Daniel S. Fowler, Engineer and Researcher

Hello World. I am providing some information for those looking for some of my available works, background information, and links to other online profiles.

Short Bio

I am on a break from full-time work. I finished my last role in 2025, I was an Assistant Professor, spending nearly six years in the Secure Cyber Systems Research Group, WMG, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, researching secure and resilient system design. I received a B.Eng.(Hons.) degree in computer and control system engineering (1986), an M.Sc. degree in forensic computing (2015), and a Ph.D. degree in automotive cybersecurity (2019), all from Coventry University, Coventry, UK. I have 30+ years of computer engineering experience, principally in software design and development, however, I have worked in several roles in industrial and financial businesses, including software architecture, leading software teams, software product management, microprocessor system design, technical authorship, and leading technical projects. At the University of Warwick, I aided the engineering and delivery of several Innovate U.K.-funded projects. I contribute to the open-source community through software and have written 300+ articles (mainly via this website). I am a Chartered Engineer and a member of the IET and ACM.

Other Profiles

ORCiD profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6730-2802 .
Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=JXAChTkAAAAJ

List of Works

The entries in this list can be seen on my ORCiD profile. To contact me about the works please use the email address danielsfowler@acm.org. Note, the email addresses dan.fowler@warwick.ac.uk and fowlerd3@coventry.ac.uk are no longer operational.

