Dr Stephen Hart is a visiting fellow and PhD graduate from Southampton University. His PhD is titled “A pedagogical design model to create serious games for cyber security”. His research is about creating serious games to teach cyber security.

He currently works as a cyber security manager in the payments industry, protecting over 8 billion annual payment worth approx. £7.4 trillion. As a cyber security professional, he has shaped and delivered strategic visions underpinning national IT Information security, leading to a dramatic transformation of corporate landscapes, including eradicating IT vulnerabilities. Champions change and process re-engineering envisions innovative solutions to complex problems, uses the latest tools & technologies within the IT & cyber security arena, and generates business cases for presentation to C-Level stakeholders for radical programmes. Stephen is a true advocate for safeguarding business-critical systems, networks and infrastructures. He has experience creating short, medium and long-term strategies for the deployment of information security technologies, including consolidating data centres, secure web hosting and ITIL-based service delivery.

I am a PhD student in computer science at the cyber physical systems research group. I have a BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering and an MSc in Artificial Intelligence. I worked as a mobile application developer after my bachelor's graduation degree. After that, I started my Teaching Assistant position where I thought the labs of multiple courses such as Advanced Programming (Java) and Fundamentals of Digital Hardware.

Moved to Southampton to work on obtaining my postgraduate degrees. My research interests started with IoT, mobile apps, and NLP using machine learning. Currently, I'm focused on incorporating artificial intelligence in healthcare. My motivation for doing the PhD is to work on projects and research that help in improving lives.