Research group: Secure and Intelligent Systems (SISTEM)

About our research

Our research creates products with a positive social impact, contributes to economic growth, and improves society through scientific advancements. We work across three key areas:

AI security and intelligent systems

• Security of AI systems, and challenges like bias, fairness and the autonomous weaponisation of AI.
• Designing end-to-end intelligent systems incorporating multiple AI models and helping to achieve the net zero vision. 
• Developing industrial products for predictive maintenance and analysis, precision agriculture and more. 

Cybersecurity

• Zero-day exploits, ransomware, insider threats and vulnerabilities.
• 5G and internet of things (IoT) security. 
• Post-quantum cryptography and digital forensics.
• The safety and security of emerging applications.

Next-generation communication systems: 5G, 6G, IoT, satellite and the metaverse

• Resource allocation: ultra-low latency, spectrum allocation, efficiency and sustainability. 
• Communication: seamless connectivity and interoperability, edge computing.
• Privacy, trust and security.  

• AI safety and security, Turing Network. 
• A blueprint for dynamic optimal task allocation in human-AI teaming, Northwest Partnership for Security and Trust (NWPST).
• FarmSense - an affordable, modular internet of things enabled pre-harvest test and predictive analytics solution, UKRI’s Global Challenges Research Fund. 
• Lightweight and efficient post-quantum cryptography (PQC) for secure-by-design internet of medical things (IoMT), NWCyberCom.
• Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, IEEE Communication Society.
• Designing innovative predictive analysis approaches for the food packaging industry, Innovate UK. 
• AI to improve productivity and efficiency of the supply chain industry, Innovate UK. 
• SAFE Home: Security-aware fog-based efficient home monitoring for elders, CELTIC-NEXT, EU. 
• Analyzing attacker traffic using deep learning, NTT Japan.