Nalin Arachchilage
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Bio
Dr Nalin Arachchilage is an Associate Professor in Cyber Security in the School of Computing Technologies at RMIT University, Australia and an Honorary Associate Professor in Cyber Security at the University of Warwick, UK. His primary research interests are at the intersection of computer security, human-computer interaction (HCI), software engineering, gamification, ML/NLP (AI), and Information systems security in an area known as usable security and privacy engineering.
Notably, Nalin's recent work has impacted the software industry globally, improving the OWASP Enterprise Security API and Javadoc for the ESAPI Encoder interface [https://owasp.org]. He presented his research at Facebook Headquarters, Menlo Park, California, USA and collaborated with HP in a research capacity at the HP Lab, Bristol, UK. His research has been featured in numerous media outlets, including Sky News Australia, ABC News Radio, WIN TV Australia, TV One New Zealand (TVNZ 1 News), Radio One 91FM, 2GB 873 AM Radio, SYN Radio 90.7 FM, Daily show on Radio 2SER 107.3, Choice - Australia, Guardian labs (sponsored by Intel Corporation, Australia) and UNSW TV. He has been an invited speaker for conferences both nationally and internationally.
Previously, Dr Arachchilage was a Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security (from 2021 to 2024) at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and a Senior Research Fellow in Cyber Security (from 2019 to 2021) at La Trobe University, Australia. Before joining La Trobe, He worked as a Lecturer in Cyber Security (from 2015 to 2019) and then as a Visiting Researcher (2019 to 2021) in the School of Engineering and Information Technology of the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA), where he led the Usable Security Engineering research group. Dr Arachchilage is currently the Technical Advisor (Board of Advisors) at DEFSAFE Cyber Security Inc., Auckland, New Zealand, and previously held a Chair position of the Academic Board (in Cyber Security) at Canberra Business and Technology College (CBIT) - Australia, Canberra, Australia.
Dr Arachchilage holds a PhD in Computer Science (Cyber Security) from Brunel University London, UK, where he developed a game design framework for teaching people how to protect themselves from phishing attacks. He cut his teeth at Oxford University as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Systems Security Engineering (2013 to 2014) in the Department of Computer Science. Then, he joined the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada, as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Usable Security and Privacy (2014 to 2015). Nalin obtained a BSc (MIS) Hons from University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, and has completed a master's degree, MSc in Information Management and Security at the University of Bedfordshire, UK. Dr Arachchilage is a Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) at Sun Microsystems (now Oracle), USA.
