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 Professor 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 website, Google Scholar, ResearchGate or LinkedIn.

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

MSc: Mar/2004 to Jan/2006, 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
• 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 dynamic risk assessment, attack modelling techniques, threat modelling, and analysis tools to investigate resilient and trustworthy Cyber-Physical Systems.

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

Since December 2023 I am a member of Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP).

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

Teaching allocation:

• DG4AEH Advanced Ethical Hacking
  • 2025/2026
• CS3RMP Security, Governance, Risk Management & Policy
  • 2022/2023, 2023/2024, 2024/2025, 2025/2026
• CS3SP Secure Programming
  • 2022/2023, 2023/2024, 2024/2025, 2025/2026
• CS3SS Delivering Secure Software
  • 2022/2023, 2023/2024, 2025/2026
• CS2PLC Programming Language Concepts
  • 2021/2022
• CS4820 Reliability in Software Engineering (MSc)
  • 2021/2022

• 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 (2018-2023)

Dr Ricardo Melo Czekster - [email protected]

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