UCL

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UCLs Adastral Park Postgraduate Campus

• Ingemar J. Cox

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Outline

• Background
• General objective
• Management Governance
• Present staffing and headcount
• Future growth objectives
• Business model, present projected income
  streams

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Background

• Established by BT and UCL in 2001
• Funding of 3M
• First Director John OReilley

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Background

• John Midwinter Director 2002-2003
• business plan
• Creates a self-sustaining postgraduate teaching
  and research campus
• Secured additional funding
• 2M from East of England Development Agency (EEDA)

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Background

• Ingemar Cox
• Hired Nov. 2002
• Director Nov. 2003-present

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General objective
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General objective

• To establish a postgraduate research and teaching
  facility at Adastral Park
• Initial focus is in computer science and
  electronic engineering

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General Objectives

• Acknowledged world leader in research relevant to
  the Information and Communications industry
• Reinforce the academic research strengths of East
  Anglia
• strengthening the eastern end of the
  Ipswich/Cambridge corridor
• Established M.Sc. teaching programmes
• Self-supporting after start-up phase

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General Objectives

• Close collaboration with UCLs main campus
• Close industrial collaboration
• Catalyst for industry-industry collaboration by
  providing a neutral participatory environment for
  research

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Management Governance
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Management Governance

• Director
• Technical Advisory Board
• Management Committee

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Advisory Board
Provost Malcolm Grant
Management Committee
Sir Derek Roberts (Chair) Terry Doyle
(Philips) Philip Hargrave (Nortel) Derek McCauley
(Intel) Richard Nichol (BT) Martin Sadler
(HP) Daphne Silvester (EEDA) Steve Wright
(BT) Ingemar Cox Dave Delpy Anthony
Finkelstein Hugh Griffiths Yvo Desmedt Fred
Stentiford
Ingemar Cox
Vice-Provost Dave Delpy
Brian Riley
Dave Delpy
Anthony Finkelstein
Hugh Griffiths
Peter Kirstein

Neil Marjoram

Yvo Desmedt
Chris Pitt
Alwyn Seeds Fred Stentiford

Director Ingemar Cox
Head of EE Hugh Griffiths
Head of CS Anthony Finkelstein
Systems Admin Neil Marjoram
Systems Administrator Neil Marjoram
Manager
3 Professors 8 Lecturers/Sr. Lecturers
Brian Riley
I.J.Cox Y. Desmedt F. Stentiford
A.Lomuscio S. Zhou
Secretary
Assistant
S. Bloomfield
R. Hutchinson
11 Res. Assistants 33 Ph.D. Students
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Staffing and growth
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Present staffing

• Director
• Ingemar J. Cox
• Professors
• Ingemar Cox
• Yvo Desmedt
• Fred Stentiford
• Senior Lecturer
• Alessio Lomuscio
• Lecturer
• Shi Zhou

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Present staffing

• Manager
• Brian Riley
• Business Development Manager
• Simon Maddison
• Secretary
• Suzanne Bloomfield
• System administrator
• Neil Marjoram
• Assistant system administrator
• Richard Hutchinson

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Present staffing

• Research Fellows
• 3
• Interns
• 2
• Ph.D. students
• 13 Ph.D. students
• 10 Eng.D. students

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Present staffing

• Visitors
• Visiting Professor
• David Nacache, Gemplus
• Visiting Research Assistant
• (Charles University, Czech Republic) -1 year
• Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium - 6 mo.
• Visiting Student
• Chevening Scholarship - 9 months
• Interns - University of Rostock, Germany 6 mo.

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Future growth objectives
HEAD COUNT 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Academic (Chairs Research Fellows) 1 2 5 8 11 11 11 11 11
Academic Related 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Technical 0 0 1 2 2 2 2 2 2
Clerical 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Research Staff FTEs 1 2 2 6 11 14 15 15 15
Total Staff FTEs 2 5 10 18 26 29 30 30 30
Student FT PGR ftes 8 12 15 14 21 28 33 33 33
Total Head count (excl MSc/modular) 10 17 25 32 47 57 63 63 63
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Current recruitment status

• Seeking to fill 3 positions at Sr.
  Lecturer/Lecturer level
• Advertised in international journals
• IEEE Spectrum
• Communications of the ACM
• 109 applicants
• 10 shortlisted
• Interviews expected mid March 2005

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Business model
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Business model

• Higher Education Funding Council England HEFCE
• Teaching income
• Research contract and grant income

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Research themes
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Research themes

• Information security
• Cryptography, watermarking, steganography,
  steganalysis
• Information discovery
• Content-based image retrieval, text retrieval
• Information interaction
• Multi-agents, web auctions, relevance feedback
• Information modeling
• Internet topology, autonomous database
  construction

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Research themes

• Establishment of a Centre for Information
  Security Studies (CISS)

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Motivation

• Information security is a critical problem in the
  future development of information and
  communications technology
• Will remain so for the foreseeable future
• Affects
• Government
• E.g. NHS information initiative, Home Office ID
  card
• Business
• E.g. Secure financial processing, e-commerce
• Citizens
• E.g. Identity theft, privacy, trust

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Motivation

• Scope is very broad, including
• Biometric Identification
• Smart Cards
• Cryptography
• Digital Rights Management
• Network Protocols
• Data Forensics
• Usability practicability
• All need to be effectively integrated

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Proposal

• Create an industry-university research consortium
• Funded by industry and other institutions
• Research steered by academic/industrial
  peer-review funding panels
• Currently in discussion with BT

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Postgraduate education
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Postgraduate education

• M.Sc. in Information Security
• Beginning Sept. 2005
• http//infosec.adastral.ucl.ac.uk