Job Title
Research Fellow

Company/Organization
University of Oxford

Bio
Jassim Happa is a Research Fellow in the Dept. of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. His research interests include (alphabetically listed) Computer Graphics, Cybersecurity Analytics, Human Factors, Human Visual Perception, Resilience and Visualization. He obtained a BSc (Hons) in Computing Science at the University of East Anglia in 2006 (majoring in computer graphics). After a year of working as an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) analyst, he began a PhD in Engineering at the University of Warwick in October 2007 where he developed a number of novel computer graphics and visualization techniques to help domain experts use and interpret their datasets better - with archaeologists being primary use cases. He successfully defended his PhD in January 2012, and has since December 2011 worked at Oxford as a postdoctoral researcher. In more recent years spent he has spent his research efforts on cybersecurity analytics through visualization, covering topics such as threat modelling, situational awareness, risk propagation, decision support, resilience, privacy as well as cyber threat intelligence sharing. He supervises, tutors and lectures students in computer graphics and cybersecurity related subjects for his dept., including undergraduates, masters and doctoral levels, incl. for the Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Cyber Security in topics such as situational awareness, intrusion detection and security architecture.

1. PROTECTIVE: A European-wide NREN Cyber Threat Intelligence Sharing Platform - Lessons Learnt To Date - 06 Dec, 2017