Go 1.18 [1] has recently been released. This new version includes generics and more flexible interfaces. Generics allow programmers to define data structures and functions that work safely for several types, e.g., like List<E> in Java which defines lists that can store any value of type E, where E is any type (String, Boolean, etc). … full description “Mechanisation of subtyping for Go 1.18 (available)”
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National cultures and security behaviours (available)
National culture, namely, the culture in a given country, can be broken down into specific variables. These variables define and influence social norms and behaviours of a society and its individuals. However, they also influence cyber security related perceptions and behaviours. Ans indicative and well-known approach on national cultures is the one by Hofstede, where … full description “National cultures and security behaviours (available)”
OSN Mining Platform – Building a public dataset for fake news research (available)
Project Description According to the Statista, in 2018 the UK had 44 million (66% of the population) active Online Social Networks (OSN) users. Whereas, globally, active OSN user population is 3,397 million. The most popular reason for using the OSN is to stay in touch with friends and family (42% of respondents) and stay up … full description “OSN Mining Platform – Building a public dataset for fake news research (available)”
Predicting and Explaining Drug Toxicity with Graph Neural Networks (available)
This student research project focuses on predicting and explaining drug toxicity using advanced machine learning techniques, specifically Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). Graph Neural Networks are a modern, powerful class of machine learning models widely used across diverse fields, from chemistry to social networks. However, one of the major challenges with traditional GNNs is their “black-box” … full description “Predicting and Explaining Drug Toxicity with Graph Neural Networks (available)”
Quantum computing without quantum computers (available)
Quantum Technologies (QT) may revolutionise data science but are often unreliable. Classical and quantum noise makes most of the existing systems highly unstable. This generalised unreliability has limited their applicability to real-world computational problems. In special cases, quantum systems can be simulated on classical computers. As classical simulations are noise-free, they can be used to … full description “Quantum computing without quantum computers (available)”
Security Evaluation of Broadcasting Network – Protecting the Entertainment Media (available)
Project Description With an increase in the use of internet technologies in various fields, the traditional broadcasting industry also started to adopt systems, software and services based on internet technologies to provide their contents to viewers. Most of the connected media devices deployed still tend to have a low-security threshold inherited from the era of … full description “Security Evaluation of Broadcasting Network – Protecting the Entertainment Media (available)”
Smart cars – Accident scene reconstruction (available)
Smart cars have a number of sensors monitoring the status of the vehicle and at the same time assisting the driver. These sensors traditionally monitor temperature, battery levels, etc. They are relatively simple circuits that may also alert the driver for possible vehicle damage. Some of these are also working towards collision mitigation by monitoring … full description “Smart cars – Accident scene reconstruction (available)”
Smart Home Privacy Framework – Giving Right of Data Control to Individual Users (available)
Project Description The smart home is a collection of intelligent sensors and actuators that collect information of their vicinity with varying granularity. The collected data is of various formats audio, video, action (turn on and off buttons) and text, etc. Furthermore, these sensors will be collecting data from every person active in the vicinity. Separating … full description “Smart Home Privacy Framework – Giving Right of Data Control to Individual Users (available)”
Software framework implementation for air quality monitoring system (available)
The project requires the installation and use of commercially developed Python based software packages on a Raspberry Pi 3 board which access commercial sensors to measure air quality. The software has calibration, data acquisition and data storage functions. The hardware platform is based around 4 air contaminants Alphasense sensors mounted on an Alphasense AFE (analogue … full description “Software framework implementation for air quality monitoring system (available)”
Speak to Pay – Voice and Chip Payment Framework (available)
Project Description Payment architectures are in constant evolution, from Chip&Pin to contactless to facial-recognition based transactions. Also, with the advent of smart assistants like Siri, Amazon Alexa, and Google Assistant takes a cue from their respective users through voice commands. This project will explore the potential of using voice recognition/control as an authorisation of an … full description “Speak to Pay – Voice and Chip Payment Framework (available)”
Transparent Governance – Technology to hold Public/Private Sector to Account (available)
Project Description The costs to society of government corruption and low accountability are staggering. Countries on every continent struggle with entrenched corruption and opaque government processes, from graft and diversion of public funds to non-competitive procurement bidding processes. For several countries, public corruption is their single-largest challenge, costing the loss of funds, loss of opportunity, … full description “Transparent Governance – Technology to hold Public/Private Sector to Account (available)”
Transparent Supply Chain – Know the provenance of products in superstores (available)
Project Description Blockchain platform provides an immutable temporal record which can be utilised to collect transactional data throughout the supply chain. This can potentially offer an immutable provenance of individual goods/products with full traceability from source to store. A transparent supply chain creates an opportunity to optimise supply-and-demand management, build resilience and ultimately enable more … full description “Transparent Supply Chain – Know the provenance of products in superstores (available)”
Video Action Classification (available)
Automatic interpretation of human actions from realistic videos attracts increasing research attention owing to its growing demand in real-world deployments such as biometrics, intelligent robotics, and surveillance. In this project, we will explore a variety of deep neural networks for video action classification, owing to their great efficiency in spatial-temporal feature learning.
Visualising global accessibility of open data resources via traceroute (available)
Research depends on data that is openly available. Recently, it has become clear that access to repositories that store these data sets is variable across the country that accesses the data. This can be due to poor connectivity for Lower income countries to countries that are actively blocked from accessing specific sites. A set of … full description “Visualising global accessibility of open data resources via traceroute (available)”