Emil Lupu

Professor Emil Lupu is a Professor of Computer Systems at the Department of Computing, Imperial College London. He leads the Resilient Information Systems Security Group and serves as Co-Director of the National Research Institute in Trustworthy Inter-Connected Cyber-Physical Systems (RITICS). As a Security Science Fellow at Imperial’s Institute for Security Science and Technology, his work bridges academic research with real-world security challenges.

Education:

• PhD in Computing, Imperial College London (1994–1998)

His research focuses on security and resilience of cyber-physical systems (CPS), with emphasis on defending against data spoofing attacks, adversarial machine learning, and IoT vulnerabilities. He pioneered the Ponder policy systems for access control and the Self-Managed Cell framework for autonomic computing, and developed Bayesian Attack Graphs for scalable risk assessment in CPS.

Recent publications highlight trends in adversarial robustness (2025–2022), including LIDAR spoofing defense for autonomous vehicles, LLM security, and attack graph analysis for IoT. His work explores the intersection of safety and security, applying model-checking to identify adversarial threats in train control, microgrids, and aviation systems.

Scientific Awards:

• Security Science Fellowship, Imperial College London (2011–present)

As co-founder of the PETRAS National Centre of Excellence in IoT Cybersecurity (2016–2021), he advanced security methodologies for interconnected systems. His collaborations with institutions like the Cyber Security Body of Knowledge (CyBoK) demonstrate his leadership in shaping cybersecurity research standards.

Current projects include the RITICS Institute, focusing on trustworthy cyber-physical systems, and exploring generative AI for security poisoning with practical defenses against adversarial ML.