Digital and Security Engineering Research Theme
About
Digital and Security Engineering. The strategy is to provide wide-ranging expert capability, supporting industry and the digital economy, including the application of industry 4.0 principles with secure communications, supporting clean growth, boosting the expansion of the creative industries; within robust frameworks of security privacy and trust.
Members
Group leader. Cyber Security, Mobile Communications, Embedded Systems, Smart Cards, RFIDs, NFC, Cyber-Physical, CNI |
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Applications of Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition to Biomedical Engineering |
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Voice production, analysis, synthesis and rehabilitation | |
Brain computer interface, biomedical signal processing, deep learning | |
Adaptive compute acceleration platforms, Machine learning in olfaction, Signal processing in gas sensors. | |
Security of Cyber-Physical Systems, Formal models for the security of distributed systems, network models and security, critical national infrastructures |
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Dr Anush Yardim |
Signal representation and processing for communications, audio, instrumentation and biomedical applications with special emphasis on digital filter design. |
Research
- Vocal Tract Organ music and vocal sounds (3,000 year-old Egyptian Mummy)
- Immersive audio via 3-D (24.1) Audio Lab
- AI and machine learning
- Signal Processing for Healthcare
- Data processing in olfaction
- AI engines for Adaptive compute acceleration platform
- Cyber-physical systems and critical infrastructure security
- Mobile communications and device security
- Embedded security and Hardware Security Modules
- Smart Card/RFID and NFC systems
- Modelling and analysis of cyber-physical
- Systems and their security based on combinatorial and formal logic methods
- Modelling and analysis of network protocols and distributed systems, particularly in control systems
- Combinatorial and algebraic models of networks with applications to critical national infrastructure networks
- Waveform diversity and efficient digital filter design
Selected publications
Synthesis of a Vocal Sound from the 3,000 year old Mummy, Nesyamun ‘True of Voice’. / Howard, D.M., Schofield, J, Fletcher, J, Baxter, K, Iball, G, Buckley, S. In Nature Scientific Reports, 10, 4500, 1-6. (2020).
P2PEdge: A Decentralised, Scalable P2P Architecture for Energy Trading in Real-Time / Kalbantner, J., Markantonakis, K., Hurley-Smith, D., Akram, R. N. and Semal B., In Energies, (14), 3, p.1-25 , 606, 2021;
Enhanced Cyber-Physical Security Using Attack-resistant Cyber Nodes and Event-triggered Moving Target Defence. / Mayes, Keith; Higgins, Martin; Teng, Fei. In: IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications, 23.12.2020.
Deep Neural Architectures for Mapping Scalp to Intracranial EEG (2018). Antoniades, A.; Spyrou, Loukianos; Martin-Lopez, David; Valentin, Antonio; Alarcon, Gonzalo; Sanei, Saeid; Cheong Took, Clive / In International Journal of Neural Systems, Vol. 28, No. 8, 1850009, 10.04.2018, p. 1.
An End-User Platform for FPGA-Based Design and Rapid Prototyping of Feedforward Artificial Neural Networks With On-Chip Backpropagation Learning / Tisan, A-S. and Chin, J., Jun 2016, In: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 12, 3, p. 1124-1133
Adversary Model for Attacks Against IEC 61850 Real-Time Communication Protocols / L.O. Nweke, G.K. Weldehawaryat, S.D. Wolthusen. In Proc. 2020 16th International Conference on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN 2020), Mar. 2020 (Milano, Italy). IEEE Press
Robust IIR Digital Filter Sharpening / Cain, G.D., A. Yardim and F. J. Harris, 2020 28th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Amsterdam, pp. 2329-2333, Jan. 2021.
Efficient Algorithm To Implement Sliding Singular Spectrum Analysis With Application To Biomedical Signal Denoising. / Saeed, Muzammil; Cheong Took, Clive; Alty, Stephen. In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Barcelona, Spain, pp. 1026-1029, 2020.