Professor Muttukrishnan Rajarajan

Overview

Raj received his BEng and PhD degrees from City University of London in 1994 and 1999 respectively. From 1999 he worked at City University of London as a Research Fellow. In August 2000 he moved to CMG as a Telecommunications Consultant. After a few years in the industry Raj is now a Professor of Security Engineering. He is currently the Director of the Institute for Cyber Security at City University of London and carries out research in the areas of privacy preserving data management, Internet of Things privacy, network intrusion detection, cloud security and identity management using blockchain. Raj has received funding from EPSRC, Royal Academy of Engineering, European Commission, Innovate UK, British Council and industry to carry out research in cyber security. He has supervised several PhDs jointly with British Telecommunications, UK in the area if data analytics for cyber security and network intrusion detection. To date Raj has graduated more than 30 PhD students in the area of Cyber Security and continues to supervise a good number of students in the area of Cloud Security, Privacy and blockchain.

He is also the Programme Director for the MSc in Project Management, Finance and Risk.

He is a senior member of IEEE, a member of IET and an associate member of the charted institute of information security and a member of Technical Programme Committees of several security and privacy conferences.

Raj is the CEO of CityDefend (www.citydefend.com) a start up in the area of secure search in the encrypted Cloud. He also sits on the Editorial boards of the Journal on Wireless Networks, Elsevier Journal of Health Policy and Technology and Emerald Journal of Information Management and Computer Security.

Qualifications

• PhD Information Engineering, City, University of London, United Kingdom, 1999

Employment

• Professor of Security Engineering, City, University of London, Aug 2013 – present
• External Examiner, Middlesex University, Aug 2012 – Jul 2018
• Visiting Research Fellow, BT Security Research Laboratories, Aug 2010 – present
• Reader, City, University of London, Jan 2001 – Jul 2013
• Telecommunication Consultant, Logica, Jan – Dec 2000
• Research Fellow, City, University of London, Aug 1998 – Dec 1999

Memberships of professional organisations

• Academic Member, National Crime Agency (e-crime Unit), Jun 2012 – present
• UK Cabinet Office’s initiative on Digital Government – Identity Assurance, Feb 2012 – present
• Member, IET, Jan 2011 – present
• Associate Member, Institute of Information Security Professionals (IISP), Jan 2011 – present
• Member, Connected Health Think Tank, Apr 2010 – present
• Senior Member, IEEE, Jan 1999 – present

Research Summary

Raj leads the Information Security Group (ISG) at City University London which carries out research in the following domains:

- Cyber Security
- Wireless Security
- Cloud Security & Trust
- Identity Management and Access Control
- Multi-factor Authentication
- Lightweight Cryptography

Information Security Group has received over GBP 1.5M in the last 2 years to carry out research and commercialisation activities in information security and cybercrime. The group's innovation in the area of mobile banking security has attracted a lot of interest from major content and mobile providers and currently they are partnering with Decimal Technologies to commercialise this research. Strong research collaboration exists between the BT Security Research at Adastral Park, Ipswich and City University London security research team. They also have strong international links with the Centre for the Advancement of Computing (C-DAC), India in the areas of Grid Security, cybercrime and Critical National Infrastructure protection. Moreover, they collaborate with several other security groups across the world including the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, Birla Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, Punjab Engineering College, IIIT Bangalore and Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. Furthermore Information Security Group has strong industrial links with IBM Research labs, Infosys, SecureMatrix, Cisco, AirTight Networks, E&Y, Accenture and other major IT and Security industries.

The research group was involved in the organisation of the First International conference in Information Security and Digital Forensics in September 2009, ISDF 2009, e-Health 2009 in Istanbul, Turkey, IEEE conference on collaborative security technologies.

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