Dr. Helen Gibson

Head of Innovation

Helen Gibson is the Head of Innovation at CENTRIC. Her core responsibilities focus on innovation, end-user and stakeholder engagement, and developing funding applications and other project opportunities. Helen works across the entire security domain collaborating with stakeholders to co-create, develop and test solutions to address contemporary security challenges.

Helen is from a Mathematics background completing her undergraduate degree at Edinburgh University before a Master's degree in Computing and Information Technology and a PhD in Information Visualization, specifically focused on graphs and networks, both at Northumbria University.

Helen started in CENTRIC at the beginning of 2014 primarily focused around crisis management and the ATHENA project, before going on to make significant contributions to UNITY and TENSOR. Helen played a central role in the set up and implementation of the OSINT Hub and continues to support OSINT activities. During her time in CENTRIC, Helen has undertaken numerous roles including Lecturer, Senior and Principal Research Fellow and Head of Operations before starting her current role as Head of Innovation in August 2023.

She has recent experience in analysing the legal, ethical and privacy implications of technology development for security, as well as contibuting to projects relating to cybercrime, artificial intelligence, and developing the security research ecosystem.

Publications

Ezzeddine, Y., Bayerl, P. S. and Gibson, H. (2023). Citizen Perspectives on Necessary Safeguards to the Use of AI by Law Enforcement Agencies. In: Proceedings from CSCE 2022. Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence . Springer Nature.
Ezzeddine, Y., Bayerl, P., & Gibson, H. (2023). Citizen Perspectives on Necessary Safeguards to the Use of AI by Law Enforcement Agencies. In: Proceedings from CSCE 2022. Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence.
Ezzeddine, Y., Bayerl, P. S. and Gibson, H. (2023). Safety, privacy, or both: evaluating citizens’ perspectives around artificial intelligence use by police forces. Policing and Society, 33 (7), 861-876.
Bayerl, P., Akhgar, B., Raven, A., Gibson, H., & Day, T. (2022). Future Challenges and Requirements for Open Source Intelligence in Law Enforcement Investigations: Results From a Horizon Scanning Exercise. European Law Enforcement Research Bulletin, 22, 21-38.
Davri, E. C., Darra, E., Monogioudis, I., Grigoriadis, A., Iliou, C., Mengidis, N., Tsikrika, T., Vrochidis, S., Peratikou, A., Gibson, H., Haskovic, D., Kavallieros, D., Chaskos, E., Zhao, P., Shiaeles, S., Savage, N., Akhgar, B., Belleken, X., & Farah, M. A. B. (2021). Cyber Security Certification Programmes. In: 2021 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR). (pp. 428-435). IEEE.