The Centre for Cybersecurity, IoT and Cyber-physical systems (CIC) is the main research group associated with the Cybersecurity and Systems Engineering (CSE) subject group in the School of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment (SCEBE) at Edinburgh Napier University. The research, knowledge exchange, and innovation work covers a wide spectrum of areas including cybersecurity, networking, energy engineering, applied cryptography and blockchain, data science and cybersecurity, digital twins, intelligent control, robotics, wireless communications, sensors, RF system, digital forensics, electronics and IoT security. This applies is applied into many application areas, including FinTech, NetZero, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Health Care, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Identity Systems, 5G/6G wireless networks and Law Enforcement.
Overall, the Centre is led by seven internationally-leading professors (Bill Buchanan, Hongnian Yu, Amir Hussain, Ahmed Al-Dubai, Leandros Maglaras, Berk Canberk and Xiadong Liu), 10 Associate Professors and 26 Academics, and has received a wide range of funding including from EPSRC, Horizon Europe, Innovate UK and industry. For engineering, the subject group is rated in the Top 250 in the world in the recent Times Higher World University rankings, and within the Top 300 for Computer Science. The Centre also has 20 leading academics who are rated in the Top 2% of scientific authors within 2022. A core strength of the Centre is the translation of research into high impact outputs and impacts to industry. This includes three highly successful spin-out companies (Zonefox, Symphonic and Cyacomb), along with two forthcoming spin-outs (True Deploy and LastingAsset). For its submission to REF 2021, 38% of its research outputs were rated as world-class (4*), and its impact case studies were all rated as world-leading.
Funded
Multimodal Multilingual Sentiment Analysis (Funded)
Supervisor – Dr Kia Dashtipour
Adaptive physical layer security for connected autonomous vehicles (Funded)
Supervisor – Prof. Petros Karadimas
Optimum antenna arrays for 6G wireless communications (Funded)
Supervisor – Prof. Petros Karadimas
Optimum compact MIMO antennas for 6G mobile devices (Funded)
Supervisor – Prof. Petros Karadimas
Multi-Three-Phase Drives for Electric Transport (Funded)
Supervisor – Dr Savvas Papadopoulos
Exploring cyberattacks against AI and their real-world impact (Funded)
Supervisor – Dr Nikolaos Pitropakis
Supervisor – Dr Chan Hwang See
Wireless Power, Sensing and Communication Network (Funded)
Supervisor – Dr Chan Hwang See
Utilisation of Machine Learning for Intrusion Detection in IoT Networks (Funded)
Supervisor – Dr Craig Thomson
Advanced digital signal processing for condition monitoring for rotative electical machines (Funded)
Supervisor – Dr Francisco Vedreno Santos
Self funded
Supervisor – Dr Jubaer Ahmed
Supervisor – Prof. Bill Buchanan
Advanced Encryption Research for Orbital Systems and Aerospace Field Encryption (Self funded)
Supervisor – Dr. Luigi La Spada
Supervisor – Dr. Luigi La Spada
Supervisor – Dr. Luigi La Spada
Novel E2E mechanisms for mobile devices (Self funded)
Supervisor – Prof. Leandros Maglaras
On-the-go EV charging methods (Self funded)
Supervisor – Prof. Leandros Maglaras
Secure V2V Communication for self-driving NETworks (Self funded)
Supervisor – Prof. Leandros Maglaras
Flexible Electrochemical Multi sensors For online Water Quality Monitoring (Self funded)
Supervisor – Dr Libu Manjakkal
An Electric Vehicle and Electric Vehicle Charging Station Incident Response Playbook (Self funded)
Supervisor – Dr Naghmeh Moradpoor
Communication Efficiency for Federated Learning in Critical Infrastructure (Self funded)
Supervisor – Dr Naghmeh Moradpoor
Novel Model Aggregation Techniques for Federated Learning in Critical Infrastructure (Self funded)
Supervisor – Dr Naghmeh Moradpoor
Intelligent Metamaterials/Metasurfaces for 5G/6G Wireless Networks (Self funded)
Supervisor – Dr Naser Ojaroudi Parchin
Phased Array Antenna Systems for MM-Wave/THz Communications (Self funded)
Supervisor – Dr Naser Ojaroudi Parchin
Reconfigurable Surfaces for High-Efficiency RF Energy Harvesting (Self funded)
Supervisor – Dr Naser Ojaroudi Parchin
Forensic storage carving using AI (Self funded)
Supervisor – Dr Gordon Russell
Introspection of Virtual Machines using AI (Self funded)
Supervisor – Dr Gordon Russell
Machine unlearning for large language models (Self funded)
Supervisor – Dr Zhiyuan Tan
Security and Privacy in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (Self funded)
Supervisor – Dr Zhiyuan Tan
Security of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure (Self funded)
Supervisor – Dr Zhiyuan Tan