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Digital and Security Engineering

Digital and Security Engineering

Digital and Security Engineering Research Theme

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.

 

Prof Keith Mayes

Group leader. Cyber Security, Mobile Communications, Embedded Systems, Smart Cards, RFIDs, NFC, Cyber-Physical, CNI

Dr Stephen Alty

Applications of Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition to Biomedical Engineering

Prof David M Howard

Voice production, analysis, synthesis and rehabilitation

Dr Clive Cheong

Brain computer interface, biomedical signal processing, deep learning

Dr Darren Hurley-Smith

 

Dr Kostas Markantonakis

 

Dr Alin Tisan

Adaptive compute acceleration platforms, Machine learning in olfaction, Signal processing in gas sensors.

Prof Stephen Wolthusen

Security of Cyber-Physical Systems, Formal models for the security of distributed systems, network models and security, critical national infrastructures

Dr Anush Yardim

Signal representation and processing for communications, audio, instrumentation and biomedical applications with special emphasis on digital filter design.

  • 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

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.

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