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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.<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Multimodal Multilingual Sentiment Analysis (Self funded)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Supervisor \u2013 Dr Kia Dashtipour<\/p>\n

Adaptive physical layer security for connected autonomous vehicles (Self funded)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Supervisor \u2013 Prof. Petros Karadimas<\/p>\n

Optimum antenna arrays for 6G wireless communications (Self funded)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Supervisor \u2013 Prof. Petros Karadimas<\/p>\n

Optimum compact MIMO antennas for 6G mobile devices (Self funded) <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Supervisor \u2013 Prof. Petros Karadimas<\/p>\n

Multi-Three-Phase Drives for Electric Transport (Self funded) <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Supervisor \u2013 Dr Savvas Papadopoulos<\/p>\n

Design and Development of Green Miniaturised Balanced Antennas and Antenna Arrays for Future Sustainable Electronics Devices (Self funded) <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Supervisor \u2013 Dr Chan Hwang See<\/p>\n

Wireless Power, Sensing and Communication Network (Self funded) <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Supervisor \u2013 Dr Chan Hwang See<\/p>\n

Utilisation of Machine Learning for Intrusion Detection in IoT Networks (Self funded) <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Supervisor \u2013 Dr Craig Thomson<\/p>\n

Advanced digital signal processing for condition monitoring for rotative electical machines (Self funded) <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Supervisor \u2013 Dr Francisco Vedreno Santos<\/p>\n

Developing a coordinated control for hybrid ac\/dc microgrids with renewable sources-battery storage under dynamic generation and load conditions (Self funded)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Supervisor \u2013 Dr Jubaer Ahmed<\/p>\n

zk-Cloud Forensics: Privacy-Aware and Tamper-proof Cloud Forensics using a Public Key Trust Infrastructure (Self funded)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Supervisor \u2013 Prof. Bill Buchanan<\/p>\n

Advanced Encryption Research for Orbital Systems and Aerospace Field Encryption (Self funded)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Supervisor \u2013 Dr. Luigi La Spada<\/p>\n

Machine Learning Algorithms for Improving Predictive Maintenance in Industrial Automation Systems (Self funded)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Supervisor \u2013 Dr. Luigi La Spada<\/p>\n

Quantum-Integrated Genomic Models for the Advancement in Early Detection and Understanding of Neurodevelopmental Disorders (Self funded)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Supervisor \u2013 Dr. Luigi La Spada<\/p>\n

Behavioural Analysis for Ransomware and Extortion-based Attack Detection <\/strong>(Self funded) <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Supervisor \u2013 Rich Macfarlane<\/p>\n

Novel E2E mechanisms for mobile devices (Self funded)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Supervisor \u2013 Prof. Leandros Maglaras<\/p>\n

On-the-go EV charging methods (Self funded)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Supervisor \u2013 Prof. Leandros Maglaras<\/p>\n

Secure V2V Communication for self-driving NETworks (Self funded) <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Supervisor \u2013 Prof. Leandros Maglaras<\/p>\n

Flexible Electrochemical Multi sensors For online Water Quality Monitoring (Self funded)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Supervisor \u2013 Dr Libu Manjakkal<\/p>\n

An Electric Vehicle and Electric Vehicle Charging Station Incident Response Playbook (Self funded)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Supervisor \u2013 Dr Naghmeh Moradpoor<\/p>\n

Communication Efficiency for Federated Learning in Critical Infrastructure (Self funded) <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Supervisor \u2013 Dr Naghmeh Moradpoor<\/p>\n

Novel Model Aggregation Techniques for Federated Learning in Critical Infrastructure (Self funded) <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Supervisor \u2013 Dr Naghmeh Moradpoor<\/p>\n

Intelligent Metamaterials\/Metasurfaces for 5G\/6G Wireless Networks (Self funded)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Supervisor \u2013 Dr Naser Ojaroudi Parchin<\/p>\n

Phased Array Antenna Systems for MM-Wave\/THz Communications (Self funded)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Supervisor \u2013 Dr Naser Ojaroudi Parchin<\/p>\n

Reconfigurable Surfaces for High-Efficiency RF Energy Harvesting (Self funded)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Supervisor \u2013 Dr Naser Ojaroudi Parchin<\/p>\n

Forensic storage carving using AI (Self funded) <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Supervisor \u2013 Dr Gordon Russell<\/p>\n

Introspection of Virtual Machines using AI (Self funded) <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Supervisor \u2013 Dr Gordon Russell<\/p>\n

Machine unlearning for large language models (Self funded)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Supervisor \u2013 Dr Zhiyuan Tan<\/p>\n

Security and Privacy in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (Self funded) <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Supervisor \u2013 Dr Zhiyuan Tan<\/p>\n

Security of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure (Self funded) <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Supervisor \u2013 Dr Zhiyuan Tan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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