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.

• 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.