Associate Professor in Cybersecurity, University of Plymouth
Dr Kimberly Tam is the theme lead for Marine and Maritime in the Data-Centric Engineering at The Alan Turing Institute and Associate Professor at the University of Plymouth. She completed her degree in Computer and System Engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute (United States of America) in 2012 and her PhD in Information Security in 2014 at Royal Holloway University of London (United Kingdom) which included Machine Learning for the analysis and classification of smartphone malware.
She is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Plymouth, she joined in 2017 to help start a new research group around maritime cybersecurity, one of the world’s first. Early work on maritime-cyber risk assessment for ports and ships, including quantifying risk, won the 2019 Lloyd’s Science of Risk Prize and was the foundation for the Riskocity Ltd spin out company. She was the Co-I on an EU Horizon 2020 Project Cyber-MAR and was both Co-I and academic lead of the Research England Cyber-SHIP lab. She is also PI on projects on cyber-resilience of AI being used for autonomous vessels and cyber resilience of offshore wind.