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Dr Nalin Asanka Gamagedara Arachchilage is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Cyber Security and Privacy (Usable Security and Privacy) in the School of Computer Science at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Besides, he is also an Honorary Associate Professor in Cyber Security at the University of Warwick, UK. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow in Cyber Security in the School of Engineering and Information Technology of the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) and an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow (April 2021 - present) in Cyber Security (Research Associate Professor in US) within the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology at La Trobe University, Australia.

Previously, he was a Senior Research Fellow (Research Associate Professor in the USA - from 2019 to 2021) in Cyber Security in the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology at La Trobe University, Australia. Before joining La Trobe, Nalin worked as a Lecturer in Cyber Security (from 2016 to 2020) in the School of Engineering and Information Technology of the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA), where he led the Usable Security research group.  Nalin holds a PhD in Computer Science (Cyber Security) from Brunel University London, UK, where he developed a game design framework for teaching people how to protect themselves from phishing attacks. At Oxford University, he cut his teeth as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Systems Security Engineering (2013 - 2014) in the Department of Computer Science and then joined the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada as Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Usable Security and Privacy (2014 - 2015).

Nalin's primary research interests are at the intersection of computer security, human-computer interaction (HCI), software engineering, Information systems security and serious games, in an area known as usable security and privacy engineering. In his research, he applies HCI methods and concepts to the Cyber Security and Privacy domain. He also works on Secure Software Engineering (i.e., developer-centred) and Machine Learning for Cyber/Usable Security, specifically threat modelling through the cybercriminals'; and end users'; behavioural analysis. Nalin's research is inter-disciplinary in nature and has published numerous articles at the world’s leading conferences and high- impact journals.

Nalin's primary research interests are at the intersection of computer security, human- computer interaction (HCI), software engineering, Information systems security and serious games, in an area known as usable security and privacy engineering. In his research, he applies HCI methods and concepts to the Cyber Security and Privacy domain. He also works on Secure Software Engineering (i.e., developer-centred) and Machine Learning for Cyber/Usable Security, specifically threat modelling through the cybercriminals' and end users' behavioural analysis. Nalin's research is inter-disciplinary in nature and has published numerous articles at the world’s leading conferences and high- impact journals.

Nalin has presented his research at Facebook Headquarters, Menlo Park, California, USA and collaborated with HP in a research capacity at the HP Lab, Bristol, UK. His research has been featured in numerous media outlets including ABC News Radio, 2GB 873 AM Radio, SYN Radio 90.7 FM, Sky News Australia, Daily show on Radio 2SER 107.3, Choice - Australia, Guardian labs (sponsored by Intel Corporation, Australia) and UNSW TV. He has been an invited speaker for conferences both nationally and internationally.

Nalin also worked on a number of "sessional/visiting" lecturing positions in Computer Science in the UK (Brunel University London, University of Bedfordshire, Westminster University, and Central Bedfordshire College), Canada (University of British Columbia), and Australia (Deakin University, Victoria University, and Central Queensland University (CQUniversity).

Nalin obtained a BSc (MIS) Hons from University College Dublin, National University of Ireland and has completed a master's degree, MSc Information Management and Security at the University of Bedfordshire, UK. He is a Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) at Sun Microsystems (now Oracle), USA.