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Dr Joshua Curry
Teaching Fellow
School of Electronics and Computer Science

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About

Dr Joshua Curry is a Teaching Fellow in the Cyber Security Group, working in the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton. With over 10 years of research and enterprise experience across the domains of cyber security, environmental sensing and the Internet of Things (IoT), Josh develops research-led-teaching for undergraduate courses covering a variety of topics across Electronics and Computer Science.

Teaching Portfolio

2025-26

COMP3217 - Security of Cyber Physical Systems (module lead)
COMP6254 - Digital Forensics (lecturer)
AICE2003 - Electronics (lecturer)
ELEC1300 - Part I Laboratory Programme (lecturer)
ELEC2300 - Electrical Engineering Design (lecturer)
ELEC6231 - VLSI Design Project (lecturer)

COMP3200 - Part III Individual Project (supervisor, examiner)
ELEC6200 - Part IV Group Design Project (supervisor)
COMP6200 - MSc Project (examiner)
Postgraduate Research (PhD) (supervisor, examiner)

2024-25

COMP3217 - Security of Cyber Physical Systems (module lead)
ELEC2216 - Advanced Electronic Systems (module lead)
ELEC2217 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering Design (lecturer)
ELEC6231 - VLSI Design Project (lecturer)
COMP3200 - Part III Individual Project (supervisor)
Postgraduate Research (PhD) (examiner)

2023-24

COMP3226 - Web and Cloud Security (lecturer)
COMP6230 - Network and Web Security (lecturer)
COMP6236 - Software Security (lecturer)
ELEC2216 - Advanced Electronic Systems (lecturer)
ELEC2217 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering Design (lecturer)
ELEC6231 - VLSI Design Project (lecturer)

Began ECS roles as [Module Survey Coordinator] and [Student Helpdesk Coordinator]
Joined the ECS Taster Course team as [Electronics Lead]

2018-2023

COMP3217 - Security of Cyber Physical Systems (assessment design)
COMP6236 - Software Security (assessment design)
COMP3226 - Web and Cloud Security (teaching assistant)
COMP6230 - Network and Web Security (teaching assistant)
COMP1203 - Computer Systems I (PGR demonstrator)
COMP1206 - Programming II (PGR demonstrator)
ELEC1029 - TT Electronic Labs Yr1 (PGR Demonstrator)

Research

My research interests cover the areas of hardware/software security, digital forensics, environmental sensing, the internet-of-things and radio frequency (RF) technologies. I frequently supervise both undergraduate and postgraduate projects in these areas.

For latest publications, please see Google Scholar.

2018-2024

During this time, I completed my PhD in Electronic and Electrical Engineering, focussing on the development of a novel pressure-based energy harvester for low-power IoT systems.

A pressure-based energy harvester for powering the environmental IoT (thesis)

Alongside my primary work, I also conducted tangential research into the testing and validation of flexible thermoelectric devices, which I then published at Eurosensors 2024.

Harvesting body temperature to power wearable systems using sputtered flexible thermoelectrics (inproceedings)

2017-2018

As a student, I was involved in a number of research projects across the department, including designing d-GPS Systems for Glacier monitoring, environmental sensing using distributed wireless chloride sensors and initiating my own research into low power wide area networks.

Development and range testing of a LoRaWAN system in an urban environment (article)
New Potentiometric Wireless Chloride Sensors Provide High Resolution Information on Chemical Transport Processes in Streams (inproceedings)
Cryospheric monitoring with new low power RTK dGPS systems (inproceedings)

Media Coverage

A media article from the University of Southampton covering my role in creating an inter-university cyber security competition entitled the "Higher Education Cyber Challenge", which was held at the university in 2019.

Southampton hosts one of the country’s largest inter-university cyber security challenges (2019)

As an undergraduate, and subsequently a PhD student, I participated in a range of capture-the-flag style events, scoring a number of top-three positions as part of the university CTF team.

Last Updated: July 2025