Gavin Lowe (computer scientist)

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Gavin Lowe
Alma materOxford University
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford (from 2000)[1] University of Leicester (until 2000)[2]
ThesisProbabilities and Priorities in Timed CSP (1993)
Doctoral advisorBill Roscoe

Gavin Lowe is a British academic. He is a professor of computer science[3] and tutorial fellow at St Catherine's College, Oxford,[1] a professor at the University of Oxford,[3] and President of the Senior Common Room of St Catherine's College, Oxford.[1] His research interests include computer security, for which he developed the cryptographic protocol analysis tool Casper, and concurrency.

Education

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Lowe studied mathematics as an undergraduate at St John's College, Oxford,[4] then took an MSc in computation at the University of Oxford.[1] He undertook a DPhil at St Hugh's College, Oxford,[5] writing a thesis titled Probabilities and Priorities in Timed CSP.[5][6] He published a paper detailing an attack on the Needham–Schroeder protocol, as well as a method to fix the issue, in 1995.[7][8] The fixed version of the protocol described in the paper is referred to as the Needham–Shroeder–Lowe protocol.[9]

Career

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His research interests have included computer security, for which he developed the cryptographic protocol analysis tool Casper.[10] This tool translates a security protocol description into CSP, which is then processed by the FDR refinement checker. Recently, he has moved to researching the field of concurrency.[3]

He was Program Co-chair of the Joint Workshop on Automated Reasoning for Security Protocol Analysis and Issues in the Theory of Security in 2010.[11]

Lowe is a distinguished teacher, having won teaching awards in 2008[12] and 2010.[13][14] Along with Peter Millican, he is responsible for the development and establishment of a new joint degree in Computer Science and Philosophy at the University of Oxford in 2012.[13][15]

Personal life

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Lowe enjoys caving.[16] He was the secretary of the Oxford University Cave Club from 1988 to 1989, and tackle master in 1990.[4]

References

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