Ali Padyab

Ali Padyab is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Information Technology at the School of Informatics, University of Skövde. He serves as program coordinator for the Master's program in Privacy, Information, and Cybersecurity and leads research projects on cybersecurity economic models (funded by MSB) and socio-economic determinants of cybercrime (funded by VR).

His research spans privacy, cybersecurity, IoT privacy, information security management, cloud risk assessment, remote work security challenges, and AI-driven cyber threat intelligence. Key projects include IoTLab, Mobile Shield, USEMP, Privacy Flag, U4IoT, and UNALAB.

• 2012-2015: TG4NP
• 2014-2015: IoTLab
• 2014-2017: USEMP
• 2015-2018: Privacy Flag
• 2018-2020: UNALAB
• 2023-2025: Cybercrime study
• 2024-2029: Cybersecurity Economic Models

His publications analyze cybersecurity challenges in contact tracing systems, IoT privacy, blockchain security, and AI applications in threat intelligence. Current projects focus on socio-economic factors in cybercrime and economic models for cybersecurity adoption.