Professor Steven Murdoch | |
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Born | Steven James Murdoch |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Known for | Tor project[3][5] EMV/Chip and PIN[3][6] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Security Privacy Anonymous communication[1][2] Chip and PIN Europay, Master and Visa (EMV)[3] |
Institutions | Computer Science Department, University College London |
Thesis | Covert channel vulnerabilities in anonymity systems (2008) |
Doctoral advisor | Markus Kuhn[4] |
Website | murdoch |
Steven James Murdoch FBCS FIET is Professor of Security Engineering[7] in the Computer Science Department, University College London.[7] His research covers privacy-enhancing technology, Internet censorship,[8] and anonymous communication, in particular Tor.[9][10] He is also known for discovering several vulnerabilities in the EMV bank chipcard payment system (Chip and PIN)[3][11][12][13] and for creating Tor Browser.[14][15]
Murdoch was educated at the University of Cambridge completing a PhD on computer security supervised by Markus Kuhn in 2008.[2] In March 2022, he joined the board of Open Rights Group.[16][17]
He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.[7] He received the 2008 ERCIM Security and Trust Management Working Group Award for his PhD thesis "Covert channel vulnerabilities in anonymity systems".[18]. In 2012 he was appointed as a Royal Society University Research Fellow.[19]