Thomas Tan

Dr. Thomas Tan is an Associate Professor at the School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment, Edinburgh Napier University. Specializing in Cybersecurity, Internet of Things, and Machine Learning, he leads cutting-edge research in secure distributed systems and edge computing.

• Focus on federated learning security, malware classification, and vehicular network trust models
• Recipient of National Research Award 2017 (Oman) and SICSA Supervisor of the Year Honourable Mention
• Supervises PhD/MSc students in topics ranging from cyberbullying detection to blockchain authentication

His 117+ research outputs include IEEE journal articles on UAV task scheduling, graph neural network security, and privacy-preserving IoT frameworks. Active grants cover federated unlearning evaluation (Carnegie Trust £73,564) and AI-driven cybersecurity collaboration (SICSA £2,000).