Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security – University of Bristol
Dr Sana Belguith is a Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security at the University of Bristol. Her current research focuses on security and privacy in distributed systems such as investigating security threats and vulnerabilities in Satellite systems, investigating security issues in AI and Machine Learning models used in autonomous vehicles, smart cities and space systems, investigating quantum computing threats to distributed systems and migration strategies to achieve post-quantum security. She is also interested in studying ML privacy issues and their compliance with GDPR and privacy laws as well as the application of the right to be forgotten in ML models.
She holds a PhD from the Polytechnic School of Tunisia. Her PhD focused on developing privacy preserving encrypted access control methods for medical data shared in cloud based systems. After completing her PhD, she joined the University of Auckland (New Zealand) as a postdoc researcher, her research was funded by the STRATUS project (Security Technologies Returning Accountability, Trust and User-centric Services in the Cloud), a funded project by the Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment (MBIE) of New Zealand. During her postdoc, she has been working on security and privacy issues in distributed systems such as Pub/Sub systems, IoT, and cloud computing.
