Areas of expertise
- Communications Systems
- Defence Info Systems
Background
Dr Duncan Hodges received his PhD from the University of Bath in 2006 and since then has worked as a Researcher in The Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Bath, a Technology Researcher for the UK Government, a Researcher in the Cyber Security Centre at The University of Oxford, before joining Cranfield as a Senior Lecturer in the Information Operations Group.
This background has given Duncan the ability to deliver technically challenging, high-risk research which provides genuine, tangible benefit and impact.
Duncan currently holds an ESRC NCRM Fellowship on Digital Identity and is a visitor at the Alan Turing Institute, the national centre for data science and artificial intelligence.
Current activities
Research
My research focusses on a number of topics including:
Identity in cyber and natural spaces
Offensive cyber activity and Information warfare
Applications of Natural Language Processing in Cybersecurity
I have a number of funded PhD students working on a variety of these topics including the Agent-Based modelling of Offensive Actors in Cyberspace and Natural Language Processing to help the understanding of the Insider Threat.
In addition, I am the lead PI on an EPSRC project entitled 'People Powered for Desirable Social Outcomes', I am also a CO-I on an EPSRC project looking at enabling sensitive disclosures through the use of conversational agents.
I have two projects awarded through the Centre for Research and Evidence in Security Threats commissioning process, one considering information leakage and identity cues through how individuals interact with devices and the second considering how the smart home enables traditional crimes.
Teaching
Critical Networks and Cyber-Physical Systems
Cyber Attacks, Threats and Opportunities
Clients
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Economic and Social Research Council - National Centre for Research Methods
Centre for Research and Evidence in Security Threats
Innovate UK
Defence Science and Technology Labs
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Saglam RB, Nurse JRC & Hodges D. (2022). Personal information: perceptions, types and evolution. Journal of Information Security and Applications, 66(May)
- Buckley O, Hodges D, Windle J & Earl S. (2022). Clicka: Collecting and leveraging identity cues with keystroke dynamics. Computers & Security, 120(September)
- Belen-Saglam R, Nurse JRC & Hodges D. (2022). An investigation into the sensitivity of personal information and implications for disclosure: a UK perspective. Frontiers in Computer Science, 4
- Hodges D & Paxton-Fear K. (2021). An analysis of the writing of ‘suicide cult’ members. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 37(1)
- Hodges D. (2021). Cyber-enabled burglary of smart homes. Computers & Security, 110(November)
- Hodges D & Buckley O. (2018). Reconstructing what you said: Text Inference using Smartphone Motion. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 18(4)
- Hodges D & Buckley O. (2018). Deconstructing who you play: character choice in online gaming. Entertainment Computing, 27
- Whitty MT, Doodson J, Creese S & Hodges D. (2017). A picture tells a thousand words: what Facebook and Twitter images convey about our personality. Personality and Individual Differences, 133
- Whitty M, Doodson J, Creese S & Hodges D. (2015). Individual Differences in Cyber Security Behaviors: An Examination of Who Is Sharing Passwords. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 18(1)
- Bruce J, Scholtz J, Hodges D, Emanuel L, Fraser DS, .... (2014). Pathways to identity: using visualization to aid law enforcement in identification tasks. Security Informatics, 3(1)
- Hodges DD & Watson RJ. (2009). An Analysis of Conditional Site Diversity: A Study at Ka-Band. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 57(3)
- Townsend AJ, Watson RJ & Hodges DD. (2009). Analysis of the Variability in the Raindrop Size Distribution and Its Effect on Attenuation at 20-40 GHz. IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, 8
- Hodges DD, Watson RJ & Wyman G. (2006). An Attenuation Time Series Model for Propagation Forecasting. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 54(6)
