Lecturer in Cybersecurity · University of Strathclyde

Security & privacy
at the edge of AI

I build automated systems to audit voice assistants, messaging platforms, and LLM ecosystems — exposing privacy failures before they reach millions of users.

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Dr. Jide Edu
Dr. Jide Edu
jide.edu@strath.ac.uk
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
0000-0003-1325-8740
Appointed: 01 April 2024
AI Security Privacy Voice Assistants Identity Systems Machine Learning FHEA

Research focus

What I work on

Voice assistant security
Evaluating Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri, and Mycroft for privacy vulnerabilities in third-party skill ecosystems — first to comprehensively map the attack surface.
AI & LLM privacy
Measuring personalisation, data collection, and regulatory compliance in LLM-powered ecosystems. Forthcoming paper currently under review.
National identity systems
Risk assessment frameworks for national electronic identity systems, examining the social, economic, and political stakes of large-scale NeID compromise.
Messaging platform security
Automated static and dynamic analysis of chatbots on Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, and Teams — identifying admin-permission overreach and missing privacy policies at scale.
Misinformation in AI apps
Studying how third-party voice applications can be weaponised for misinformation — a gap in prior work that focused only on input-side privacy issues.
Human factors & usable security
Understanding developer challenges and user behaviour in voice and AI ecosystems — Tier 1 A★ USENIX paper on developer risk, liability, and security trade-offs.

Research outputs

Publications & citations

Citation growth
Cumulative citations since 2020
492total citations
2020
Smart home personal assistants: a security and privacy review ↗
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), vol. 53, no. 6, pp. 1–36
Journal · IF 23.8SurveySmart homePrivacy
299
2021
SkillVet: automated traceability analysis of Amazon Alexa skills ↗
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 161–175
Journal · IF 7.3Machine learningPrivacyAlexa
68
2022
Exploring the security and privacy risks of chatbots in messaging services ↗
22nd ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC '22), pp. 581–588
Tier 1 A★ConferenceChatbotsMessaging
49
2022
Measuring Alexa skill privacy practices across three years ↗
The Web Conference (WWW '22), pp. 670–680
Tier 1 A★ConferenceLongitudinal studyPrivacy measurement
44
2022
Assessing and measuring the privacy practices of voice assistant applications ↗
PhD Thesis, King's College London
ThesisVoice assistantsPrivacy
6
2023
Voice app developer experiences with Alexa and Google Assistant: juggling risks, liability, and security ↗
33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '24)
Tier 1 A★ConferenceVoice assistantsHuman factors
10
2023
An impact and risk assessment framework for national electronic identity (eID) systems ↗
International Conference on AI and the Digital Economy (CADE 2023), pp. 124–133
ConferenceIdentity systemsRisk assessment
5
2023
Exploring the risks and challenges of national electronic identity (NeID) system ↗
IET Conference Proceedings CP846 2023, no. 14, pp. 118–123
ConferenceIdentity systemsRisk
5
2023
Misinformation in third-party voice applications ↗
5th International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI '23), ACM
ConferenceMisinformationVoice AI
4
2023
Moving beyond frameworks: stakeholders' perceptions of risk assessment in national electronic identity system ↗
Conference paper, 2023
ConferenceIdentity systemsStakeholders
1
2025
Using traditional image kernels and image processing techniques to harden convolutional neural networks against adversarial attacks ↗
International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS), pp. 185–203
ConferenceAdversarial MLNeural networks
1
2024
Apple insists its ChatGPT tie-up will protect users' privacy: here are the questions it must answer first ↗
Published article, 2024
AI PrivacyLLMsCommentary
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Career

Experience & education

Employment
2023 — present
Lecturer in Cybersecurity
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
Leading AI security research, teaching postgraduate cybersecurity modules, supervising 6 PhD students, and serving as Strathclyde Academic Lead for EC-Council and CIISec partnerships.
2022 — 2023
Postdoctoral Researcher — Cyber Risk Analyst
Alan Turing Institute, UK
Cyber risk analysis and AI security research at the UK's national institute for data science and AI.
2020 — 2022
Research Assistant
Department of Informatics, King's College London
Built SkillVet — an automated ML tool for privacy assessment. Made responsible disclosure to Amazon for 675 privacy-violating Alexa skills. ICO-funded project.
2018 — 2022
Teaching Assistant & Tutor
King's College London / Brilliant Club
Small- and large-group instruction across network security, cryptography, and computer forensics modules.
Education
2018 — 2022
Ph.D. Computer Science
King's College London, UK
Thesis: Assessing and Measuring the Privacy Practices of Voice Assistant Applications. Fully funded by £130,000 PTDF Scholarship.
2014 — 2015
M.Sc. Cybersecurity
Lancaster University, UK
Advanced exposure to cybersecurity with a research project on cloud computing. Funded by £30,000 NITDEF Scholarship.
2005 — 2010
B.Sc. Computer Science
Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria
Core computer science curriculum with a final-year project on object-oriented programming languages.

Teaching

Courses & supervision

45
MSc dissertations
6
BSc dissertations
6
Current PhD students
FHEA
HEA Fellow
CS885
Vulnerability Assessment and Security Testing
≈ 50 students · 2025–present
CS810
Compliance and Operational Security Management
≈ 70 students · 2023–present
CS807
Graduate Apprenticeship — Vulnerability Assessment
≈ 70 students · 2023–present
7CCSMNSE
Network Security
≈ 30 students · 2019–2022
6CCS3CIS
Cryptography and Information Security
≈ 30 students · 2021–2022
7CCSMCIS
Computer Forensics and Cybercrime
≈ 30 students · 2019–2022
4CCS1FC1
Foundational Computing
≈ 70 students · 2018–2021
4CCS1PPA
Introduction to Programming
≈ 80 students · 2018–2021

Funding & recognition

Awards & grants

2024
John Anderson Research Studentship Scheme (JARSS) Grant — University of Strathclyde
JARSS
2023
Strathclyde University Starter Grant
£10,000
2021
ICO Research Grant — Evaluating third-party smart home assistant developers
£45,000
2018
Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) Scholarship Award
£130,000
2014
National Information Technology Development Education Trust Fund (NITDEF) Scholarship
£30,000
Pending
ARIA Grant — Framework for Embodied and Algorithmic Trust (FEAT): AI, Physical Cryptography, and the Ethics of Secure Autonomy
£19,960

Get in touch

Contact & links

Direct contact

jide.edu@strath.ac.uk
Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
ORCID: 0000-0003-1325-8740
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Professional memberships

Expert Fellow, SPRITE+ Security & Privacy NetworkPlus
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
Member, EPSRC Peer Review College
Member, Research Innovation Scotland (RIS)
Member, RBOC (Resilience Beyond Observed Capabilities) NetworkPlus
Member, CRANE Cyber Security Research Network
STEM Ambassador
Centering Black Scholarship in STEM network