Doctor Erisa Karafili

Dr Erisa Karafili

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Formal methods techniques applied to security problems
  • Attributing and investigating Cyber Attacks
  • Threat Models for IoT devices and Hybrid systems

More research

Accepting applications from PhD students.

About

Erisa Karafili is an Associate Professor in Cybersecurity at the University of Southampton.

She is a Leader of Teaching Methods Innovation at the GCHQ/EPSRC Academic Centre of Excellence for Cyber Security Education (ACE-CSE), and a Champion in Security by Design at the GCHQ/EPSRC Academic Centre of Excellence for Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR) both recognized with the Golden Award.

Erisa is a Fellow of the Higher Educational Academy.

She joined the University of Southampton in 2020 as a Lecturer in Cybersecurity. Previously, she was a Marie Curie Fellow at the Department of Computing, Imperial College London. During her Marie Curie project, called AF-Cyber, Erisa investigated the problem of attributing cyber-attacks and focused on constructing techniques and tools to help forensics analysts during cyber-forensics investigation of cyber-attacks.

Previously, she was an RA at Imperial College London and a PostDoc at the Technical University of Denmark.

Erisa obtained her PhD from the University of Verona, with a special focus on non-classical logics applied to security problems in multi-agent systems.

Her main research areas are

  • formal methods applied to security and privacy problems
  • data sharing in cloud environments
  • data access control
  • threat models for IoT and hybrid systems