Biography

My name is Reilly Innes and I’m a Behavioural Scientist at Alpha Echo. My current research has focused on leading the devleopment of Alpha Echo’s Human Hardening Framework. This framework aims to better understand humans in the context of cybersecurity, providing a framework that is informed by behavioural science and best practice technical controls. The framework includes assessment methods, for understanding an organisations human-cyber capability, mitigation methods, for overcoming barriers to behaviours or minimising human risks, and resources to assist organisations in aligning their cyber infrastructure, initiatives and policy with human factors literature.

Previously, I worked as a Post Doc Researcher at the University of Amsterdam, where I studied decision making modelling in the Integrative Model-based Cognitive Neuroscience Research Unit. My work in the IMCN currently focused on methods of joint modelling, using data from behavioural decision making tasks and fMRI to gather greater insight into the functional (and structural) relationships between brain and behaviour. Prior to Amsterdam, I completed my thesis and worked as a post-doc at the Newcastle Cognition Lab. My thesis focused on extending methods of cognitive workload measurement to new environments and for new purposes. I then spent a year as a post doc in the Newcastle Cognition Lab, both as a part of the the PMwG team and on various cognitive modelling projects. Previously, I worked as a data analyst at Hunter New England Local Health District with the FluTracking team.

My work with the samplers team primarily involved making advanced statistical methods accessible to a broader community. This work has resulted in the Particle Metropolis within Gibbs (PMWG) R package, bookdown and now EMC software .