Peter Ryan

	Position:	Professor
	E-mail:	peter.ryan ncl.ac.uk
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	Mail:	School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU United Kingdom
	Office:	Room 1107 , Claremont Tower

Brief Biography

Peter Ryan is a Professor in the CSR.

Prior to joining the CSR, he conducted research in formal methods and information assurance at GCHQ, CESG, DERA, SRI Cambridge, the Norwegian Computing Centre Oslo and the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. Before migrating into information assurance he was a theoretical physicist and holds a BSc in Theoretical Physics and a PhD in Mathematical Physics from the University of London for research in quantum gravity.

He has published numerous articles; the most recent being "Mathematical Models of Computer Security," a chapter in LNCS 2171, is based on lectures given at the FOSAD 2000 Summer School. He is co-author of the book "Modelling and Analysis of Security Protocols," Pearson 2001.

Recently he has been active in the area of cryptographic voting schemes, in particular developing the Pret a Voter scheme. He has co-chaired several worskhops in this area, notably WOTe 2006: http://www.wote2006.org/

Publications

A list of publications by Peter Ryan is available.

Research Groups

Peter is a member of the [ Dependability ] [ Theoretical Computing Science ] research group(s)

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