Siani Pearson

Siani is a principal research scientist in the Security and Cloud Research Lab. She has been the technical lead on a number of different research projects, with a focus on privacy enhancing technologies, accountability and the cloud. Siani received an MA from Oxford University in logic, a PhD in artificial intelligence from the University of Edinburgh and was a Research Fellow at Cambridge University before joining HP in 1994. She has been editor and co-author of books on Trusted Computing and on Privacy and Security for Cloud Computing, and is associate editor for journals on trust management as well as IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. She has been Vice President of the UK Chapter of the Cloud Security Alliance and member of: the steering committees of CSA GRC Stack and IFIP TM; HP Privacy and Data Protection Board; HP security forum; HP cloud security working group; numerous programme committees, including being General Chair of IFIP Trust Management 2013 and Program Chair of IEEE CloudCom 2013 and 2014; the advisory boards of several universities and EU projects. She is currently involved in the following projects/activities: Development of regulatory compliance advisors: joint projects between HP Labs, HP Privacy Office and other business units Investigation of advanced encryption techniques for the cloud Scientific lead for EU FP7 Cloud Accountability integrated project (A4Cloud)​