Critical Infrastructure Protection & ICT Gender Equality (Women in IT) Guest Speaker's Travel Grant Nov 1, 2018 - Dec 31, 2018
1st event: a speaker for the Cyber Security Conference (Critical Infrastructure Protection) (200 words):

Industrial Control Systems(ICS) are widely used in critical infrastructure such as nuclear power plants, water, and transportation industries... Read More about Critical Infrastructure Protection & ICT Gender Equality (Women in IT) Guest Speaker's Travel Grant.

Shared Secret Steganography for Usable Mnemonic Based Security Mar 1, 2019 - Apr 30, 2020
This project will use steganography technology and shared secrets to improve the usability of the process of recovering cryptocurrency/distributed ledger wallet. It will do so by encoding parts of the recovery mnemonic within images, which can then b... Read More about Shared Secret Steganography for Usable Mnemonic Based Security.

Freemove Innovation Voucher May 1, 2019 - Aug 31, 2020
A project to provide decentralised identity for meeting KYC & AML requirements in the property industry.

MemoryCrypt Sep 1, 2019 - Feb 29, 2020
The usage of encryption keys is an important aspect in preserving privacy in communications. Increasingly these communications are protected using SSL/TLS methods. Along with this, there is a general move towards using virtualised infrastructures for... Read More about MemoryCrypt.

Internet Search Improved By User-side Data Sep 1, 2019 - Jun 30, 2020
The objective is to clearly demonstrate that better internet search can be achieved through the use of user-side personalisation (under the full control of the user) and with no personal data revealed to external third-party services. One essential i... Read More about Internet Search Improved By User-side Data.

Cryptodoc Jun 1, 2019 - Sep 30, 2019
This project aims to investigate the integration of a cipher policy for the protection of data, and how these can be applied into a cloud-based infrastructure. A key focus for the implementation will be in the creation of a simple cipher policy for t... Read More about Cryptodoc.

Repairing Polluted Artificial Intelligent Systems with Machine Unlearning Dec 1, 2019 - Jul 31, 2021
This project is intended to seek in-depth understanding of the new promising decentralised machine learning scheme, namely federated learning, and develop a proof-of-concept algorithm-independent unlearning scheme for federated learning. Our new mach... Read More about Repairing Polluted Artificial Intelligent Systems with Machine Unlearning.

OPTIMSING U>P Security and Anonymised Data Cloud Analysis for Duty of Care and Business Continuity Sep 7, 2020 - Jun 30, 2021
This project will build on the work that has already been done by U>P to develop the MVP (Minimum Viable Product), which delivers people analytics data through active data gathering, and the work done by Professor Bill Buchanan’s Centre for Distribut... Read More about OPTIMSING U>P Security and Anonymised Data Cloud Analysis for Duty of Care and Business Continuity.

MemCrypt Apr 1, 2020 - Jul 31, 2020
At the core of the work is to addresses risks related to the leakage of encryption keys, and which can lead to data loss issues and trust breaches. Along with detecting keys in memory, the team has developed new techniques related to timing attacks w... Read More about MemCrypt.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered dashboard for COVID-19 related public sentiment and opinion mining in social media platforms May 1, 2020 - Nov 17, 2020
: The project will aid in understanding and mitigating the direct and indirect impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, by creating an AI-driven dashboard for policymakers, public health and clinical practitioners. This will enable continuous monitoring, pr... Read More about Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered dashboard for COVID-19 related public sentiment and opinion mining in social media platforms.

Memcrypt (HGSP) Sep 15, 2020 - Mar 31, 2021
Memcrypt focuses on new ways of detecting the usage encryption keys, and has a focus on addressing ransomware.

MEMCRYPT CyberASAP Phase 2 Sep 23, 2020 - Feb 28, 2021
Ransomware is a form of malicious software that blocks user access to data by encrypting files. A user is then required to pay the attacker a sum of money to receive the encryption artefacts and start recovering the data. MEMCRYPT has developed new t... Read More about MEMCRYPT CyberASAP Phase 2.

RoadSage- Autonomously warns on-road tailgaters May 1, 2021 - Nov 30, 2021
The ultimate aim of the project “RoadSage” is to minimize the number of car accidents taking place daily on the roads caused by tailgating. Hence, this project seeks to build an IoT-based system that has the capacity to autonomously warn tailgaters... Read More about RoadSage- Autonomously warns on-road tailgaters.

SICSA Research Theme Event for IEEE DSC 2022 Jul 1, 2021 - Jul 10, 2022
The IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing seeks papers, posters, and experiences for presenting innovative research results, solutions, and new challenges in the field of dependable and secure computing. This comprises the whole spectrum... Read More about SICSA Research Theme Event for IEEE DSC 2022.

Consensus-based Blockchain File Versioning Jun 1, 2021 - Sep 30, 2021
This project aim to version files and support roll-back on a ransomware infection.

Scottish Gaelic Generation for Exhibitions Feb 1, 2022 - Mar 31, 2023
Developing resources and prototype systems for Natural Language Generation in Scottish Gaelic for cultural and artistic exhibits.

Innovative Distributed Platform for Educational Content Jan 15, 2022 - Jun 30, 2022
This project aims to setup a dynamic sharing content platform for tutor led plans using Hyperledger Fabric and IPFS.

PlatfoRm OF policy Evaluation community for improvED EU policies and Better ACKnowledgement Oct 18, 2021 - Oct 17, 2025
The Action PROFEEDBACK aims to foster the networking of the policy evaluation community at EU-level, raise awareness on the importance of evaluation policy research and improve its impact on policy-making. The Platform, following a bottom-up and open... Read More about PlatfoRm OF policy Evaluation community for improvED EU policies and Better ACKnowledgement.

Software-Hardware Ecosystems for AI Edge Devices (SHE) Oct 1, 2022 - Sep 30, 2023
AI hardware solutions are only useful if they’re compatible with all other layers of the technology stack, including the solutions and use cases in the services layer. Researchers in AI hardware can take two paths to achieve this goal. First, they co... Read More about Software-Hardware Ecosystems for AI Edge Devices (SHE).

TrueDeploy - CyberASAP Phase 1 Apr 1, 2022 - Jul 31, 2022
The way in which we develop and supply secure, trusted software is broken. The dominance of open-source software and the interconnectedness of software between organisations has raised cybersecurity risks in the software supply chain.

The Solar... Read More about TrueDeploy - CyberASAP Phase 1.