Cyber-RCI 2024

Dr. Mark Scanlon
Associate Professor in the UCD School of Computer Science, Founding Director of the UCD Forensics and Security Research Group, Programme Director of the Masters in Forensic Computing and Cybercrime Investigation and Principal Investigator at Ireland’s National Centre for Applied AI (CeADAR). He is a Fulbright Scholar in Cybersecurity and Cybercrime Investigation. Both his MSc and PhD are in the field of Remote Digital Forensic Evidence Acquisition and Analysis. His research interests include Remote Evidence Acquisition, Evidence Whitelisting & Data Deduplication, Cloud Forensics, File Synchronisation Service Forensics, Network Forensics, and Digital Forensics Education. Dr. Scanlon is an active member of the digital forensics research community and is a keen editor, reviewer and conference organiser across a range of key journals and conferences in the field - including Senior Editor at Elsevier's Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation and on the organising committee for DFRWS.

Prof. Markus Helfert
A leading expert in Digital Service Innovation Innovation and the Director of the Innovation Value Institute, the hub for Digital Transformation and Service Innovation research at Maynooth University. He is also leading as Director of EMPOWER – the Research Ireland-funded Programme on Data Governance. In his role as a principal investigator at Lero and ADAPT, he focuses on Digital Service Innovation, Digital Transformation, and Data Governance, where he conducts research on all three of these topics. In addition to working with several public and private organisations, he created a Data Quality Management framework to ensure data quality. Markus Helfert has authored more than 200+ academic articles, journal and book contributions and has presented his work at international conferences. Currently, he is leading several national and international research projects, including two multimillion- euro projects on sustainable digital transformation and data governance, Digi+ and ENTRUST, funded by the EU under the Marie Sklowdowska-Curie programme.