Dr David Evans
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Job title: Lecturer in Computer Networks and Security
Email: d.f.evans@derby.ac.uk
Phone No: +44 (0)1332 591691
Room: E511
Recent publications
• Evans, D., Eyers, D.M., and Bacon, J. "A model of Information Flow Control to determine whether malfunctions cause the privacy invasion," Proceedings of the EuroSys 2012 Workshop on Measurement, Privacy, and Mobility, Bern, April 2012.
• Hosek, P, Miglivacca, M., Papagiannis, I., Eyers, D.M., Evans, D., Shand, B., Bacon, J., Pietzuch, P. " SafeWeb : A Middleware for Securing Ruby-based Web Applications," Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 12th International Middleware Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, November 2011.
• Rathfelder, C., Kounev, S., and Evans, D. "Capacity planning for event-based systems using automated performance predictions," Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, Kansas, USA, November 2011.
• Bacon, J., Evans, D., Eyers, D.M., Miglivacca, M., Pietzuch, P., and Shand, B. "Enforcing end-to-end application security in the cloud," Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 11th International Middleware Conference, Bangalore, India, November 2010, 293-312.
• Bejan, A., Gibbens, R., Evans, D., Beresford, A., Bacon, J., and Friday, A. "Statistical modelling and analysis of sparse bus probe data in urban areas," Proceedings of the 13th IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Madeira, Portugal, September 2010, 1256-1263.
Faculty: Business, Computing and Law
School: School of Computing and Mathematics
Subject Area: Computer Science
Supporting the Faculty and School Vision
I started with the School of Computing and Mathematics in March 2012. My teaching and research focuses on systems, particularly networks, security, privacy, and means to describe policy and intent via programming languages, protocol design, and system architecture.
Research interests
I am interested in how software uses increasing amounts of information about the physical world. This is necessary in order to provide responsive systems that adapt to individuals' behaviour and preferences but can lead to dangerous privacy invasion. Furthermore it can provide adversaries with the exact tools they need to compromise an organisation's security and makes it difficult to formally reason about the data that leads to software's actions. My work helps address this balance, building systems having the benefits of personalised responsiveness without the dangers inherent in collecting personal information.
Membership of professional bodies and advisory committees
BCS, IEEE, ACM
Recent Conferences
- EuroSys 2012 Workshop on Measurement, Privacy, and Mobility, April 2012
- ACM/IFIP/USENIX 12th International Middleware Conference, December 2011
- PriMo2011: First International Workshop on Mobile Privacy Management, June 2011
- The Internet of Things for a Sustainable Future: ESF Exploratory Workshop, May 2011
- IEEE International Symposium on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks, July 2010
Additional Interests and Activities
- System performance evaluation and resource allocation
- Systems and networking issues in creative and entertainment software (multimedia production, online games)
- Social and legal issues of digitalisation
- The hardware/software interface, co-design, and implications for software policy
- Music synthesis and user interfaces for live performance; systems and hardware issues related to this
Undergraduate qualifications
- BA English, University of Guelph
- BSc Computing and Information Science, University of Guelph
Postgraduate qualifications
- MMath, Computer Science, University of Waterloo
Research qualifications
- PhD, Computer Science, University of Waterloo
