Rate My Professor Carsten Maple

Professor Carsten Maple is Professor of Cyber Systems Engineering and Director of Research in Cyber Security at the Cyber Security Centre within Warwick Manufacturing Group at the University of Warwick. He is the Principal Investigator for the NCSC-EPSRC Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research. In 2019, he was appointed Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor (North America) for the University. Previously, Maple served as Professor of Applicable Computing and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research and Enterprise) at the University of Bedfordshire. He earned his BSc (Hons) in Mathematics from the University of Leicester in 1994 and his PhD in 1998. Maple is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and Vice Chair of the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing in the UK. His career includes extensive experience in institutional strategy development and collaboration with external agencies across sectors such as manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, and the public sector.

Maple has authored over 250 peer-reviewed papers, amassing more than 14,000 citations on Google Scholar. Key publications include 'Cyber security in the age of COVID-19: A timeline and analysis of cyber-crime and cyber-attacks during the pandemic' (Computers & Security, 2021, cited over 1,000 times), 'Security and privacy in the internet of things' (Journal of Cyber Policy, 2017, cited 477 times), 'Synthetic Data—what, why and how?' (arXiv, 2022, cited 487 times), and 'SAFA: A semi-asynchronous protocol for fast federated learning with low overhead' (IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2020, cited 515 times). He co-authored the UK Security Breach Investigations Report 2010, supported by the Serious Organised Crime Agency and Police Central e-crime Unit, and Cyberstalking in the UK, supported by the Crown Prosecution Service and Network for Surviving Stalking. His research specializations encompass cyber security, digital identity, trustworthy digital identity systems, synthetic data, privacy-enhancing technologies, online harms, anonymity, and child safety online. Maple has given evidence to UK government committees on anonymity and child safety online and collaborates with the Association of Chief Police Officers, College of Policing, Interpol, and the Equality and Human Rights Commission. He advises executive and non-executive directors of public sector and multibillion-pound private organizations on cyber challenges.