Andrew D. Ker

Position

• Royal Society University Research Fellow, 2003-
• Special Supernumerary Fellow, University College, Oxford, 2003-

Background

• BA in Mathematics & Computer Science, University College, Oxford, 1994-1997
• DPhil in Computer Science, University College and Merton College, Oxford, 1997-2000
• Junior Research Fellow, University College, Oxford, 2000-2003

Research

My thesis was on the mathematical foundations of computer science. I am now interested in information hiding, specifically steganography and steganalysis. There is another page containing my publications.

Selected Professional Activities

• Associate Editor, International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics.
• Area Editor, IET Information Security.
• General chair, 10th ACM Workshop on Multimedia & Security MM&Sec08.
• Programme committee, SPIE/IS&T Electronic Imaging: Media Forensics and Security XI.
• Programme committee, 7th International Workshop on Digital Watermarking IWDW 2008.
• Lecturer, International School on Foundations of Security Analysis and Design FOSAD 2008. (Slides of seminars part 1 part 2.)

Teaching

I give the lecture course on Lambda Calculus and Types, and this year also on Discrete Mathematics.
In college I teach various computer science courses (usually the more mathematical ones), probability and statistics, and sometimes some pure maths.

Other Interests

I am a musician, specifically a percussionist and a baritone. I still play percussion in the University Orchestras in Oxford. I am also involved in the administration of the Oxford University orchestras. Depending on how industrious they have been recently, you might find up-to-date information on the Oxford University Music Society web site.

Trivia

My surname is properly pronounced "car".