Meet The Team

Professor Yiannis Papadopoulos

Professor of Computer Science and lead of the Dependable Intelligent Systems Group. His research focuses on safety and dependability of complex and AI-enabled systems.

Dr Koorosh Aslansefat

Assistant Professor and Co-Lead of the Dependable Intelligent Systems Group. His work focuses on dependable AI, explainability, and anomaly detection in intelligent systems.

Dr David Parker

Senior Lecturer at the University of Hull and Director of Education in the School of Digital and Physical Sciences. His work includes software engineering, computing education, and academic leadership.

Dr Zhibao Mian

He is the lead in AI for Safety theme. Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Hull. His research includes Safety Engineering, trustworthy AI and advanced computing systems.​​​

Dr Kay Atefi

Programme Director and Lecturer in Cyber Security at the University of Hull. His work focuses on cyber defence and threat intelligence, anomaly analysis for intrusion detection systems (IDS), and digital forensic investigation (DFI).​

Dr Debarati Chakraborty

Lecturer in Computer Science.  Her research interests is within AI, including, generative AI, ethical AI, rough sets, granular computing, video processing, multimodal AI, reinforcement learning, uncertainty modelling, robot vision, and edge AI. ​​

Dr Funmilola Fagbola

She is a Cybersecurity Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Hull.  Her research focuses particularly on AI and LLM security, digital forensic readiness, and the security of emerging technologies. 

Connor Walker

PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Hull. His research focuses on data-driven intelligent alarm systems and the application of artificial intelligence to offshore wind maintenance applications.

Razieh Arshadizadeh

PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Hull. Her research covers runtime safety and security of systems of systems, Edge AI, and federated learning. She also contributes to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion activities.​

Louis Donaldson

PhD student with a background in computer science, distributed systems, and AI. He works across software and intelligent systems research using modern programming tools. His profile highlights interests in advanced computing and applied artificial intelligence.

Ayoola Adowu

PhD researcher in computer science and AI. His research focuses on developing methods to mitigate hallucinations in Large Language Model (LLM)-based autonomous driving scenario generation. His work integrates trustworthy AI, and  realism of AI-generated driving scenarios for testing and validation.

Parvin Ghaffarzadeh

PhD Student and Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Hull. Her research combines wearable sensors, machine learning, edge AI, federated learning and explainable AI to develop efficient, trustworthy systems for monitoring human movement and lower-limb loading.

Mohadeseh Mollapour 

PhD student funded by the AURA CDT at the University of Hull. Her research focuses on concept-based explainability, explainability audits, statistical analysis, and safety monitoring methods for offshore wind turbines, supporting reliable, transparent, and safe operation systems.

Martin Walker

Senior Researcher specialising in safety engineering and system modelling. He has played a key role in developing several reliability, safety, risk and hazard analysis and modelling tools, including HiP-HOPS, Pandora, and Dymodia, supporting dependable system design.

Mahmoud Asgari

Researcher in Artificial Intelligence. His work focuses on artificial intelligence research and the development and application of intelligent computational methods, models, and systems for practical real-world problems, Federated Learning, EdgeAI and applications.