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Education

BSc Computer Science (1st Class Hons), Heriot-Watt University, 2018
PhD Cybersecurity (Security of Robotic Workflows), University of Strathclyde, 2022

Professional Certifications

Postgraduate Certificate of Researcher Professional Development (PGCert), University of Strathclyde, 2022
Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA), University of Strathclyde, 2023

Work experience

November 2022 - Current: Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Heriot-Watt University
- Duties included: Independent & Collaborative Research, Teaching, Marking & Assessment, Guest Lectures
- Supervisor: Professor Lynne Baillie
October 2018 - May 2020: Development and Delivery of Cybersecurity MSc Modules
- University of Strathclyde
- Duties included: Course Development, Teaching, Marking & Assessment
March 2019 - February 2020: Data Science Industry Placement
- Keysight & National Physical Laboratory, Scotland (NPL)
- Duties included: Lightning Talks, Requirement Analysis, Software Development/Engineering, Security Analysis

Service and leadership

Technical Program Committee for the 3rd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Industrial Internet-of-Things Security (AIoTS) 2021
Workshop Organiser and Program Committee for Deconstructing Gamified Approaches to Security and Privacy (DGASP) at SOUPS 2023
Euan Minto Review Committee (2018, 2020, 2021)
MSc Student Supervision - 4 students

Skills

Programming
- Python (5 years)
- Java (9 years)
- HTML, CSS (6 years)
- R (4 years)
- JavaScript, jQuery (2 years)
- C, C++ (1 year)
- C# (1 year)
- Unity (4 months)
Communication
- Academic Writing
- Independent Research
- Teaching & Marking
- Qualitative Analysis
- Teamwork & Collaboration
Computing
- Windows, Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL), macOS
- Machine Learning (Tensorflow, Keras, PyTorch)
- Acoustic & Digital Signal Processing/Analysis
- Blockchain (Ethereum, Hyperledger)
- Robot Operating System (ROS/ROS2, SROS2)
- MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra
- CI/CD (Jenkins)
- Git/Maven

Publications

A game-theoretic analysis of DoS attacks on driverless vehicles

Ryan Shah, Shishir Nagaraja, "A game-theoretic analysis of DoS attacks on driverless vehicles." arXiv, 2019.

Clicktok: click fraud detection using traffic analysis

Shishir Nagaraja, Ryan Shah, "Clicktok: click fraud detection using traffic analysis." Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks, 2019.

Cocaine delivery via driverless vehicles OR Scaling physical-proximity attacks on driverless vehicles using structured graph analysis

Ryan Shah, Shishir Nagaraja, "Cocaine delivery via driverless vehicles OR Scaling physical-proximity attacks on driverless vehicles using structured graph analysis." arXiv, 2019.

Do we have the time for IRM? service denial attacks and SDN-based defences

Ryan Shah, Shishir Nagaraja, "Do we have the time for IRM? service denial attacks and SDN-based defences." Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, 2019.

Poster: Unified access control for surgical robotics

Ryan Shah, Shishir Nagaraja, "Poster: Unified access control for surgical robotics." Proceedings of the 24th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies, 2019.

Privacy with surgical robotics: challenges in applying contextual privacy theory

Ryan Shah, Shishir Nagaraja, "Privacy with surgical robotics: challenges in applying contextual privacy theory." arXiv, 2019.

Secure Calibration for Safety-Critical IoT: Traceability for Safety Resilience

Ryan Shah, Michael McIntee, Shishir Nagaraja, Sahil Bhandary, Prerna Arote, Joy Kuri, "Secure Calibration for Safety-Critical IoT: Traceability for Safety Resilience." arXiv, 2019.

Security landscape for robotics

Ryan Shah, "Security landscape for robotics." arXiv, 2019.

A unified access control model for calibration traceability in safety-critical IoT

Ryan Shah, Shishir Nagaraja, "A unified access control model for calibration traceability in safety-critical IoT." Information Systems Security: 16th International Conference, ICISS 2020, Jammu, India, December 16--20, 2020, Proceedings 16, 2020.

Sensor identification via Acoustic Physically Unclonable Function (PUF)

Girish Vaidya, TV Prabhakar, NITHISH Gnani, Ryan Shah, Shishir Nagaraja, "Sensor identification via Acoustic Physically Unclonable Function (PUF)." Digital Threats: Research and Practice, 2021.

VoIPLoc: Passive VoIP call provenance via acoustic side-channels

Shishir Nagaraja, Ryan Shah, "VoIPLoc: Passive VoIP call provenance via acoustic side-channels." Proceedings of the 14th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks, 2021.

Can You Still See Me?: Reconstructing Robot Operations Over End-to-End Encrypted Channels

Ryan Shah, Chuadhry Ahmed, Shishir Nagaraja, "Can You Still See Me?: Reconstructing Robot Operations Over End-to-End Encrypted Channels." arXiv, 2022.

Fingerprinting Robot Movements via Acoustic Side Channel

Ryan Shah, Mujeeb Ahmed, Shishir Nagaraja, "Fingerprinting Robot Movements via Acoustic Side Channel." arXiv, 2022.

(Poster) Can You Still See Me?: Identifying Robot Operations Over End-to-End Encrypted Channels

Ryan Shah, Chuadhry Ahmed, Shishir Nagaraja, "(Poster) Can You Still See Me?: Identifying Robot Operations Over End-to-End Encrypted Channels." Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks, 2022.

Reconstructing Robot Operations via Radio-Frequency Side-Channel

Ryan Shah, Mujeeb Ahmed, Shishir Nagaraja, "Reconstructing Robot Operations via Radio-Frequency Side-Channel." arXiv, 2022.

Security of robotic workflows

Ryan Shah, "Security of robotic workflows." University of Strathclyde Thesis Library, 2022.

Communicating Complex Decisions in Robot-Assisted Therapy

Carl Bettosi, Kefan Chen, Ryan Shah, Lynne Baillie, "Communicating Complex Decisions in Robot-Assisted Therapy." SARs: TMI Workshop at CHI 2023, 2023.

Investigating Concerns of Security and Privacy Among Rohingya Refugees in Malaysia

Theodoros Georgiou, Lynne Baillie, Ryan Shah, "Investigating Concerns of Security and Privacy Among Rohingya Refugees in Malaysia." CHI 2023 Workshop on Migration Security and Privacy, 2023.

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