Prashant Pillai (computer scientist)

Pillai was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to cyber security and education.

He was also appointed as the Group Chair of the IEEE UK and Ireland Blockchain group in 2022.

Pillai joined University of Wolverhampton, UK as Professor of Cyber Security and Director of the Wolverhampton Cyber Research Institute in 2018. He was interim Head of School for the School of Mathematics and Computer Science before taking on his current role as Associate Dean Research and Knowledge Exchange at the same University. He is also the Centre Director for £9m Cyber Quarter - the Midlands Centre for Cyber Security. It is a joint venture between the University of Wolverhampton and Herefordshire Council and part-funded by the Government’s Local Growth Fund, via the Marches Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). The Cyber Quarter was opened in December 2021.

He was Co-chair of the Satellite Working Group of the IEEE International Network Generations Roadmap (INGR) from 2018-2021. and is an Advisory Board Member of the West Midlands Cyber Resilience Centre.

He then moved to Oxford Brookes University in 2017, as a Reader in Cyber Security and Head of the Cyber Security Research Group at the Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment.

Prashant Pillai MBE (born July 1979) is an Indian-born British computer scientist. He is Associate Dean for Research and Knowledge Exchange and Professor of Cyber Security at the University of Wolverhampton. He is also the Director of Cyber Quarter - Midlands Centre for Cyber Security. He specialises in security and privacy for communication networks. Pillai has led several national/international research projects in the areas of networking protocols and cyber security. He has been invited for talks at various international conferences and has published over 100 papers within peer-reviewed journals and conferences.