Tharmini Janarthanan

Tharmini Janarthanan is a Lecturer in Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics at the School of Computing and Digital Technologies, Sheffield Hallam University. With over five years of industry experience as an Information Security Professional in Malaysia, she specializes in Information, Technology, and Privacy Risk Management for the Financial Industry. Certified as an ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, she integrates industry insights into academic teaching and research. Her research focuses on digital forensics, including mobile, cloud, and memory forensics, alongside cybersecurity policies and machine learning applications in forensics.

Education:

• BSc (Hons)
• MSc

Research Interests:

• Forensic methodologies for emerging technologies (e.g., robots, metaverse)
• Privacy policies in cloud environments
• Application of VR in cybersecurity training
• Data mining and machine learning for anomaly detection

Tharmini has published in international journals and conferences, including work on forensic investigations in robotics and feature selection in cybersecurity datasets. She actively advocates for women in STEM through roles like Academic Lead for CyberWomen@SHU and participation in the Yorkshire Cybersecurity Cluster Steering Committee.