Projects (89)

Distinguished Visiting Fellow on AI-driven Cyber Security Jun 1, 2024 - Dec 31, 2024
Dr Houbing Song's visit will facilitate collaborations between Scottish-based Computer Scientists and North America-based Computer Scientists. Researchers at the host institution will be in a good position to participate in U.S.-UK Research Collabora... Read More about Distinguished Visiting Fellow on AI-driven Cyber Security.

TrueDeploy - ICURe Explore Apr 28, 2024 - Jul 26, 2024
12 weeks full-time programme to help research teams get out of the lab and explore the commercial potential of their research/technology.
TrueDeploy is an innovative platform designed to demystify and streamline software security, especially for... Read More about TrueDeploy - ICURe Explore.

SafeNet: Unleashing Robust Security Measures to Safeguard IoT Networks Sep 1, 2024 - Aug 31, 2025
In today's interconnected world, the proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) has led to an unprecedented surge in the volume of connected devices revolutionizing industries and reshaping our daily lives. However, the increasing reliance on IoT... Read More about SafeNet: Unleashing Robust Security Measures to Safeguard IoT Networks.

Privacy- and Consent-aware Data Sharing with Machine Learning Aug 1, 2024 - Aug 31, 2025
The the basic elements of the research work; this will include key objectives of:
-Define an architecture of digital trust and identity integration using a Distributed Ledger.
- Integrate a citizen-controlled consent model for data-sharing attribu... Read More about Privacy- and Consent-aware Data Sharing with Machine Learning.

TrueDeploy - Scottish Enterprise HGSP Company Creation Aug 1, 2022 - Mar 15, 2025
The way in which we develop, supply, and secure software is often weak and lacks digital trust. The dominance of open-source software and the interconnectedness of software between organisations has raised cybersecurity risks in the software supply c... Read More about TrueDeploy - Scottish Enterprise HGSP Company Creation.

Mapping Capacities for a Community Policing of Cybercrime and Digital Harm Sep 1, 2021 - Dec 31, 2024
Research exploring cybercrime policing has tended to focus on specialist policing units on the one hand (Harkin, Whelan and Change, 2018), and on the inherent limits of public policing organisations on the other; multi jurisdictional, insufficient tr... Read More about Mapping Capacities for a Community Policing of Cybercrime and Digital Harm.

Distributed single sign-on-stack-on e-Governance Paradigm based on a distributed peer-to-peer (P2P) file exchange network for security, transparency, cost effectiveness and trust - GLASS Jan 1, 2021 - Dec 31, 2023
The VISION of the GLASS is to develop a single-on distributed solution that is open source, efficient and inclusive, transparent, cross-border functional, user- friendly, end-to-end encrypted combining state of the art ICT methodologies towards an ad... Read More about Distributed single sign-on-stack-on e-Governance Paradigm based on a distributed peer-to-peer (P2P) file exchange network for security, transparency, cost effectiveness and trust - GLASS.

Data Sharing in Highly Secure Environments Nov 4, 2024 - May 3, 2027
In several areas of government there is a requirement for strong control of data sharing. This KTP investigates the usage of PQC (Post Quantum Cryptography) and Homomorphic Encryption (HE) to protect data.

TRUST: Centre of Excellence in Distributed Ledger Technologies Jan 6, 2025 - Aug 31, 2027
The world is increasingly moving towards decentralised systems that support privacy, trustworthiness, and integrity in every part of a transaction. The usage of distributed ledger technology (DLT) to record and trace transactions allows enhancement m... Read More about TRUST: Centre of Excellence in Distributed Ledger Technologies.

Cross-lingual Audio-visual Speech Enhancement based on Deep Multimodal Learning Jun 1, 2023 - May 31, 2026
Speech enhancement and separation techniques are often used to improve the quality and intelligibility of speech degraded by background distractions, including speech and non-speech noises. We aim to change the current landscape of research and innov... Read More about Cross-lingual Audio-visual Speech Enhancement based on Deep Multimodal Learning.

TrueDeploy - ICURe Exploit Jul 29, 2024 - Oct 18, 2024
As part of ICURe Explore, we pitched to a panel of experts. We have been successful in this, and have been invited to participated in its next stage which is called ICURe Exploit.

AI-based privacy-preserving biometric authentication with mass-market smart devices Oct 1, 2021 - Sep 30, 2024
Increasingly our identity is key to our online security, and where online services must integrate with these, in order to provide increased levels of trust. But there are now many constraints in how biometric and behavioural data can be used within t... Read More about AI-based privacy-preserving biometric authentication with mass-market smart devices.

TrueDeploy - Enterprise Fellowship Jul 1, 2023 - Jun 30, 2024
TrueDeploy is committed to providing secure and cost-effective software solutions by simplifying the development, supply, and security processes. Our solution offers tracking and accounting of each software element throughout the development process,... Read More about TrueDeploy - Enterprise Fellowship.

Security and Privacy in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks Mar 1, 2022 - Sep 30, 2024
The great leap forward in wireless communications technology drives the recent advancements of Vehicular Ad hoc NETworks (VANETs). As a key part of the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) framework, VANETs offer active road safety, and traffic e... Read More about Security and Privacy in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks.

TruElect Oct 9, 2023 - Oct 8, 2025
This KTP project aims to building a trustworthy infrastructure for the voting process, including using trusted methods of citizen identity, voting sustation, and privacy preserving methods.

Evaluation of Federated Machine Unlearning using Membership Inference Attacks Oct 1, 2023 - Sep 30, 2026
Federated Learning (FL) is a type of distributed Machine Learning (ML) training technique that allows for accurate predictions without sharing sensitive data. This is possible, as FL allows everyone to train their own localised model and only share t... Read More about Evaluation of Federated Machine Unlearning using Membership Inference Attacks.

PhD Studentship (Homomorphic Encryption) Oct 1, 2023 - Sep 30, 2026
This PhD studentship will be funded at £10k per year for a period of three years, and focus on homomorphic encryption in 5G / 6G network slices and strategies to foster and enhance federated structures in the medtech and health domains. SCEBE will pr... Read More about PhD Studentship (Homomorphic Encryption).

Cyber Hunt May 1, 2022 - Apr 30, 2025
Automated Cyberthreat Hunting and Cyber-relevant Incident Response for Critical Infrastructures. CyberHunt will develop highly innovative cybersecurity technologies that can sense, detect, analyse, disrupt and outmaneuver adversarial attacks in cybe... Read More about Cyber Hunt.

TrustShare: Privacy-Preserving And Trusted Threat Intelligence Sharing Using Distributed Ledgers May 9, 2023 - Sep 8, 2024
Organisations are facing an increasing number of cyber threats, which is making it evident that relying solely on security tools and technologies may fail to identify emerging threats, malware, and other indicators of compromise. As a result, organis... Read More about TrustShare: Privacy-Preserving And Trusted Threat Intelligence Sharing Using Distributed Ledgers.

TrueDeploy - CyberASAP 2023-2024 - Phase 1 May 9, 2023 - Sep 8, 2023
The way in which we develop, supply, and secure software is often weak and lacks digital trust. The dominance of open-source software and the interconnectedness of software between organisations has raised cybersecurity risks in the software supply c... Read More about TrueDeploy - CyberASAP 2023-2024 - Phase 1.