Paul Kearney

Paul Kearney is Professor of Cybersecurity at Birmingham City University. Prior to this, he had a long career in R&D in industry with British Aerospace, Sharp and BT, where he was Chief Security Researcher. He is well known in the UK and EU cybersecurity research communities, having participated in numerous collaborative research projects, and served on committees and advisory and working groups and reviewed projects and proposals for Horizon 2020 and Celtic programmes. He is also a Visiting Scholar at the Etisalat-BT Innovation Centre (EBTIC) at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, an active contributor to the IoT Security Foundation, and full member of the Chartered Institute of Information Security.