Economic Factors in CHERI Adoption (ResAuto Deliverable D3.2); Daniel S. Fowler, Lukasz Bartoszcze, Carsten Maple, Gregory Epiphaniou, Anh Tuan Le, Miroslaw Malinowski; WMG; 2024; PDF
AIRQKD: The Role of Free-Space Optics Quantum Key Distribution Enabling Pragmatic Secure and Scalable Communications; Zoe C. M. Davidson, Emilio Hugues-Salas, Gerald M. Bonner, Brynmor E. Jones, John Prentice, Sharana Kariappa, Daniel S. Fowler, Romerson D. Oliveira, Peide Zhang, Yuri Andersson, Evangelos A. Kosmatos, Alexandros Stavdas, Andrew Lord; IEEE Communications Magazine, 62 (10), 40-47; 2024; DOI:10.1109/MCOM.001.2300813; PDF
A Robotaxi Artificial Intelligence Safety Failure; Daniel S. Fowler, Carsten Maple; International Conference on AI and the Digital Economy (CADE 2024), Venice, Italy, 48-54; 2024; DOI:10.1049/icp.2024.2527; PDF
Rapid Beam Training at Terahertz Frequency with Contextual Multi-Armed Bandit Learning; Son Dinh-Van, Yuen Kwan Mo, Jasmine Zidan, Daniel S. Fowler, Alex Evans, Matthew D. Higgins, Van Chien Trinh; 2024 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT), Bristol, UK; 2024; DOI:10.1109/ICIT58233.2024.10540692; PDF
Quantum Key Distribution for V2I communications with software-defined networking; Alexandros Stavdas, Evangelos Kosmatos, Carsten Maple, Emilio Hugues‐Salas, Gregory Epiphaniou, Daniel S. Fowler, Shadi A. Razak, Chris Matrakidis, Hu Yuan, Andrew Lord; IET Quantum Communication, 5 (1), 38-45; 2024; DOI:10.1049/qtc2.12067; PDF; Journal's top cited.
A Practical Implementation of Quantum-Derived Keys for Secure Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Communications; Daniel S. Fowler, Carsten Maple, Gregory Epiphaniou; Vehicles, 5 (4), 1586-1604; 2023; DOI:10.3390/vehicles5040086; PDF
Analysis of outage performance in a 6G-V2X communications system utilising free-space optical quantum key distribution; Hu Yuan, Daniel S. Fowler, Carsten Maple, Gregory Epiphaniou; IET Quantum Communication, 4 (4), 191-199; 2023; DOI:10.1002/jsc.2555; PDF
Aspects of resilience for smart manufacturing systems; Daniel S. Fowler, Gregory Epiphaniou, Matthew D. Higgins, Carsten Maple; Strategic Change, 32 (6), 183-193; 2023; DOI:10.1002/jsc.2555; PDF; Journal's top viewed 12 months from 2023.
A 5G Automated-Guided Vehicle SME Testbed for Resilient Future Factories; Daniel S. Fowler, Yuen Kwan Mo, Alex Evans, Son Dinh-Van, Bilal Ahmad, Matthew D. Higgins, Carsten Maple; IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society 4, 242-258; 2023; DOI:10.1109/OJIES.2023.3291234; PDF
A Defensive Strategy Against Beam Training Attack in 5G mm Wave Networks for Manufacturing; Son Dinh-Van, Tiep M. Hoang, Berna Bulut Cebecioglu, Daniel S. Fowler, Yuen Kwan Mo, Matthew D. Higgins; IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 18, 2204-2217; 2023; DOI:10.1109/TIFS.2023.3265341; PDF
Vehicular Over-the-Air Software Upgrade Threat Modelling; Rudi Mocnik, Daniel S. Fowler, Carsten Maple; Cenex-LCV and Cenex-CAM 2023, UTAC Millbrook, UK; 2023; PDF
Sub-6 GHz Channel Modeling and Evaluation in Indoor Industrial Environments; Berna Bulut Cebecioglu, Yuen Kwan Mo, Son Dinh-Van, Daniel S. Fowler, Alex Evans, Aparajithan Sivanathan, Erik Kampert, Bilal Ahmad, Matthew D. Higgins; IEEE Access, 10, 127742-127753; 2022; DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3227052; PDF
Cybersecurity Assurance and Certification for Systems; Daniel S. Fowler, Gregory Epiphaniou, Carsten Maple; WMG; 2022; DOI:10.13140/RG.2.2.11527.16805/1; PDF
Affected Vehicle Population In Automotive Cyber Risk Assessments; Daniel S. Fowler, Carsten Maple; Competitive Advantage in the Digital Economy (CADE 2022); 2022; DOI:10.1049/icp.2022.2025; PDF
Cybersecurity Engineering in Connected and Automated Mobility: Cyber Resilience in Transportation; Daniel S. Fowler; Cyber Security Summit Brazil 2021; Online; 2021; PDF
LiDAR Sensor Security of a Driverless Pod; Daniel S. Fowler, Anh Tuan Le, Carsten Maple; WMG; 2021; DOI:10.13140/RG.2.2.15304.24322; PDF
Project BeARCAT : Baselining, Automation and Response for CAV Testbed Cyber Security : Connected Vehicle & Infrastructure Security Assessment; WMG, Cisco, Telefonica; Zenzic; Editor and Contributor: Daniel S. Fowler; 2020; PDF
A Fuzz Testing Methodology for Cyber-security Assurance of the Automotive CAN Bus; Daniel S. Fowler; Doctoral Thesis; Coventry University; 2019; PDF
A Method for Constructing Automotive Cybersecurity Tests, a CAN Fuzz Testing Example; Daniel S. Fowler, Jeremy Bryans, Madeline Cheah, Paul Wooderson, Siraj Ahmed Shaikh; 2019 IEEE 19th International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security Companion (QRS-C); 2019; Sofia, Bulgaria; DOI:10.1109/QRS-C.2019.00015; PDF
Fuzz Testing for Automotive Cyber-Security; Daniel S. Fowler, Jeremy Bryans, Siraj Ahmed Shaikh, Paul Wooderson; 2018 48th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks Workshops (DSN-W), Luxembourg; 2018; DOI:10.1109/DSN-W.2018.00070; PDF
Automating fuzz test generation to improve the security of the Controller Area Network; Daniel S. Fowler, Jeremy Bryans, Siraj Ahmed Shaikh; ACM Chapters Computer Science in Cars Symposium (CSCS 2017), Munich, Germany; 2017; PDF; Poster
Threat Intelligence for Bluetooth-enabled Systems with Automotive Applications: An Empirical Study; Madeline Cheah, Jeremy Bryans, Daniel S. Fowler, Siraj Ahmed Shaikh; 2017 47th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks Workshops (DSN-W), Denver, USA; 2017; DOI:10.1109/DSN-W.2017.22; PDF
Towards a Testbed for Automotive Cybersecurity; Daniel S. Fowler, Madeline Cheah, Siraj Ahmed Shaikh, Jeremy Bryans; 2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), 540-541, Tokyo, Japan; 2017; DOI:10.1109/ICST.2017.62; Best Industry Paper Award;PDF
Meta-Cyber Security System; Daniel S. Fowler, Madeline Cheah, Robert Bird; Digital Forensics Magazine, 26-30; 2015; URL:https://digitalforensicsmagazine.com/issue-22-out-now/; PDF
Computer Network Systems, including MAP, and their Relevance to a Small Industrial Company; Daniel S. Fowler; Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Systems Engineering, 43-50; Coventry, UK; 1998; ISBN:1853160076; PDF