Chris Hankin

Co-Director, Institute for Security Science and Technology, Imperial College London

Professor Hankin joined Imperial College London in 1984 and was promoted to Professor in 1995.  He is Co-Director of the Institute for Security Science and Technology.  His research is in theoretical computer science, cyber security and data analytics. He leads multidisciplinary projects focussed on developing advanced visual analytics and providing better decision support to defend against cyber attacks.

He is Director of the UK’s Research Institute on Trustworthy Industrial Control Systems. He is the immediate past President of the Scientific Council of INRIA, the French national institute for research in computer science and control.  He is Chair of the UK’s Academic Resilience and Security Community (Academic RiSC) and sits on the ministerial oversight group of the Security and Resilience Growth Partnership.   He was Vice Chair of the DG CONNECT Advisory Forum for the European Commission until 2015, having previously been a member of ISTAG for two successive terms.

He is Chair of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Europe Council.  He is also a member of the ACM Publications Board.