Academic Work and Interests #

Publications, Talks, Courses Taught, etc.

I am open to be an academic reviewer or volunteer to support workshops on Usable Security, Privacy and Cybersecurity.
I have been invited to be reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Computer Society, ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS), and Transactions on Mobile Computing.

Current #

Working in collaboration with Dr. Rakesh Verma from the University of Houston:
E-Guard: phishing study (not the official title: evaluating and reducing cyber risk)

Courses Taught #

Reykjavik University
Part-time / Seasonal Teacher
Software Architecture and Implementation / Hönnun og smíði hugbúnaðar (English); Aug 2020 - Dec 2020.

Reykjavik University
Part-time / Seasonal Teacher
Software Architecture and Implementation / Hönnun og smíði hugbúnaðar (English); Aug 2019 - Dec 2019.

Talks #

• April 2023. Invited to present at The Icelandic High-Performance Computing (IHPC) workshop, University of Iceland.
  Topic: My current research with Dr. Rakesh Verma from the University of Houston: E-Guard Evaluating and Reducing Cyber Risk
  Also my work co-advising on Vulnerability Disclosure attitude in Iceland, University of Iceland.
  

• November 2019. Organised talks and presentations at Icelandair ehf.
  Topic: World Usability Day. My presentation: Usable Security.
  

• December 2018. Sabre Iceland ehf, Reykjavík, Iceland.
  Topic: Usable Security: passwords, GDPR and industry.
  

• December 2018. Invited to talk to the University del Bio-Bio, Chile to the Computer Science department.
  Topic: Usable Security Research: an overview, passwords and CAPTCHAs

• May 2017. Sabre Iceland ehf, Reykjavík, Iceland.
  Topic: Security Scans: Risks, Vulnerabilities and Threats.
  

• July 2015. British HCI Conference.
  Topic: Heuristics for the Evaluation of Captchas on Smartphones.
  

• February 2015. NDSS Workshop on Usable Security (USEC)
  Topic: Exploring the Usability of CAPTCHAS on Smartphones: Comparisons and Recommendations
  

• June 2015. School of Computer Science, Carleton University.
  Topic: The usability of captchas on mobile devices
  

• July 2013. International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT)
  Topic: The Usability of CAPTCHAs on Smartphones.
  

• June 2004. School of Computer Science, Carleton University.
  Topic: Hot Swapping and State Persistence a Framework for State Transfer
  

Research Interests #

Usable Security #

Research groups focusing their research on human-centred, usability, privacy and computer security.

CHORUS Lab https://chorus.scs.carleton.ca/publications/
LERSSE https://lersse.ece.ubc.ca/
Behavioural Security Research Group https://www.besec.uni-bonn.de/
CyLab https://cylab.cmu.edu/research/usability.html

Current Research Topics #

• Vulnerability Disclosure Practices.
• Phishing study in collaboration with a Professor from the University of Houston: E-Guard.

Mentoring / Student Supervision #

Háskóli Íslands
September 2023. Co-supervised Þorsteinn K. Ingólfsson on his Computer Science Master’s student.
Topic: Vulnerability disclosure practices in Iceland.

Services #