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Dr. Gregory Epiphaniou is Reader in Security Engineering at the University of Warwick with over 25 years of experience in Information Security. He manages a team of 6 PhD students, 7 Research Fellows, and 3 Assistant Professors in the Cyber Security Centre. His research focuses on threat source characterisation, proactive cyber defense, and principles of physical layer security and secure systems engineering, with work on crypto-key generation via V-V channels. He has led and contributed to more than 40 research projects funded by EPSRC, IUK, H2020, Alan Turing Institute and local authorities, totalling over £30M. Dr. Epiphaniou is the inventor of a patent-pending distributed ledger system (GB2576160A/US200042497A1) and has authored a book and several articles on DLT technologies. He is an associate editor for ACM DLT and a regional editor for Springer Nature Discover IoT journals. Previously, he was a Reader in Cybersecurity and deputy director of the Wolverhampton Cybersecurity Research Institute, where he helped establish the Midlands Centre for Cyber Security at Skylon Park in Hereford. He has extensive teaching experience in proactive network defence and has published over 100 international papers while maintaining a distinguished reviewer status in many Q1 security journals. Dr. Epiphaniou holds numerous industry certifications (CISSP, CEH, CISM) and has collaborated on projects with several government agencies, including the UK MoD. He is a subject matter expert at the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments and a technical committee member for various scientific conferences. Finally, he contributed to forming the UK Cybersecurity Council and has been a keynote speaker and consultant in Information Security for the last fifteen years.