Dr. Liliana Pasquale

Dr. Liliana Pasquale

Computer Science

University College Dublin

Liliana.pasquale@ucd.ie

Dr Liliana Pasquale is an Associate Professor with the UCD School of Computer Science and a Funded Investigator with Lero, the Research Ireland Research Centre for Software.

Her research focuses on software and requirements engineering, adaptive systems and cyber security, with a particular focus on the use of AI. From 2017-2021, she was the leading PI for the Science Foundation Ireland ForCops project aimed to engineer cyber-physical systems that are forensic-ready and GDPR compliant. From 2019 to 2022, she was the task leader of the adaptive security work package for the CyberSec4Europe European Cybersecurity Competence Centre. She serves as the associate editor for the TSE journal and department editor for the “Building Security In” column of the IEEE Security & Privacy magazine.


Dr. Pasquale is the founder and director of the MSc in Cybersecurity at UCD and a member of the SPARE research group, which spans 4 Irish academic institutions (UCD, TCD, UL and UCC) and brings together researchers with expertise in software engineering, cybersecurity and HCI.

She has successfully co-supervised 4 PhD students to completion and 2 Postdoctoral researchers currently employed as Assistant Professors at UCD and TU Dublin.