Phil Legg
Professor In Cyber Security at CSE Connect
Cheltenham, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPhil Legg is a Professor in Cyber Security at the University of the West of England, co-director of the NCSC-accredited UWEcyber Centre and Cyber Security theme lead for UWE’s Computer Science Research Centre. He combines over a decade of applied research and programme leadership—building an NCSC-certified MSc and expanding undergraduate industry engagement—with deep expertise at the nexus of security, data analytics, ML, HCI and visualisation to improve decision-making and risk modelling. Phil has partnered with government, military and industry on multi-disciplinary projects (including insider threat detection work at Oxford) and supervises industry-sponsored doctoral research. A committed educator and outreach advocate, he co-founded CSE Connect to bridge academia, industry and government in cyber education and regularly supports schools and teacher training. He also brings hands-on software pedigree from a successful mobile-app developer background and holds practical industry certifications (CompTIA, PenTest+, Microsoft Azure) alongside a PhD in Computer Science.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Cardiff University / Prifysgol CaerdyddGithub contributions (5)
pa-legg/processing-examples
Jun 2015 - Jan 2022
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 8 months
pa-legg/data-visualization
Jun 2015 - Jan 2022
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 8 months
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