Distinguished Professor of Cyber Security – Lancaster University
Professor Suri holds the Distinguished Professorship and Chair in Cybersecurity at Lancaster University (UK and Leipzig/Germany) where he co-directed the university-wide Security Institute from 2019-2024. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Dept. of CS at the Univ. of Massachusetts at Amherst. Suri previously held the Chair Professorship on “Dependable Systems & Software” at TU Darmstadt, Germany. Following his PhD at UMass-Amherst, he has held positions at AlliedSignal/Honeywell Research, Boston Univ, Saab Endowed Chair Professorship, multiple sabbaticals at Microsoft Research, and visiting positions at the Univ of Texas at Austin, Academia Sincia, PolyU Hong Kong and Technion.
His research interests span the design, analysis and assessment of trustworthy (dependable & secure) Cloud systems and software. His research has received extensive trans-national funding from the UK: EPSRC Programme Grant SCULI (Securing Convergent Ultra-Large Scale Infrastructures), EPSRC National Hub on Edge AI, EPSRC Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Node on Security, Leverhulme Foundation, DSTL, GCHQ etc, from the US: NSF/DARPA/DHS/ONR/AFOSR, the EC FP6/FP7/H2020 (CONCORDIA, ESCUDO-CLOUD, NECS, CIPSEC, SLA-READY, SPECS, ABC4TRUST, BIC, INDEXYS, COMIFIN, INSPIRE, INCO-TRUST, THINK-TRUST, GENESYS, DECOS, RESIST, DBENCH, NEXTTTA), German DFG/BMBF/DAAD/Loewe, Swedish SSF/VINNOA/NUTEK, Microsoft, IBM, Amazon, Apple, Google, Boeing, GM, NASA, Airbus, SAP, NEC, Hitachi, Saab, Volvo, Daimler among others. He is also a co-founder of the Secure AI startup Mindgard.ai
