Emil Lupu is Professor of Computer Systems in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London where he leads the Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research and the Resilient Information Systems Security (RISS) Group. He is also a Security Science Fellow with Imperial's Institute for Security Science and Technology
Kim Hammar is a postdoctoral researcher at Imperial College London, U.K. His main research interest is automatic control and management of networked systems, with a focus on security and performance management. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Melbourne and a visiting scholar at Arizona State University. Hammar earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in December 2024. He received the VR Postdoc Fellowship 2025 and is an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management.
Kenny joined the group as a PhD student in April 2018. He received an MSc in Machine Learning from Imperial College London and an MA in Mathematics from Johns Hopkins University. His general interests are in machine learning, cryptography, and mathematics. His current research is on the security of machine learning algorithms, primarily adversarial machine learning. He is also interested in health or lifestyle optimization, and is very much into enjoying good food.
Luca joined the group as PhD student on the HiPEDS CDT in October 2018. He received his MSc in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Napoli Federico II, defending his thesis entitled "Negotiation of traffic junctions over 5G networks". The thesis work has been carried out at Ericsson, Gothenburg (Sweden), within a joint project between University of Napoli Federico II, Chalmers University of Technology and Ericsson. He strongly believes in open source development and he currently is a mentor within the Open Leadership Programme offered by Mozilla. His research interests are on the edge between cybersecurity and control engineering. In particular, his studies aim to investigate resilience of networked systems and industrial plants against cyberattacks.
After having completed his PhD in our group, Javi has joined IBM Research as a Research Scientist. He is still a visitor in the RISS group and collaborates closely with us.
Jukka was a PhD student in the RISS group participating in the HiPEDS CDT. He has recently successfully completed his PhD and is continuing within the group as a Research Associate. His current research interests are in ways to measure and improve the cyber-resilience of partially compromised networks, and in network risk analysis using attack graphs. Jukka holds an MSc in Computing Science from Imperial College London, and degrees in economics from the University of Oxford and the University of St Andrews.