For project details, please visit the Networks and Systems Laboratory (NetSys ) pages.
Current Projects and Grants
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UK AISI Systemic AI Safety grants “C3Infer: A Framework for Compartmentalized, Confidential, and Certified AI Inference “, £200k, 2025-2026
- EPSRC Open Plus Fellowship (EP/W005271/1: Securing the Next Billion Consumer Devices on the Edge, £1,5m, 2022-2027)
- EU CHIST-ERA (GNNs for Network Security (and Privacy) GRAPHS4SEC, €1,2m, 2024-2027)
- UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in Digital Healthcare (AI4Health), (EP/Y030974/1, £9.2M, September 2024- March 2033)
- SPRITE+2 HUB, The Security, Privacy, Identity and Trust Engagement Networkplus (phase 2): EPSRC Network Plus grant (EP/W020408/1, £2,652,185 , September 2023- August 2027)
Current Research Staff
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Dr Javad Forough, Postdoctoral Research Associate on the EPSRC Open Plus Fellowship (Securing the Next Billion Consumer Devices on the Edge)
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Amir Al Sadi, Postdoctoral Research Associate on the EPSRC Open Plus Fellowship (Securing the Next Billion Consumer Devices on the Edge)
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Zhonghao Zhan, Research Assistant on the Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for Robust AI/ML-driven Network Security Applications EU project Graphs4Sec
Current Research Students
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Josh Millar (Energy-aware ML, funded by Taylor Donation PhD Scholarship at Energy Futures Lab).
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Sina Abdollahi (Trusted Edge Computing, funded by Amazon Research Award and the Department of Computing Scholarship).
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Mohamad Maheri (Trusted Machine Learning, funded by the Department of Computing Scholarship).
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Mengjia Niu (IoT and HDI, funded by CSC Imperial Scholarship).
I am interested in hearing from potential PhD students in my areas of research interests. If you have interesting ideas and wish to discuss funding opportunities for next year, please send me an email (no attachments please!)
Past Projects/Grants
- Amazon Research Awared 2022-2023, “Auditable Model Privacy using TEEs”
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InnovateUK Cyber Security Academic Startup Accelerator Programme (CyberASAP) grant, supporting our efforts to accelerate IoT Security via IoTrim
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MIT-Imperial Seed Fund , $100K, 2021-2022
- UK DRI Care Research & Technology programme (£20m starting June 2019)
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EPSRC PETRAS ISPEF Fund, Privacy Preserving IoT Security Management (PRISM), £100K, Starting April 2022
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EPSRC Impact Acceleration Award to develop IoTrim, £100K, April 2021-March 2022
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Human-Data Interaction, Legibility, Agency, Negotiability: EPSRC Network Plus grant (EP/R045178/1, £1,040,837 starting September 2018)
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EPSRC DADA: Defence Against Dark Artefacts (EP/R03351X/1, £1,011,787 starting September 2018)
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EPSRC Databox: Privacy-Aware Infrastructure for Managing Personal Data (EP/N028260/1 £1,238,585 starting October 2016)
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EPSRC IoT research-in-the-wild: Connected Seeds and Sensors (EP/L023504/1 £ 321,053 October 2015- March 2017)
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Microsoft Azure for Research Award 2017, 2018 CRM:0518581 (co-PI, $40k)
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EPSRC IT as a Utility Network+ industrial secondment at AT&T Research (PI, £6k)
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Research into value of privacy and monetization of information (co-PI, EPSRC Pump-Priming £50k) Media coverage: ZDNet , StudentTIMES , AndroidLife , Mashable
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UK-US Collaboration Grant (PI, Foreign Office, £2k)
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RVC Public Engagement Grant (co-PI, RVC, £2k)
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CHDI Huntington Disease (postdoc)
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The Twitter Project at MPI-SWS (postdoc)
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Research on Privacy in Internet Advertising (postdoc)
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Measurement at All Scales in Time and Space (PhD student, EPSRC MASTS)
- Self-Organising Collegiate Sensor Networks (MSc student, DTI SECOAS Project)
Past Visitors/Staff/Students
Dr Yushan Huang (On-device Machine Learning systems, funded by CSC Scholarship).
Dr Xavier Cadet (Artificial Intelligence for Health, funded by UKRI CDT in AI for Healthcare)
Dr Sandra Siby, Postdoctoral Research Associate on the EPSRC Open Plus Fellowship (Securing the Next Billion Consumer Devices on the Edge)
Vadim Safronov, Research Assistant on the InnovateUK Cyber Security Academic Startup Accelerator Programme (CyberASAP) grant
Dr Ranya Aloufi (Privacy in Edge Computing, funded by Saudi Arabian Cultural Bureau)
Dr YuanyingZhao (ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow)
Dr Yuchen Zhao (Postdoctoral Research Associate on the UK DRI Care Research & Technology programme
Dr Anna Maria Mandalari (Postdoctoral Research Associate on IoTrim)
Dr Fan Mo (Privacy-preserving trusted Mobile Computing, funded by CSC Scholarship, graduated September 2022).
Dr Yuting Zhan (HDI, funded by CSC Imperial Scholarship, graduated September 2022).
Dr Roman Kolcun (Postdoctoral Research Associate on the DADA Project)
Dr Ali Shahin Shamsabadi (Privacy-preserving Deep Learning, funded by QMUL CIS Scholarship)
Dr Mohammad Malekzadeh (Privacy-preserving time-series data analytics, funded by QMUL Life Science Initiative)
Dr Kleomenis Katevas (Postdoctoral Research Associate on the Databox Project)
Dr Katrin Hänsel (Wearable devices and mHealth, co-advised with Akram Alomainy, funded by QMUL CIS Scholarship, graduated April 2019).
Dr Kleomenis Katevas (PhD: Analysing and influencing crowd behaviors using mobile sensing, co-advised with Laurissa Tokarchuk, funded by DSTL, graduated August 2018).
Dr Yousef Amar (Personal Data Analytics on the Databox Project, funded by QMUL CIS Scholarship).
Dr Panagiotis Papadopoulos (Visiting PhD student, ICS-FORTH)
Dr Sandra Servia (Postdoctoral Research Associate on the Databox project)
Dr Sara Heitlinger (Postdoctoral Research Associate on the Connected Seeds and Sensors project, 2015-2017)
Dr Marjan Falahrastegar (Web Tracking Ecosystem, PhD student at QMUL EECS school, co-advised with Steve Uhlig and Richard Mortier, graduated December 2016)
Ms Nanda Khaorapapong (Research Assistant on the Connected Seeds and Sensors project, 2016)
Dr Kuan Hon (Regulatory aspects of data privacy in Cloud Computing, at QUML CCLS, co-advised with Chris Reed, Graduated 2015, now Of Counsel with law firm Dentons)
Dr Marjan Falahrastegar (2012, RA on Privacy Value, then PhD student at QMUL)
Dr Claudiu Perta (March-June 2014, visiting student from Sapienza Università di Roma, now at Google London)