Cyber Security & Systems Engineering                                     

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.

Intelligent Resource Allocation in Industrial IoT

Supervisor: Prof Ahmed Al-Dubai

Collaborative Edge Computing for Vehicular Networks

Supervisor: Prof Ahmed Al-Dubai

Realising Internet-scale Network Telemetry

Supervisor: Dr Matthew Broadbent

zk-Cloud Forensics: Privacy-Aware and Tamper-proof Cloud Forensics using a Public Key Trust Infrastructure

Supervisor: Prof Bill Buchanan

Digital Twin Enabled Wind Farm Management Using Graph Databases

Supervisor: Prof Berk Canberk

Smart Attack Detection and Mitigation for Autonomous Core Networks Using Digital Twin

Supervisor: Prof Berk Canberk

Fast and Secure Muti-party Comutation Techniques

Supervisor: Dr Baraq Ghaleb

Smart, and Energy-Efficient Countermeasures for the IoT Security Attacks

Supervisor: Dr Baraq Ghaleb

Chaos-based Mutlimedia Encryption and Watermarking Schemes

Supervisor: Dr Jawad Ahmad

Compact MIMO antennas for 6G mobile device

Supervisor: Dr Petros Karadimas

Physical layer security for connected autonomous vehicles

Supervisor: Dr Petros Karadimas

Autonomous Underwater Vehicle with multi-sensors prototype for underwater onsite monitoring

Supervisor: Dr Abdelfateh Kerrouche

Optical fibre sensors for overhead conductor line sag monitoring in smart grid

Supervisor: Dr Abdelfateh Kerrouche

Quantum Metasurfaces for Cybersecurity Applications

Supervisor: Dr Luigi La Spada

Towards an Evolving Approach to Evaluate Security Monitoring Tools

Supervisor: Dr Mouad Lemoudden

Behavioural Analysis for Ransomware Detection

Supervisor: Rich Macfarlane

Novel E2E mechanisms for mobile devices

Supervisor: Prof Leandros Maglaras

Development of 3D Printed Electrodes for Hybrid Supercapacitors

Supervisor: Dr Libu Manjakkal

Flexible Electrochemical Multisensors For online Water Quality Monitoring

Supervisor: Dr Libu Manjakkal

Cyber Digital Twin for Clean Water Treatment Systems

Supervisor: Dr Naghmeh Moradpoor

A novel, secure, and cross platform Intrusion Detection System for protection of Critical National Infrastructure

Supervisor: Dr Naghmeh Moradpoor

High-Efficiency Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting System with Reconfigurable Surfaces

Supervisor: Dr Naser Ojaroudi Parchin

Development of Programmable Metasurfaces for Smart Connectivity

Supervisor: Dr Naser Ojaroudi Parchin

MIMO and Phased Array Antenna Systems for 5G/6G Wireless Communications

Supervisor: Dr Naser Ojaroudi Parchin

Privacy-preserving Systems around Security, Trust and Identity

Supervisor: Dr Pavlos Papadopoulos

Social Media Information Leakage and Privacy Preserving Mechanisms

Supervisor: Dr Nikolaos Pitropakis

Forensic storage carving using AI

Supervisor: Dr Gordon Russell

Introspection of Virtualised Services using AI

Supervisor: Dr Gordon Russell

Design and Development of Green miniaturised Balanced Antennas and Antenna Arrays for Internet of Things Applications

Supervisor: Dr Chan Hwang See

Microwave Long Range Wireless Power Transfer System

Supervisor: Dr Chan Hwang See

Development of Perovskite Solar Cells through 3D Printing

Supervisor: Dr Senthilarasu Sundaram

Textile wastewater removal using nanoparticle embedded graphene oxide membrane

Supervisor: Dr Senthilarasu Sundaram

Security of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure

Supervisor: Dr Zhiyuan Tan

Security and Privacy in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks

Supervisor: Dr Zhiyuan Tan

Mobile Edge Solutions for Energy and Performance Improvement in Wireless Sensor Networks

Supervisor: Dr Craig Thomson

Applying Machine Learning to the Detection of Suicide Propensities in Young Scottish Males

Supervisor: Dr Craig Thomson

Deep machine learning for zero-day adversarial intrusion detection in Internet-of-Things and Cyber-Physical Systems

Supervisor: Dr Sana Ullah Jan

Multi-modal machine learning for cybersecurity in the Internet-of-Things (IoT)

Supervisor: Dr Sana Ullah Jan

Advanced digital signal processing for condition monitoring for rotative electrical machines

Supervisor: Dr Francisco Vedreño Santos