Overview

William is a Senior Research Scientist within United Technologies Research Centre Ireland where he carries out research in the Cyber Physical Security domain.

On a professional capacity, William serves as a Program Committee Member for IFIP SEC, IFIP NOMS, SECRYPT, IFIP DBSec, IWSAC, AIMSA, SETOP and CRiSIS. William acts as a reviewer for a number of computer security journals and conferences.

In the past, William held a role as a Senior Research Technologist within the Center of Excellence at EMC Ireland. He carried out research on Cloud and Data Center infrastructure security configuration management.

Previous to that, William held a role as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science, University College Cork and was a member of the Cork Constraint Computation Centre (4C). He carried out research (directed by Dr. Simon Foley) on network security configuration, threat management and cyber-physical security.

William holds a Ph.D. in Computer Security from University College Cork. He also holds the following degrees M.Sc. (research) and B.Sc. (honours) both from N.U.I. Maynooth. He previously held research posts at Waterford Institute of Technology’s TSSG and at Ericsson Applied Research Laboratories, Ireland.