Students

NB. I cannot admit Ph.D. students directly myself — you will need to apply via the process on the Department website. This will entail you writing a (short) research proposal that will ensure your application is seen by appropriate potential supervisors. I will no longer be replying individually with this information to generic Ph.D. enquiry emails, though by all means do get in touch if you have specific research ideas you think I might be interested in that you wish to discuss — please provide a short (1—2pp) document outlining your ideas if so.

Any funded places that I have will be advertised via the University. Please read any adverts there carefully — funding eligibility requirements often mean that studentships are only accessible by UK/EU students.

If you are interested in applying to undertake a Ph.D. with me, before I can consider your request I will need to see the following:

• Your CV and research proposal — I need to know what you want to do before we can discuss whether I’d be an appropriate choice of supervisor!
• An indication of how you expect to be funded — unfortunately nothing is free, including Ph.D. study.

I will not respond to enquiries that do not provide this information.

Current

I am fortunate to have worked, and to continue to work, with some excellent Ph.D. students on a wide range of topics:

• Yaman Kalaji (University of Cambridge, 2025–date). “People counting and tracking using sensor fusion and edge computing”.
• Rupendra Mitra (University of Cambridge, 2025–date). “Application of AI/ML techniques in real-time 5g/6g network control at the edge”.
• Stefan Behfar (University of Cambridge, January 2025–date). “Robust federated learning”.

Graduated

• Dr Chris Jensen (University of Cambridge, 2020–2025). “Verified distributed systems”.

• Dr Al-Amjad Tawfiq Isstaif (University of Cambridge, 2020–2025). “Self-scaling services using MirageOS unikernels”.

• Dr Andrew Jeffery (University of Cambridge, 2020–2025). “A decentralised unikernel cluster orchestration system for elastic cloud deployments”.

• Dr Vadim Safronov (University of Cambridge, 2019–2023). “Decentralised protocol-independent automation in smart buildings”.

• Dr Allison Randal (University of Cambridge, 2018–2023). “Transient execution vulnerabilities in the security context of server hardware”.

• Dr Marco Caballero Gutierrez (University of Cambridge, 2016–2021). “Routing algorithms for next-generation MANETs: Why shortest is not the greatest”.

• Dr Helen Oliver (University of Cambridge, 2016–2021). “Obstacles to wearable computing”.

• Dr Jianxin Zhao (University of Cambridge, 2015–2019). “Optimisation of a Modern Numerical Library: a Bottom-Up Approach”.

• Dr Sultan Alanazi (University of Nottingham, 2012–2017), co-supervised with Prof. Derek McAuley. “Improving end-system recommender systems using cross-platform personal information”.

• Dr Christina-Dialechti Emmanouil (University of Nottingham, 2014–2017), co-supervised with Prof. Derek McAuley, Dr Michael Brown and Prof. Lilian Edwards. “Designing for the commercial exploitation of online identity”

• Dr Liz Dowthwaite (University of Nottingham, 2012–2017), co-supervised with Dr Robert Houghton and Dr Alexa Spence. “Crowdfunding Webcomics: The Role of Incentives & Reciprocity in Monetising Free Content”

• Dr Marjan Falahrastegar (Queen Mary, University of London, 2012–2016), co-supervised with Prof. Steve Uhlig and Dr Hamed Haddadi. “Online Web Tracking Ecosystem”

• Dr Robert Spencer (University of Nottingham, 2011–2016), co-supervised with Prof. Tom Rodden. “Understanding Configuration History of Domestic Networks”

• Dr Jianhua Shao (University of Nottingham, 2010–2015), co-supervised with Dr George Kuk. “Strategic Signals in the App Economy — An Empirical Study of Google Play Store”

• Dr Anthony Brown (University of Nottingham, 2010–2015), co-supervised with Prof. Tom Rodden. “Domesticating Home Networks”

• Dr Ewa Luger (University of Nottingham, 2009–2013), co-supervised with Prof. Tom Rodden. “Consent reconsidered: reframing consent for ubiquitous computing systems”

• Dr Hamed Haddadi (University College London, 2004–2008), co-supervised with Dr Andrew W. Moore and Dr Miguel Rio. “Topological Characteristics of IP Networks”