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Welcome! I have been working for the past years on the general topic of systems modelling and quantitative impact on dependability, i.e., availability, reliability, maintenance, performance, safety and security (plus confidentiality, integrity and non repudiation).

I am currently working at Aston University as a Lecturer in Software Engineering & Cybersecurity within the School of Computer Science and Digital Technologies.

I chiefly investigate dependability + cyber security, modelling and simulation, and Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) in smart and critical infrastructure.

My Google Developer profile is https://g.dev/czekster

Check my Pure profile at Aston for my latest research outcomes.

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Research

This is what currently interests me in research:

Engagements

• Book reviewer and work on conferences and workshops
• General Co-Chair (with Dr Paolo Milazzo, University of Pisa, Italy) in 12^th International Symposium DataMod 2024: From Data to Models and Back - Joint event with SEFM 2024
• Publicity Chair, 1^st International Conference on Computing, Communication, Cybersecurity & AI (The C3AI 2023)
• PC Member, 15^th International Workshop on Software Aging and Rejuvenation 2023 - Joint event with ISSRE 2023
• PC Member, 11^th International Symposium DataMod 2023: From Data to Models and Back - Joint event with SEFM 2023
• Technical reviewer, Math for Security: From Graphs and Geometry to Spatial Analysis, by Daniel Reilly (NoStarch press - September 2023)
• Technical Program Committee, UKCI'2023, The 22^nd UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence
• Co-Program Chair, WoSAR'2022, The 14^th Workshop on Software Aging and Rejuvenation
• Program Committee, WPerformance within SBC - Brazilian Computing Society, 2013-2019
• Finance Chair, ICGSE'2012, The 7^th IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering
• Journals
• Associate editor, Iran Journal of Computer Science (Springer), since 2017
• Editorial board member, International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology (IJCAT), 2015-2019
• Reviewer (check also my Web of Science or ORCID profile under "Peer Review" section)
• IEEE Software
• Business Process Management Journal (Emerald Publishing)
• Current World Environment
• Energies (MDPI)
• Enterprise Information Systems (Taylor & Francis)
• Information Processing & Management (Elsevier)

Professional memberships

I'm a member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Please find my profile information here.

I am also an active member of The Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP).