
Research Experience
- Head of the Department of Computer Science and Technology; co-supervised undergraduate Jacky Kung in research on new keystroke timing obfuscation technique in OpenSSH 9.5.
Background
- Professor of Computer Security at the Computer Laboratory and the Robin Walker Fellow at Queens' College, Cambridge. His research focuses on the security and privacy of large-scale distributed computer systems, with a particular interest in networked mobile devices.
Miscellany
- Contact: University email arb33 at cam.ac.uk, Personal email alastair at beresford.me.uk, Phone +44 1223 763597.
