Andrew McCarthy

Dr Andrew McCarthy is a Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol), affiliated with the School of Computing and Creative Technologies. He serves as Programme Leader for the BSc(Hons) Cyber Security and Digital Forensics course.

• Education: Ph.D. in Computer Science (UWE), M.Sc. in Cyber Security (Distinction, UWE), B.Sc. in Computing for Real-time Systems (UWE), Postgraduate Certificates in Computing (Open University) and Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (UWE)

His research focuses on adversarial machine learning and secure AI systems, particularly methods to improve robustness against adversarial examples and decision-making in human-machine teams. He brings industry experience from companies like Intel Corp and LogicaCMG to his teaching, which covers programming, machine learning, cyber security, and critical systems security.

He holds professional membership with the Association for Computing Machinery and contributes to practical education through UWE's forensic computer labs equipped with tools like EnCase and Autopsy, as well as dedicated isolation and networks labs.