Dr Andria Procopiou is a Cybersecurity Lecturer in the School of Sciences at City and a member of the Applied Security research centre at UCLan Cyprus. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the department of electrical and electronical engineering at City, University of London where she also completed her PhD at the department of computer science. The core of her research is divided between IoT/smart cities security and privacy and Extremism/Online Hate Analysis on social media and/or the metaverse using A.I. and machine learning. In addition, she is interested in researching how Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) is applied in cyber security, adversarial machine learning against cyber security countermeasures and A.I. ethics.