Dr Kimberly Tam gained a B.S in Computer and System Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the USA and a PhD in Information Security from Royal Holloway University of London in the UK.  She is currently an associate professor at the University of Plymouth and researches the area of cyber-security in all things maritime.  She is currently the academic lead for the Cyber-SHIP project, PI of a Maritime Autonomous System AI security project, and co-I in a number of other maritime cybersecurity projects across a number of topics including security of vessels, ports, and offshore platforms. She is also the theme lead for Marine and Maritime at the Alan Turing Institute’s Data Centric Engineering 2.0 Project.