Ricardo M. Czekster is a Lecturer in Software Engineering & Cybersecurity at Aston University since Jan/2022.

His previous appointments include eight years teaching computing in Higher Education Institutes (HEI) in Brazil such as Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUC-RS) and Feevale University. He has taught modules such as Introduction to Programming, Object Oriented Programming, Performance Evaluation (Modelling & Simulation), Cybersecurity, and Software Design.

Besides teaching, Ricardo worked after his PhD at Siemens Corporate Research in Princeton (USA) during 2010 and also as Research Associate in Newcastle University (2019-2021).

In terms of research funding, he was awarded international grants and acted as co-PI at the Newton Research Collaboration Programme (grant number NRCP1617/5/62) in 2016/2017, a joint work with Dr Juliana Bowles (University of St Andrews, Scotland) and also on Brazilian funded research projects (Edital Universal 2016 - CNPq - grant number 403294/2016-9).

More information on my departmental website, Google Scholar, ResearchGate or LinkedIn.

PhD: Mar/2006 to Mar/2010, PUCRS, Brazil

MSc: Mar/2004 to Jan/2010, PUCRS, Brazil

BSc: Mar/1998 to Aug/2002, PUCRS, Brazil

• Jan/2022 - present: Lecturer in Computer Science, Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom
• Aug/2019 to Dec/2021: Research Associate, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
• Fev/2014 to Jan/2019: Associate Lecturer in Computing, University of Santa Cruz, RS/BR
• Mar/2011 to Jan/2014: Associate Lecturer in Computing, PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
• Jun/2010 to Dec/2010: Researcher, Siemens Corporate Research (SCR), Princeton, USA
• Mar/2010 to Jun/2010: Assistant Lecturer in Computing, Feevale University, Novo Hamburgo, Brazil

Dr Czekster's main research interests verse on resilient and trustworthy Cyber-Physical Systems, embedded cyber-security in SDLC, Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), threat modelling, and dependability.

I am a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) since January 2022. Please, check my ACM Author Profile Page.

I am an Associate Editor at Iran Journal of Computer Science, and reviewer for distinguished journals.

My teaching allocation is:

• 2023/2024 (TP1)
  • CS3SP Secure Programming :: with Dr Vitor Jesus
• 2022/2023 (TP2)
  • CS32SS Delivering Secure Software :: with Dr Zhuangzhuang Dai
  • CS32SG Security, Governance, Risk Management & Policy :: with Dr Paul Grace
• 2022/2023 (TP1)
  • CS31SP Secure Programming :: with Dr Michal Konecny
• 2021/2022 (TP2):
  • CS2PLC Programming Language Concepts :: with Dr Michal Konecny
  • CS32SG Security, Governance, Risk Management & Policy :: with Dr Paul Grace and Dr James Borg
  • CS4820 Reliability in Software Engineering (MSc) :: with Ms Abinaya Sowriraghavan

• Aston related duties
  • Deputy System Administrator (since 2022)
• Committees on Workshops, Symposia, and Conferences
  • PC Member, International Symposium - DataMod: From Data to Models and Back (2016-current)
  • PC Co-Chair, DataMod'24
  • Publicity Chair, 1^st International Conference on Computing, Communication, Cybersecurity & AI (The C3AI 2023)
  • PC Member, International Workshop on Software Aging and Rejuvenation (2018-current)

Dr Ricardo Melo Czekster - r.meloczekster@aston.ac.uk

Lecturer in Software Engineering and Cybersecurity, Aston University

College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, School of Computer Science & Digital Technologies, Department of Software Engineering and Cybersecurity

Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK

Room MB211D

Phone +44 (0) 121 204 4544