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Professor David Eyers is a Professor in the School of Computing at the University of Otago, having joined the institution as a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science in 2011, which transitioned to the School of Computing in 2023. He holds a combined undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering and Pure Mathematics from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and a PhD from the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, with his thesis titled "Active Privilege Management for Distributed Access Control." Prior to Otago, Eyers was a senior research associate at Cambridge and held two postdoctoral positions there, including one on contract-driven architectures influencing interests in policy compliance checking and deontic logic, and another on the UK EPSRC SmartFlow project developing decentralised information flow control for secure information flow within a UK National Health Service cancer registry.
Eyers' research specializations include security enforcement and data dissemination mechanisms within wide-area distributed systems, event-based middleware, role-based access control, decentralised information flow control, cloud and operating system security, information provenance, hardware capabilities, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and eResearch. Key publications encompass SafeWeb (Middleware 2010), FlowWatcher (CCS 2015), SCONE (OSDI 2016), CamFlow (CCS 2018), CapVMs (OSDI 2022), and recent contributions such as SUSS: Improving TCP performance by speeding up slow-start (ACM SIGCOMM 2024) and AI content detection in the emerging information ecosystem (Ethics & Information Technology, 2024). His work has received over 5,900 citations according to Google Scholar. Eyers serves as an elected member of the University Council for 2025–2029, on the Appeals Board, Finance and Budget Committee, Health and Safety Committee, and as a director of the New Zealand eScience Infrastructure advisory board. He helped establish the University's Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Public Policy, remaining on its steering committee, and contributes to steering committees for ACM Middleware and ACM DEBS conferences, having co-organized Dagstuhl seminars on accountable systems and event-based systems.
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