Dr Abdulrazaq Abba

My research interest is in the broad area of computing; currently, my research focuses on three directions: software security engineering, intelligent systems and interdisciplinary.

• Software Security Engineering - investigating better techniques for improving software security towards developing trustworthy software systems, both internally (software engineering) and externally (cyber security), including the psychology of the people around these systems, understanding their minds, motivations, rationale. Our research in this area covers every aspect of software development: problem formulation, requirements analysis, development, verification, testing, migration, legacy systems, retirements, etc. 
• Intelligent Systems (including Serious Games) - investigating the concept of intelligent behaviour toward developing intelligent systems that interact, learn, adapt and assist users, physically, cognitively and socially. While in Serious Games, we investigate the potentials of games for advancing human creativity to make learning easier, fun and engaging across various disciplines: education, health, social policy, defence, science, and so on. This research combines various field reasoning, decision supports, pattern recognition, strategies, and actions. 
• Interdisciplinary - to leverage the power of computing to support other disciplines, considering the high potentials of computing in empowering other disciplines. This is an open-ended research work for collaborating with other disciplines. I am open to other interesting research areas, particularly the grand challenges in programming and computer security. If you are interested in any of these relevant researches, contact me for research collaboration, both academic and industry. I will be happy to discuss your research ideas or proposals. Also, I have vacancies for accepting PhD applications from good candidates; get in touch. We will be happy to discuss, refine, and develop your ideas into PhD research. My email: a.abba@uel.ac.uk