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“Research thrives when driven by genuine curiosity and shared passion, as discovered through my journey into digital forensics that began with a single undergraduate project.”

Huw Read began his academic career in 2004 at the University of South Wales (United Kingdom) and has taught a number of specialist courses in digital forensics and cybersecurity. For more than 10 years, he has worked alongside industry and government on a number of cyber-related projects, partnering with diverse teams to design solutions to complex security problems.

He is actively engaged in academic research and scholarship within the field, his work has been published in several peer-reviewed conferences and journals. Several publications have been jointly authored with undergraduate students, helping to better arm them for future cyber-related challenges.

He joined the ӣ������ faculty in 2015. Since taking the post, he has led a team of ӣ������ students working on cybersecurity at Super Bowl 50 and received NSA/NSF grant funding to run two successive GenCyber summer camps for high school students from across the United States. Read also led a successful recertification process, which recognized ӣ������ as one of the country's few National Security Agency-recognized Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education and a Defense Department-recognized Center of Digital Forensic Academic Excellence.

Ph.D. Digital Forensics, University of Glamorgan, South Wales, UK
B.Sc. Software Engineering, University of Glamorgan, South Wales, UK

Huw O.L. Read conducts research in digital forensics in areas of forensic science, the law, and their application to the digital realm. His research journey began as an undergraduate B.Sc. in Software Engineering which had, as part of the programme, a substantial research project in the final year of study. It was at this time in 2002 he first learnt of the specialist field of digital forensics and put effort into developing a forensic application. The process of completing that research instilled in him a deep-rooted interest in digital forensics that has continued to shape his research over the years. They actively mentor students, advising that they pick a mentor with the same interests; successful research projects come from students and mentors who are genuinely excited about the research discoveries. He collaborates with colleagues at ӣ������ and beyond, including Dr. Iain Sutherland (Noroff University College, Norway) and Dr. Konstantinos Xynos (Automotive security researcher, Germany).