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Biography
Annabelle McIver trained as a mathematician at Cambridge and Oxford Universities. Her research uses mathematics to analyse security flaws in computer systems.
Annabelle has had a number of international visiting positions and fellowships at institutions such as MIT (USA), Birmingham (UK), LRI and INRIA (France), ETH Zurich, and was a Junior Research Fellow in Mathematics at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She is a member of the Programming Methodology technical working group of the International Federation of Information Processing. She was (co-) recipient of th 2014 Best Cybersecurity Research Paper awarded by the US National Security Agency.
More about her research activities can be found at the Topete Research Group.
Research interests
Program verification, quantitative information flow, computer security, privacy.
Education/Academic qualification
Mathematics, DPhil, Finitely Generated Non-Hopf Modules, University of Oxford
Award Date: 1 Jul 1990
Mathematics, BA (Double First), University of Cambridge
Award Date: 1 Jul 1985
External positions
Visiting Researcher, ETH Zurich
15 Jul 2016 → 31 Dec 2016
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DFCRC: Digital Finance CRC Industrial PhD Scholarship - Thisal DE SILVA
McIver, A., DE SILVA, T., Asghar, H. & Bandara, D.
1/07/24 → 30/06/28
Project: Research
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MRFF DoH (Usyd led): AIS-SHIELDS: Securing Health Intelligence Effors & Linking Data Silos
Sullivan, R., Galloway, G., Calamante, F., Close, T., Abramson, D., Soyer , H., Fernández-Peñas, P., Janda, M., Caffery, L., Dras, M., McIver, A., Barnett, M., Wang, C., Shieh, C., Pardey, M., Pope, B., Ward, N., Jakrot, V., Ferguson, P. M. & Price, G.
30/06/23 → 30/08/26
Project: Research
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LP21: Robust and Scalable Autonomous Landing for Drones
Han, R., McIver, A., Zheng, J., Houston, R. & Kallinen, V.
16/08/22 → 17/08/25
Project: Research
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Explaining ε in local differential privacy through the lens of quantitative information flow
Fernandes, N., McIver, A. & Sadeghi, P., 2024, 2024 IEEE 37th Computer Security Foundations Symposium CSF 2024: proceedings. Piscataway, NJ: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), p. 419-432 14 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution › peer-review
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The privacy-utility trade-off in the topics API
Alvim, M. S., Fernandes, N., McIver, A. & Nunes, G. H., 2024, CCS '24: proceedings of the 2024 on ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, p. 1106-1120 15 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution › peer-review
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A novel analysis of utility in privacy pipelines, using Kronecker products and quantitative information flow
Alvim, M. S., Fernandes, N., McIver, A., Morgan, C. & Nunes, G. H., 2023, CCS '23: proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, p. 1718-1731 14 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution › peer-review
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A quantitative information flow analysis of the topics API
Alvim, M. S., Fernandes, N., McIver, A. & Nunes, G. H., 2023, WPES '23: proceedings of the 22nd Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, p. 123-127 5 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution › peer-review
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Universal optimality and robust utility bounds for metric differential privacy
Fernandes, N., McIver, A., Palamidessi, C. & Ding, M., 2023, In: Journal of Computer Security. 31, 5, p. 539-580 42 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference paper › peer-review
2 Citations (Scopus)
Prizes
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Distinguished paper award at Computer Security Foundations Conference (joint)
McIver, Annabelle (Recipient), 1 Jul 2024
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Winner - Faculty of Science and Engineering Award for Inter-School Collaboration - 2023
Nayak, Abhaya (Recipient), Mahmood, Adnan (Recipient), Beheshti, Amin (Recipient), McIver, Annabelle (Recipient), Bilgin, Ayse (Recipient), Liquet-Weiland, Benoit (Recipient), Svensson, Carl (Recipient), Ramakrishnan, Charanya (Recipient), Smith, Connor (Recipient), Molla-Aliod, Diego (Recipient), Vatsalan, Dinusha (Recipient), Xue, Emma (Recipient), Gupta, Gaurav (Recipient), Sofronov, Georgy (Recipient), Baker, Greg (Recipient), Liu, Guanfeng (Recipient), Asghar, Hassan (Recipient), Doosti, Hassan (Recipient), Zhu, Houying (Recipient), Jiang, Iris (Recipient), Zheng, James (Recipient), Lin, Huan (Recipient), Wu, Jia (Recipient), Ma, Jun (Recipient), Binkowski, Karol (Recipient), Dras, Mark (Recipient), Manuguerra, Maurizio (Recipient), Orgun, Mehmet (Recipient), Lay, Michael (Recipient), Zou, Nan (Recipient), Kordzakhia, Nino (Recipient), Busch, Peter (Recipient), Graham, Petra (Recipient), Schwitter, Rolf (Recipient), Chen, Shan (Recipient), Smith, Stephen (Recipient), Cassidy, Steve (Recipient), Prvan, Tania (Recipient), Fung, Thomas (Recipient), Li, Yan (Recipient), Wang, Yan (Recipient), Zhang, Yang (Recipient) & Zhou, Yipeng (Recipient), 2023
Prize: Other distinction
Activities
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Mário S. Alvim
Annabelle McIver (Host)
3 Jun 2019 → 25 Jun 2019Activity: Hosting a visitor › Hosting an academic visitor
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Marta Kwiatkowska
Annabelle McIver (Host)
29 Apr 2019 → 30 Apr 2019Activity: Hosting a visitor › Hosting an academic visitor
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Proofs for differential privacy
Annabelle McIver (Speaker)
1 Dec 2019 → 4 Dec 2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Third World Congress on Formal Methods
Annabelle McIver (Participant)
7 Oct 2019 → 11 Oct 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising a conference, workshop or event series
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Experiments in information flow
Annabelle McIver (Speaker)
7 Oct 2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Press/Media
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Socially responsible technology
12/08/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities