Alumni Member
Keerthi Thomas (Alumni) 
Research Associate
I research privacy and data protection for big data generated by smart city technologies. In particular, my research focuses on architecture for automated privacy rights management in a smart city data hub (http://www.mksmart.org). As my research interests lay in both the problem and solution spaces, I aim to translate problem knowledge into innovative designs and engineer practical solutions. From a software engineering perspective, I look at how software engineers might be benefited in exploiting the use of privacy enhancing technologies in their system design.
As an Associate Lecturer at The Open University I tutor an undergraduate module in Computer Science - 'M269: Algorithms, data structures and computability'.
Before completing a PhD in Software Engineering from the OU in 2013, I worked in the industry as a Software Engineer / Systems Analyst for 10 years.
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Publications
Mancini, C., Jedrzejczyk, L., Thomas, K., Price, B., Bandara, A., Rogers, Y., Joinson, A. and Nuseibeh, B. (2010). Predators and Prey: Ubiquitous Tracking, Privacy and the Social Contract. Department of Computing, The Open University. https://oro.open.ac.uk/90620/.
d'Aquin, M., Adamou, A., Daga, E., Liu, S., Thomas, K. and Motta, E. (2014). Dealing with diversity in a smart-city datahub. In: Fifth Workshop on Semantics for Smarter Cities, 19 Oct 2014, Riva del Garda, Italy. https://oro.open.ac.uk/42047/.
Thomas, K. (2014). Privacy implications of online consumer-activity data: an empirical study. In: Second Workshop on Society, Privacy and the Semantic Web - Policy and Technology, 20 Oct 2014. https://oro.open.ac.uk/41308/.
Thomas, K., Fernández, M., Brown, S. and Alani, H. (2014). OUSocial2: a platform for gathering students’ feedback from social media. In: The 13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2014), 19-23 Oct 2014, Riva Del Garda, Trentino, Italy (Forthcoming). https://oro.open.ac.uk/40883/.
Thomas, K. (2014). Distilling Mobile Privacy Requirements from Qualitative Data. [Thesis] https://oro.open.ac.uk/40121/.
Thomas, K., Bandara, A.K., Price, B.A. and Nuseibeh, B. (2014). Distilling Privacy Requirements for Mobile Applications. In: 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2014), 31 May - 7 Jun 2014, Hyderabad, India. https://oro.open.ac.uk/39635/.
d'Aquin, M., Motta, E., Nikolov, A. and Thomas, K. (2012). Realizing networks of proactive smart products. In: 18th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2012), 8-12 Oct 2012, Galway, Ireland. https://oro.open.ac.uk/34450/.
Mancini, C., Rogers, Y., Thomas, K., Joinson, A., Price, B., Bandara, A., Jedrzejczyk, L. and Nuseibeh, B. (2011). In the best families: tracking and relationships. In: 29th International ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM CHI 2011, 07-12 May 2011, Vancouver, Canada. https://oro.open.ac.uk/27004/.
Mancini, C., Rogers, Y., Jedrzejczyk, L., Thomas, K., Price, B., Joinson, A., Bandara, A. and Nuseibeh, B. (2009). A multi-pronged empirical approach to mobile privacy investigation. In: Workshop on Mobile User Experience Research: Challenges, Methods & Tools. 27th ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM CHI 2009, 4-9 Apr 2009, Boston, USA. https://oro.open.ac.uk/27023/.
Mancini, C., Rogers, Y., Bandara, A., Coe, T., Jedrzejczyk, L., Joinson, A., Price, B., Thomas, K. and Nuseibeh, B. (2010). Contravision: Exploring users' reactions to futuristic technology. In: Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Human factors in computing systems, 10-15 Apr 2010, Atlanta Georgia, USA. https://oro.open.ac.uk/19587/.
Mancini, C., Thomas, K., Rogers, Y., Price, B.A., Jedrzejczyk, L., Bandara, A.K., Joinson, A.N. and Nuseibeh, B. (2009). From spaces to places: Emerging contexts in mobile privacy. In: Proceedings of the 11th International conference on Ubiquitous computing, 30 Sep - 3 Oct 2009, Orlando, Florida, USA. https://oro.open.ac.uk/18962/.
Thomas, K., Mancini, C., Jedrzejczyk, L., Bandara, A.K., Joinson, A., Price, B.A., Rogers, Y. and Nuseibeh, B. (2009). Studying location privacy in mobile applications: 'predator vs. prey' probes. In: Proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security, 15-17 Jul 2009, California. https://oro.open.ac.uk/18974/.
Tech Reports
On the Privacy Implications of Releasing Consumer-Activity Data
Techreport ID: kmi-13-02
Date: 2013
Author(s): Keerthi Thomas,Mathieu d'Aquin
Consumer Activity Data: Usages and Challenges
Techreport ID: kmi-12-03
Date: 2012
Author(s): Mathieu d'Aquin,Keerthi Thomas
