Dr Xavier Bellekens

Dr Xavier Bellekens is a Chancellor’s Fellow Assistant Professor with the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Strathclyde and a Nonresident Fellow of the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council. His current research interests include critical infrastructure protection, defence as well as cyber deception and deterrence. Xavier is also co-Chair of the IEEE Cyber Science collocated conferences, the Education Cyber-Security Thematic Leader, the Chair of the Blockchain Group and the Vice-Chair of Cyber-Security Group for IEEE UK and Ireland.

He frequently appears in the media to provide commentary to international press – on radio, tv and newspapers on major cyber-events.

Selected Publications

• Interoperability and integration testing methods for IoT systems : a systematic mapping study
  Bureš Miroslav, Klima Matej, Rechtberger Vaclav, Bellekens Xavier, Tachtatzis Christos, Atkinson Robert, Ahmed Bestoun
  Software Engineering and Formal Methods (2020)
• A taxonomy of network threats and the effect of current datasets on intrusion detection systems
  Hindy Hanan, Brosset David, Bayne Ethan, Seeam Amar, Tachtatzis Christos, Atkinson Robert, Bellekens Xavier
  IEEE Access Vol 8, pp. 104650-104675 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3000179
• Automatic annotation of subsea pipelines using deep learning
  Stamoulakatos Anastasios, Cardona Javier, McCaig Chris, Murray David, Filius Hein, Atkinson Robert, Bellekens Xavier, Michie Craig, Andonovic Ivan, Lazaridis Pavlos, Hamilton Andrew, Hossain Md Moinul, Di Caterina Gaetano, Tachtatzis Christos
  Sensors Vol 20 (2020) https://doi.org/10.3390/s20030674
• Cyber-security internals of a Skoda Octavia vRS : a hands on approach
  Urquhart Colin, Bellekens Xavier, Tachtatzis Christos, Atkinson Robert, Hindy Hanan, Seeam Amar
  IEEE Access Vol 7, pp. 146057-146069 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2943837

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