I'm Professor of Computing Science at Glasgow University.

My research helps to understand the failure of complex systems, including national critical infrastructures. In particular, I focus of the interactions between safety and security - for example, developing techniques so that we can still land aircraft even after malware has been detected in air traffic management systems.

I've worked on space mission failures with NASA and the European Space Agency, on contingency planning for the European Commission, military risk assessments and accident analysis for the US Air Force, on the security of sporting events and computer-related fraud in financial institutions.

In my spare time, I'm an SRU level one rugby coach with the West of Scotland juniors.

2013: Starting work on the reliability, safety and security of the EU EATS project supporting the European Train Control System (ETCS).

Co-chairing IFIP 13.5 Workshop on Human Factors in the Safety and Security of Critical Systems

Working on cyber-security incident reporting techniques for Cloud architectures on behalf of ENISA.

Helping UK Department of Transport with new Cyber-security working groups.

2012: I designed an architecture for reporting cyber-security incidents under article 13a across member states by ENISA.

2011: I joined the IAASS Suborbital Safety Committee, looking amongst other things at mishap reporting requirements for commercial space flight.

2010: Scientific Research and Development Award from International Systems Safety Society.

Evaluation panel for Home Office's INnovative Science and Technology in Counter Terrorism (INSTINCT) programme part of CONTEST.

Commissioned to provide European Railways Agency with guidelines on 'best practices' in accident and incident reporting across member states.

Full List of Publications, Recent Projects, Awards, Seminars etc and Recent workshops.

Here is an on-line version of my Handbook of Incident and Accident Reporting.

And download a new book on Military Risk Assessment: From Conventional Conflict to Counter-Insurgency Operations.

Here are some recent papers:

• Inadequate Legal, Regulatory and Technical Guidance for the Forensic Analysis of Cyber-Attacks on Safety-Critical Infrastructures

• CyberSafety: Interactions between CyberSecurity and the Software Engineering of Safety-Critical Systems

• Understanding Failures in International Infrastructures: A Comparison of Major Blackouts in North America and Europe,

• Technical and Organisational Security at Olympic Events

• Night Vision Equipment in Military Accidents and Incidents

• Hidden Human Factors in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

• Extending the Use of Evacuation Simulators to Increase Resilience to Improvised Explosive Devices

• Politics and Patient Safety Don't Mix: Understanding the Failure of Large-Scale Software Procurement for Healthcare Systems

I help to edit:

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Cognition, Technology and Work, Safety Science, Interacting With Computers, Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making,

IMechE's new Journal of Risk and Reliability, Journal of Systems Safety, the Health Informatics Journal. International Journal of Forensic Software Engineering

I helped to chair the Scientific Advisory Committee for Europe's air traffic modernisation programme (SESAR). I have chaired funding panels, reviewed proposals etc for the Danish Councils for Independent Research (2011), Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation (2011 and 2012), European Commission, Foundation for Polish Science (2010), Hong Kong Research Grants Council (2012), Enterprise Ireland, UK EPSRC, MRC, ESRC as well as the US NSF (2010) and Canadian WorkSafeBC.

I am giving or have given recent invited talks at:

• Association of Surgeons of Great Britan and Ireland Int. Surgical Congress, 2013.
• Lloyd's Register Educational Trust Transport Risk Management, Annual lecture, Imperial College, 2012.
• 20th Safety Critical Systems Symposium 2012
• Working on Safety 2012
• Italian Conference on Helicopter Safety in Mass Emergencies 2012
• EUROCONTROL Safety Meeting for CEOs in Air Traffic, 2012

Together with Paul Casely (DSTL), I am technical co-chair for the IET International Conference on System Safety 2007-2011 and I am co-chair for ACM HCI Aero 2014.

I have served on a number of conference organising committees. I am on the programme committees for the following:

• South African Institute for Computer Scientists and Information Technologists Annual Conference 2013
• Embedded Reat Time Software and Systems 2014
• SAFECOMP 2013: Reliability, Safety and Security
• Interact 2013
• Formal Methods and Interactive Systems 2013
• 3rd International Conference on Application and Theory of Automation in Command and Control Systems (ATACCS2013)

I have been a judge for the UK Distinguished Dissertations in Computing Science. I was head of our Teaching Committee and chaired the Board of Studies across our Undergraduate and M.Sc. programmes.

I was nominated by my students for one of the Prizes for Excellent Teachers.

I am an external examiner and have taught:

Safety Critical Systems Development. Ada programming Distributed Operating Systems CS1P: Programming in Python CS1Q: Intro. to Human Computer Interaction. CS1Q: Intro. to Computer Systems.

IS3: Usability of Web-Based Systems. Professional Skills and Issues (4/MSc). Interactive Systems Design. Interface Design using Java. Interface Design for Windows. Social Aspects of Computing.