For project details, please visit the Systems and Algorithms Laboratory (SysAL) pages.
Current Projects and Grants
- EPSRC Impact Acceleration Award, £100K, Starting April 2021
- Human-Data Interaction, Legibility, Agency, Negotiability: EPSRC Network Plus grant (EP/R045178/1, £1,040,837 starting September 2018)
- EPSRC DADA: Defence Against Dark Artefacts (EP/R03351X/1, £1,011,787 starting September 2018)
- UK DRI Care Research & Technology programme (£20m starting June 2019)
Current Research Staff
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Dr Yuchen Zhao (Postdoctoral Research Associate on the UK DRI Care Research & Technology programme
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Dr Anna Maria Mandalari (Postdoctoral Research Associate on the Databox Project)
Current Research Students
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Xavier Cadet (Artificial Intelligence for Health, funded by UKRI CDT in AI for Healthcare).
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Ranya Aloufi (Privacy in IoT, funded by Saudi Arabian Cultural Bureau).
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Fan Mo (Privacy-preserving trusted Mobile Computing, funded by CSC Scholarship).
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Yuting Zhan (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
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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)
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Self-Organising Collegiate Sensor Networks (MSc student, DTI SECOAS Project)
Past Visitors/Staff/Students
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 a legal consultant with Microsoft Research)
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)