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