Shamal Faily

Dr Shamal Faily

Research Assistant

Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD

Interests

There is growing evidence that many software systems are not designed for the people who use them, the goals they need to achieve, the tasks they need to perform, and the environments these systems are situated in.

My research examines how the design of secure and usable software systems can be better supported with design techniques and tools. My doctoral research led to the design of the IRIS (Integrating Requirements and Information Security) design framework, and accompanying open-source CAIRIS (Computer Aided Integration of Requirements and Information Security) software tool.

I am also interested in understanding how entrepreneurship and innovation theories can be used to inform the design of security.

I'm also one of the organising chairs of the Designing Interactive Secure Systems workshop, which will be co-located with BCS HCI 2012 this coming September. Please consider submitting to this event, and helping us push the state of the art in secure system design.

Biography

I am a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Computer Science, having recently completed my DPhil in Computer Science here at Oxford. Before this, I was a software engineer within Logica's Space business.