Dr Harjinder Singh Lallie, OBE

Teaching cyber security. Investigating what went wrong.

I am a Reader at WMG, University of Warwick, and Director of ACE-CSE, the UK's largest Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Education. My work spans digital forensics research, national cyber skills policy, and a lifelong commitment to Sikh music and education.

RoleReader, University of Warwick

DirectsACE-CSE, 36 staff, three NCSC-certified degrees

HonourOBE

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Achievements at a glance

Two decades of cyber security, forensics and education

Honour
OBE, King's New Year Honours 2026, for services to Musical Heritage, to Faith Communities and to Integration.
Leadership
Director of ACE-CSE, the UK's largest Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Education, with 36 staff and three NCSC-certified degrees. Academic Lead at inception of the UK Cyber Security Council's chartered pathway for academics. Lead of the UK's digital forensics teaching and learning community, Teaching Digital Forensics.
Policy
Adviser to the UK Cyber Security Council, the NCSC-GCHQ Advisory Panel on Cyber Security Education, the Home Office Academic Working Group and the West Midlands Cyber Steering Group.
Research
72 publications, including 37 journal papers on attack graphs, dashcam and mobile forensics, cyber attacks during the pandemic and the Post Office Horizon scandal. Principal Investigator on a £90,000 NCSC project. 3,178 citations, h-index 22 and i10-index 27. Top 2% of Stanford-Elsevier Global Scientists (2024, 2026). Google Scholar profile
Teaching
Student feedback averaging 93%, with teaching grounded in pedagogic publication and guest lectures delivered at home and abroad. Academic Lead for WiCyS UK and CyberWomen@Warwick, supporting both until they were established at Warwick, and Strategic and Academic Lead for CyberSafe, which has reached more than 38,000 students.
Sikh music
Founder of the Gurmat Sangeet Academy, the largest Sikh music school outside India. Led the development of the Sikh Sacred Music exams, an eight-grade, UCAS-bearing qualification. Led the Sikh Gramophone Project, which digitised and released 127 of the earliest recorded Sikh pieces, and has released four albums in 2026.