Steven James Murdoch is Professor of Security Engineering in the Computer Science Department,

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. His research covers privacy-enhancing technology,

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, and anonymous communication, in particular

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. He is also known for discovering several vulnerabilities in the

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bank chipcard payment system (

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) and for creating

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Education and career

Murdoch was educated at the

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completing a PhD on computer security supervised by Markus Kuhn in 2008. In March 2022, he joined the board of

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Awards and honours

He is a

Fellow of the British Computer Society image:Maurice Vincent Wilkes 1980 (3).jpg, Sir Maurice Wilkes served as the first President of BCS in 1957 BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, known as the British Computer Society until 2009, is a professional body and a learned socie ...

and

Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology Fellow of the UK Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET) is the highest grade of Institution of Engineering and Technology membership, awarded to those who have sustained high levels of achievement, for several years. Fellows must demon ...

. He received the 2008 ERCIM Security and Trust Management Working Group Award for his PhD thesis "Covert channel vulnerabilities in anonymity systems".. In 2012 he was appointed as a

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University Research Fellow.

References

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