Professor Victor Chang of Aston University Named Cybersecurity Pr
Professor Victor Chang of Aston University Named Cybersecurity Pr
Publish Date: 2026-05-04 03:24:00
Source Domain: natlawreview.com
Prof Chang won the award
Prof Chang gave a keynote
BIRMINGHAM, UNITED KINGDOM, May 4, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Professor Victor Chang, Professor of Business Analytics at Aston Business School, Aston University, has been named Cybersecurity Professional of the Year 2026 by Cyber Security Awards, a global competition recognising outstanding contribution to the field. The award adds to a run of sector-specific recognitions that, taken together, reflect work operating well beyond the edges of academic research.
The recognition comes at a moment when Chang’s cybersecurity programme is expanding on multiple fronts. His self-developed FedAvgVChang architecture — a federated learning system for intrusion detection developed and validated extensively by himself for years, and also in collaboration with the University of Tokyo through the UK Government’s International Science Partnerships Fund — addresses a constraint that has long limited collaborative cyber defence: how organisations share threat intelligence when regulations rightly prevent them from sharing the raw data behind it. The approach trains detection models locally across distributed devices, so security knowledge spreads across institutional networks without sensitive records ever leaving their source. Results presented at the IEEE CyberSciTech/DASC/PICom/CBDCom 2025 conference in Hakodate, Japan, showed 97 percent detection accuracy on industrial benchmarks, with full threat-analysis cycles completing in under a second on low-cost edge hardware.
That architecture is part of a broader programme that has been adopted for more than a decade. Chang’s earlier Deep-IFS intrusion detection system remains active across data centres in England, Taiwan, and Singapore; his Cloud Computing Adoption Framework (CCAF) contributed to the evidence base for national guidance on sovereign AI security; and active Innovate UK-funded projects are extending these foundations into NHS clinical infrastructure,…
