Steven James Murdoch is Professor of Security Engineering[7] in the Computer Science Department, University College London.

[7] His research covers privacy-enhancing technology, Internet censorship,[8] and anonymous communication, in particular Tor.

[9][10] He is also known for discovering several vulnerabilities in the EMV bank chipcard payment system (Chip and PIN)[3][11][12][13] and for creating Tor Browser.

[14][15] Murdoch was educated at the University of Cambridge completing a PhD on computer security supervised by Markus Kuhn in 2008.

[7] He received the 2008 ERCIM Security and Trust Management Working Group Award for his PhD thesis "Covert channel vulnerabilities in anonymity systems".