Professor Karen Renaud
Professor of Cyber Security at the University of Abertay, and Professor Extraordinarius, University of South Africa
Biography
Karen is a professor of Cyber Security at the University of Abertay, and Professor Extraordinarius, University of South Africa. She is a recipient of various awards including the Fulbright Cyber Security Scholarship.
Her research focuses on human-centred security, a branch of Human Computer Interaction (HCI). She is interested in the interplay between users and security in the context of societal and industrial use. She wants to work towards creating a natural easy yet secure interaction between humans and devices. Her work has a strong development, experimental and deployment focus, testing solutions in practical situations. She has come up with several novel solutions to improve usability in a wide range of situations; and has also done fundamental work in understanding people’s mental models of security in a variety of applications and contexts.
She has a wide range of other interests, including electronic voting, accessible technology, mobile phone design for elderly users, knowledge visualisation and the use of email in organisations.