Researchers

Research staff

 

 

Research staff

Allysa Czerwinsky

Allysa Czerwinsky
Graduate Teaching Assistant, ISST

Angelos Malandrakis

Angelos Malandrakis
Research Postgraduate, ISST/Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Chotiwat Jantarakasem

Chotiwat Jantarakasem
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Tony Maher

Tony Maher
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Xiangmin Yang

Xiangmin Yang
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

PhD students

We offer doctoral training in conjunction with Imperial's academic departments and external government and industry partners.

If you are interested in pursuing a PhD with the ISST, or if you are an organisation interested in developing collaborative PhD research projects, please contact the ISST Co-Director Professor Deeph Chana (d.chana@imperial.ac.uk).

PhD students

  • Angelos Malandrakis

    Personal details

    Angelos Malandrakis PhD student, ISST and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

    Research

    PhD title:  CNN based threat detection in 3D CT images.

    Supervisors:  Prof. Deeph Chana, Prof. Washington Yotto Ochieng.

    Angelos works with AI methods to detect emerging threat materials and objects on X-ray baggage scanner images. Prior to this, he worked for several years as a machine learning and software engineer. 

  • Duke T J Ludera

    Personal details

    Duke T J Ludera PhD student, ISST and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

    Research

    PhD title:  AI-Driven Modelling for Exceptional Unbalanced Events

    Supervisors:  Prof. Washington Ochieng, Dr. William Proud, and Dr. Gareth Tear

    Duke is utilising AI and data mining techniques to model unbalanced data and behavioural patterns for exceptional events. This research emphasises security and resilience in infrastructure and transport areas, using unique datasets to refine machine learning strategies for highly skewed distributions.

  • Rob Murray

    Personal details

    Rob Murray PhD student, ISST

    Research

    Rob was appointed by NATO’s Secretary General as the Head of NATO’s Innovation Unit in December 2019. Rob’s professional interests are centered at the national security intersection of finance, technology, and Defence, underpinned by those relationships between the private sector, academia, and public sector.

  • Val Li

    Personal details

    Val Li PhD student, ISST and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

    Research

    PhD title:  Airport Security and Optimisation

    Supervisors:  Prof. Deeph Chana, Prof. Washington Yotto Ochieng, Dr William G Proud

    Val is interested in digital twins, mathematical modelling, and the optimisation of airports as well as other infrastructure.

  • Xiangmin Yang

    Personal details

    Xiangmin Yang PhD student, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

    Research

    PhD title:  Societal Resilience   

    Supervisors:  Prof. Washington Yotto   Ochieng   and   Dr.   Mireille Elhajj

    Xiangmin   has a MSc from the first cohort of the Security and Resilience Programme at ISST, Imperial College London, and a BA in Comprehensive Physics from Colorado College.   

Our people

people

ISST Operations

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Affiliates

Security Science Fellows

We draw upon a wide pool of affiliated researchers from various disciplines across Imperial College London.
Advisory board

Advisory Board

Our Advisory Board comprises senior figures from the field of security and innovation, drawn internally and externally from both industry and academia.