Dr Ferguson has taught extensively (since 1995) at all levels from first year undergraduate to postgraduate levels. Topics include:
Winner of the Abertay Student-led Teaching Award for "Creative and Innovative Teaching" 2011-12 - Many thanks to all of you who voted for me - most unexpected!
Dr Ian Ferguson is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Forensics at Abertay University. His research interests lie in developing more effective methodologies, techniques and tools to aid the investigation of cybercrime particularly in distributed, mobile and IoT systems.
Dr. R.I. Ferguson gained his PhD in Software Engineering from the University of Sunderland in 1998.
Whilst at the University of Sunderland, he established a publication record in the fields of software engineering and mobile-agent based systems. Between 2000 and 2010 at the University of Strathclyde he was a member of Smartlab (the Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing Group) where he successfully supervised (5) PhDs on agent based middleware for group communication, quality metrics for context data in ubiquitous computing, semi-structured databases and scalable distributed indexing systems.
Since arriving at the University of Abertay Dundee in 2010 his work has concentrated on digital forensics and applying visualization and GPGPU techniques to problems in digital forensic analysis. He is currently supervising 4 PhDs looking a IoT security and forensic analysis of IoT systems.
KTP (details to be added)
Microsoft (details to be added)
SLIC (details to be added)
Innovation Vouchers
Recent projects include work supported by the SHEFCE Innovation Voucher scheme on Digital Rights Management, but details are commercial and in confidence.
I seem to have my contact details on a list circulating inside the BBC and am trotted out whenever they need someone to interview about cybersecurity. Recent interviews have included:
d.mcluskie@abertay.ac.uk
+44 (0)1382 30 8618
s.elsayed@abertay.ac.uk
+44 (0)1382 30 8659