Sadie Creese is Professor of Cybersecurity in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. She is a Director of the Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre at the Oxford Martin School, and a Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on AI Threat Detection.

Her research experience spans time in academia, industry and government. She is engaged in a broad portfolio of cyber security research spanning cyber situational awareness and visual analytics for cybersecurity, predicting organisational cyber-value-at-risk and global systemic risk models, agent based simulations for understanding malware and ransomware attacks propagation, threat modelling and detection, network defence, dependability and cyber-resilience strategies for business and ecosystems, and formal analysis.

She also studies national cybersecurity capacity researching what constitutes national cybersecurity capacity, working with countries and international organisations around the world. She has numerous research collaborations with other disciplines and has been leading inter-disciplinary research projects since 2000.

Recent publications include papers on topics including insider threat detection, visual analytics for cyber-attack, cyber-risk propagation prediction, identity attribution across physical and cyber spaces, personal privacy in the face of big data, vulnerability of identities in social networking contexts, and trustworthiness metrics for openly sourced data.

She was the founding Director of Oxford’s Cybersecurity Network launched in 2008. Sadie currently is Course Director for the Saïd Business School’s online programme Cybersecurity for Business Leaders and is a member of the Steering Committee for the WEF AI Governance Alliance.