Siani Pearson

Dr Siani Pearson is a principal research scientist in the Security and Cloud Lab, at HP Labs Bristol, which is HP’s European long term applied research centre. Her current research focuses on accountability, privacy and the cloud and she holds over 50 patents and is author or co-author of well over 100 papers and technical reports in these fields. 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 is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, senior member of IEEE and a Certified Information Privacy Professional/Information Technology. Siani is currently the scientific coordinator of a major European research project on Accountability for the Cloud (A4Cloud) and is a member of: HP Privacy and Data Protection Board; UK Cloud Security Alliance Chapter board; HP cloud security WG; CSA PLA and OCF WGs; IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing Editorial Board; UK IEC subcommittee on data principles; numerous programme committees, including being Program Chair of IEEE CloudCom 2014; the steering committees of a number of conferences and advisory boards of several universities and EU projects.