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Available positions

PhDs and Postdocs: My research group is always looking for excellent PhD students and post-docs focusing on network security, distributed ledger technology, autonomous systems and security with a focus on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and digital twins. Make a PhD enquiry on the themes mentioned above or even with your ideas and funding relevant to secure computing or network security.


Research Fellows, Associates and Assistants

⁃Dr Thi Minh Hien Nguyen
⁃Dr Ayesha Abdul Majeed
⁃Dr A. Abdullah
⁃Dr Vimal Kumar Dwivedi
⁃Mr Michael Davis
⁃Ms Fannya Ratana Sandjaja

PhD students

⁃Mark Megarry (Co-Supervisor: Prof Trung Q. Duong)
⁃Gyan Wickremasinghe (Co-Supervisor: Prof Karen Rafferty)
⁃Moustafa Ahmed Faheem (Co-Supervisors: Prof Adrian Murphy, Dr Carlos Reano)
⁃Jason Kennedy (Co-Supervisors: Prof Karen Rafferty, Dr Carlos Reano)
⁃Tinh Thanh Bui (Primary Supervisor: Prof Trung Q. Duong)
⁃Caragh Duffy (Primary Supervisor: Dr Pratyush N. Upreti)
⁃Eva Mc Evoy (Primary Supervisor: Dr Ihsen Alouani)
⁃Callum Smith (Primary Supervisor: Prof Karen Rafferty)


MEng Students (R&D projects)

⁃Nathan Donaghy (2022/23, An Efficient and Secure Protocol for Drone Tracking System)
⁃Viraj Gaur (2021/22, Abusive adversarial agents for testing cyber-physical systems)
⁃Michael Lavery (2021/22, Digital twin for event validation in the industrial cyber-physical systems)
⁃TiarnĂ¡n McCarron (2021/22, Concurrency resolution in blockchain networks)


Undergradute students (Dissertation)

⁃Callum Neill (2023/24, Logical puzzle generating web application for the development of critical thinking)
⁃Matthew Hanna (2023/24, Safety Assessment of the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) using a digital twin)
⁃Matthew Newell (2023/24, Generative AI and 3D Modelling)
⁃Nathan Neville (2023/24, Threat intelligence of autonomous ground robots)
⁃Fannya Ratana Sandjaja (2023/24, Software as a Service for Secure Drone Communication and Swarming)
⁃Dylan Smith (2023/24, Safety Assessment of Autonomous Aerial Vehicles Using Digital Twins)
⁃Xinrui Wang (2023/24, Inventory Management Software as a Service using Lightweight Blockchain)
⁃Aish Singh (2022/23, Hey Q!: Speech content independent Speaker Verification System)
⁃Blazej Nowakowski (2022/23, Safety Assurance Mapping of Autonomous Vehicles Through a Digital Twin)
⁃Ronan Cartin (2022/23, Intelligent Mapping of Similar Exemplars Across Different Modules)
⁃Ronan Bloomer (2021/22, Non-repetitive multi-factor authentication for home automation systems)
⁃Gyan Wickremasinghe (2021/22, B-BOM - Blockchain-based bill of material for aircraft industry)
⁃Evan Wellard-McMillan (2021/22, Process management and verification of industrial control systems with blockchain)
⁃Ronan Mac Devit (2021/22, A flexible and robust monitoring system for distributed IoT networks)
⁃Dawson Mckee (2021/22, Automated event verification of autonomous vehicles)
⁃Jack Foy (2021/22, Digital twin for identifying smart adversaries in the Industrial Internet of Things)
⁃Aileen Tracey (2020/21, Legal document management via a private blockchain)
⁃Conor Browne (2020/21, Efficient multi-factor authentication system for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT))
⁃Hannah Cunningham (2020/21, Geometry security to enhance authentication mechanisms for smartphones)
⁃Jamie Mcilwrath (2020/21, Lightweight mechanism for data privacy via on-device federated learning for IoT)
⁃Matthew Wallace (2020/21, Behaviour-rules verification system for Medical Internet of Things (MIoT))

Interns

⁃Senan Kellegher (QUB, Summer Internship, 2024)
⁃James McEwan (QUB, Summer Internship, 2023)
⁃Aish Singh (CSIT Theme Funded Summer Internship, 2023)
⁃Nathan Donaghy (QUB, Summer Internship, 2022)
⁃Ved Wanjare (IAESTE, Summer Internship, 2021)