My profile

Biography

Thomas joined the Department of Computing and Mathematics in 2016. He previously worked at Khalifa University, UAE.

Interests and expertise

Thomas’s research interests include:

  • Blockchains
  • Cryptocurrency
  • Darknet activity
  • Digital Forensics
  • Cyber Security

Teaching

Units developed and taught include:

  • Applied Blockchain Technology (MSc)
  • Network and Internet Forensics (BSc)
  • Principles and Practices of Digital Forensics (MSc)
  • Cryptography and Applications (MSc)
  • Advanced Network Security (MSc)
  • Computer Security Fundamentals (BSc)

I have supervised a variety of Undergrad, Masters, and PhD projects, on topics such as:

  • Blockchains
  • Smart Contracts
  • Cryptojacking
  • Memory Forensics
  • Authentication
  • Hacking Tools
  • Cryptography
  • Smartphone Forensics and Security
  • Deep fakes

Research outputs

Thomas’s research interests include:

  • Blockchains
  • Cryptocurrency
  • Darknet activity
  • Digital Forensics
  • Cyber Security
  • Chapters in books

    Martin, T.A. (2013) 'Cryptography for the Forensics Investigator.' Theory and Practice of Cryptography Solutions for Secure Information Systems. IGI Global,

  • Journal articles

    Martin, T.A., Jones, A., AlZaabi, M. (2017) 'The 2016 Analysis of Information Remaining on Computer Hard Disks Offered for Sale on the Second Hand Market in the UAE.' Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law, 11(4)

    Albelooshi, B., Damiani, E., Salah, K., Martin, T. (2016) 'Securing Cryptographic Keys in the Cloud: A Survey.' IEEE Cloud Computing, 3(4) pp. 42-56.

    Alzaabi, M., Taha, K., Martin, T.A. (2015) 'CISRI: A Crime Investigation System Using the Relative Importance of Information Spreaders in Networks Depicting Criminals Communications.' IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 10(10) pp. 2196-2211.

    Zaabi, M., Taha, K., Martin, T.A. (2015) 'The Use of Ontologies in Forensic Analysis of Smartphone Content.' The Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law,

    Martin, T., O’Toole, L., Jones, A. (2013) 'On the Reliability of Cryptopometry.' International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics, 5(1) pp. 27-38.

    Alzaabi, M., Yeun, C.Y., Martin, T.A. (2011) 'Ensuring Anonymity for LBSs in Smartphone Environment.' Journal of Information Processing Systems, 7(1) pp. 121-136.

    Alghafli, K.A., Jones, A., Martin, T.A. (2010) 'Forensic Analysis of the Windows 7 Registry.' Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law,

    Jones, A., Martin, T. (2010) 'Digital forensics and the issues of identity.' Information Security Technical Report, 15(2) pp. 67-71.

    Martin, T.A., Durbin, C., Pawlewski, M., Parish, D. (2010) 'A Pseudonymous Peer-2-Peer Review System for Child Protection On-line.' Journal of International Commercial Law and Technology,

    Martin, T., Martin, K.M., Wild, P. (2009) 'Establishing the broadcast efficiency of the Subset Difference Revocation Scheme.' Designs, Codes, and Cryptography, 51(3) pp. 315-334.

  • Conference papers

    Martin, T., Hammoudeh, M. (2021) 'Data preservation system using BoCA : Blockchain-of-Custody Application.' In The 5th International Conference on Future Networks & Distributed Systems ICFNDS'21. Dubai, UAE, 15/12/2021 - 16/12/2021. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 70-77.

    Alghafli, K., Martin, T.A. (2017) 'Identification and recovery of video fragments for forensics file carving.' 5/12/2017 - 7/3/2017. IEEE,

    Alsalami, Y., Yeun, C., Martin, T.A., Khonji, M. (2017) 'Linear and differential cryptanalysis of small-sized random (n, m)-S-boxes.' In 11th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST). Barcelona, Spain, 5/12/2016 - 7/12/2016. IEEE,

    Albelooshi, B., Salah, K., Martin, T., Damiani, E. (2016) 'Inspection and deconfliction of published virtual machine templates' remnant data for improved assurance in public Clouds.' 2016-July.

    Albelooshi, A., Salah, K., Martin, T.A., Damiani, E. (2015) 'Securing Cryptographic Keys in the IaaS Cloud Model.' In 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing. Cyprus,

    Albelooshi, B., Salah, K., Martin, T., Damiani, E. (2015) 'Experimental Proof: Data Remanence in Cloud VMs.' pp. 1017-1020.

    Almarashda, K., Dawood, A., Martin, T.A., Al-Mualla, M., Bhaskar, H. (2015) 'An Optimized Selective Encryption for Video Confidentiality.' In International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition. Niagara Falls, Canada,

    AlSalami, Y., Martin, T.A., Yeun, C. (2015) 'Linear and Differential Properties of Randomly Generated DES-Like Substitution Boxes.' In Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering.

    Alghafli, K., Jones, A., Martin, T.A. (2014) 'Investigating and Measuring Capabilities of the Forensics File Carving Techniques.' In Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering.

    Awadhi, E., Salah, K., Martin, T.A. (2013) 'Assessing the Security of the Cloud Provider Environment.' In 7th IEEE GCC Conference & Exhibition.

    Alzaabi, M., Jones, A., Martin, T.A. (2013) 'An Ontology-based Forensic Analysis Tool.' In ADFSL Conference on Digital Forensics, Security and Law.

    Jones, A., Martin, T.A. (2012) 'The 2012 Analysis of Information Remaining on Computer Hard Disks offered for Sale on the Second Hand Market in the UAE.' In ADF 2012 : 10th Australian Digital Forensics Conference.

    Alghafli, K.A., Jones, A., Martin, T.A. (2012) 'Forensics data acquisition methods for mobile phones.' pp. 265-269.

    AlBelooshi, B., Salah, K., Martin, T.A., Bentiba, A. (2012) 'Assessing Overhead Cost Associated with Encrypting Swap File.' In IEEE 11th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom), 2012.

    Almarshada, K., Alsalami, Y., Salah, K., Martin, T.A. (2011) 'On the Security of Inclusion or Omission of MixColumns in AES Cipher.' In AlKindi Student Workshop on Cryptology.

    Martin, T.A., Jones, A. (2011) 'An Evaluation of Data Erasing Tools.' In AUSTRALIAN DIGITAL FORENSICS CONFERENCE.

    Alghafli, K.A., Jones, A., Martin, T.A. (2011) 'Guidelines for the digital forensic processing of Smartphones.' In 9th Australian Digital Forensics Conference.

    Martin, T.A. (2011) 'Undecryptable Symmetric Encryption.' In IEEE GCC Conference and Exhibition For Sustainable Ubiquitous Technology.

    Jones, A., Martin, T.A. (2010) 'Making Information Security Acceptable to the User.' In 1st INTERNATIONAL CYBER RESILIENCE CONFERENCE.

    Martin, T.A., Durbin, C., Pawlewski, M., Parish, D. (2009) 'Future vision of identity.'

Press and media

I have been interviewed multiple times for radio and newspaper articles. I have also appeared as an expert in cyber security on ITV’s Judge Rinder’s Crime Stories.