Associate Professor Ernest Foo joined Griffith University in 2019 within Griffith’s School of Information and Communication Technology. Associate Professor Foo’s research can be broadly grouped into the field of applied cyber security. National critical infrastructure systems such as electricity substations and water treatment plants are becoming more connected and are susceptible to cyber-attacks. Associate Professor Foo’s research work looks for new ways to detect cyber attackers in critical infrastructure systems and prevent those attackers from being effective. The mechanisms he has employed in his research include machine learning and formal verification as well as cryptographic protocols and network simulations.