Dr Ruba Abu-Salma

About

Ruba Abu-Salma is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Computer Science at King’s College London, affiliated with the Cybersecurity Group and Human-Centered Computing Group in the Department of Informatics. She is also Deputy Head of the Cybersecurity Group and Co-Champion of the department’s Security Hub. Her research is interdisciplinary, sitting at the intersection of cybersecurity, privacy, human-computer interaction (HCI), emerging technologies, and public policy. She uses computational and social science methods to understand and improve people’s security, privacy, and safety decision-making processes, with a focus on at-risk populations. Her work has been published at top-tier venues, including IEEE S&P (Oakland), USENIX Security, ACM CHI, and ACM TOCHI, and has been featured