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
- Hodges D & Paxton-Fear K. (2022). An analysis of the writing of ‘suicide cult’ members. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 37(1)
- Belen Saglam R, 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. (2021). Cyber-enabled burglary of smart homes. Computers & Security, 110(November)
- Hodges D & Buckley O. (2019). 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. (2018). 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, Stanton Fraser D, .... (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)
Conference Papers
- Collyer J, Andrew A & Hodges D. (2022). ACD-G: Enhancing autonomous cyber defense agent generalization through graph embedded network representation
- Belen Saglam R, Nurse JRC & Hodges D. (2021). Privacy Concerns in Chatbot Interactions: When to Trust and When to Worry
- Buckley O, Nurse JRC, Wyer N, Dawes H, Hodges D, .... (2021). Sharing Secrets with Agents: Improving Sensitive Disclosures Using Chatbots
- Paxton-Fear K, Hodges D & Buckley O. (2020). Understanding Insider Threat Attacks Using Natural Language Processing: Automatically Mapping Organic Narrative Reports to Existing Insider Threat Frameworks
- Williams E, Slade E, Hodges D & Morgan P. (2020). Individual differences in the adoption and secure use of smart home technology
- Hodges D & Buckley O. (2017). Its Not All About the Money: Self-efficacy and Motivation in Defensive and Offensive Cyber Security Professionals
- Buckley O, Hodges D, Hadgkiss M & Morris S. (2017). Keystroke Inference Using Smartphone Kinematics
- Buckley O & Hodges D. (2016). User Identification Using Games
- Doodson J, Hodges D, Whitty M & Creese S. (2014). Does personality and security expertise predict password strength?
- Scholtz J, Love O, Whiting M, Hodges D, Emanuel L, .... (2014). Utility evaluation of models
- Whitty M, Doodson J, Creese S & Hodges D. (2014). Image Choice to Represent the Self in Different Online Environments
- Creese S, Gibson-Robinson T, Goldsmith M, Hodges D, Kim D, .... (2013). Tools for understanding identity
- Whitty MT, Creese S & Hodges D. (2013). Who's Making Security Risks Online?
- Hodges D & Creese S. (2013). Building a better intelligence machine: A new approach to capability review and development
- Hodges D & Creese S. (2013). Breaking the Arc: Risk control for Big Data
- Emanuel L, Bevan C & Hodges D. (2013). What does your profile really say about you?
- Creese S, Hodges D, Jamison-Powell S & Whitty M. (2013). Relationships between Password Choices, Perceptions of Risk and Security Expertise
- Hodges D, Nurse J, Goldsmith M & Creese S. (2012). Identity attribution across cyberspace and the natural space
- Hodges D, Creese S & Goldsmith M. (2012). A Model for Identity in the Cyber and Natural Universes
- Watson RJ & Hodges DD. (2009). Estimation of rainfall rate from terrestrial microwave link measurements
- Watson RJ & Hodges DD. (2009). Real-time propagation forecasting for Earth-space communication
- Hodges DD & Watson R. (2008). A technique for reconstructing two-dimensional rainfall fields from terrestrial microwave links
- Townsend AJ & Hodges DD. (2008). Determining probabilistic attenuation forecasts to account for raindrop size distribution variability on Earth-Space links
- Watson RJ & Hodges DD. (2007). On the use of ECMWF-scale meteorological estimates for statistical and real-time radiowave propagation prediction
- Hodges DD & Watson RJ. (2007). Site diversity provision at 20.7 GHZ
- Hodges DD & Watson RJ. (2007). The accuracy of a radiowave simulation model at 20.7 GHz
- Watson RJ & Hodges DD. (2006). Some observations on the spatial and temporal scaling properties of rain
- Hodges DD & Watson RJ. (2006). Initial comparisons of forecast attenuation and beacon measurements at 20 and 40 GHz
- Hodges D & Watson R. (2006). The application of NWP techniques for the forecasting of attenuation time series at 30/40 GHz
- Hodges DD, Watson RJ & Paulson KS. (2005). Techniques for the spatial downscaling of rain for application in SHF propagation modelling
- Watson RJ & Hodges DD. (2005). A real-time SHF propagation forecasting system using numerical weather predictions and radar measurements
- Hodges D, Watson R, Page A & Watson P. (2003). Generation of attenuation time-series for EHF satcom simulation
- Gremont B, Watson R, Watson P & Hodges D. (2003). Modelling and Detection of Rain Attenuation for MF-TDMA Satellite Networks Utilizing Fade Mitigation Techniques
