Sandra Scott-Hayward is an Associate Professor at Queen’s University Belfast. She began her career in industry and became a Chartered Engineer in 2006. Since joining academia, she has contributed security designs and solutions for softwarized networks based on her research on network security architectures and security functions for emerging networks. She is Director of the QUB Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Education (ACE-CSE), co-lead of the QUB Leverhulme Interdisciplinary Network on Algorithmic Solutions (LINAS) doctoral training programme, and a Polymath Fellow of the Global Fellowship Initiative at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) from 2021 to 2023. With LINAS and GCSP, she explores the impact of ML and AI technologies on security and society.