Carlton is a Senior Research Fellow working on the EU EXFILES project as technical and task leads, where he works with European law enforcement agencies to develop novel forensic extraction techniques for modern mobile devices. He joined the ISG in 2020 after working for Atom Bank, the UK’s first mobile bank, and OneSpan, a NASDAQ-listed provider of user authentication, fraud analysis, e-signature, and other cybersecurity products for financial services.
His research interests centre around trusted execution environments (TEEs), encrypted execution, hardware-assisted software security, and encrypted data analysis.
He holds a Ph.D. in Information Security from Royal Holloway, University of London, where he was sponsored by the Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Cyber Security at the ISG. He also holds a first-class B.Sc. (Hons) in Computer Science from Newcastle University.
E-mail: carlton.shepherd@rhul.ac.uk