School of Computer Science and Statistics
Modular arithmetic is commonly used in cryptographic schemes such as elliptic curve cryptography. A modular number system can represent whole numbers in the range 0 up to some value p-1, where p is the modulus. Modular number systems wrap around. For example, if the modulus is 7, then (4 + 6) mod 7 = 10 … Read more
Speech perception is not static. Within seconds of hearing a new voice, the brain begins to adapt. Recent analysis across multiple datasets (Valdes et al., 2025) shows that cortical tracking of the sound acoustics drops markedly within the first 20 seconds of exposure of a familiar voice. However, when listeners encounter a genuinely novel speaker, … Read more
I am happy to supervise a project in all the areas of computer networking that I am interested in — wireless networking, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and in their application to a wide range of real world settings (healthcare, IoT, structural health monitoring). I am particularly interested in exploring some aspects of quantum computing; for … Read more
Great literature is timeless and it takes us into a virtual space complete with route maps, footpaths, roads, rivers, mountains, and, of course people, places, animals, objects and events. So, the characters in the Irish literary classic, Ulysses, meet near Trinity College, take a tram, pop into a house/cafe, go to a river crossing, and … Read more
Comprehension is rarely passive. In real life, we listen because we intend to respond, to answer a question, continue a conversation, or signal understanding. Yet the overwhelming majority of studies ask participants to do precisely nothing: sit still, listen to a story, answer a few questions at the end. Whether this unnatural setup distorts the … Read more
Multimodal Learning for DeepFake Detection In recent years, the rise of deepfakes—videos that are digitally altered using artificial intelligence (AI) to convincingly depict false events or individuals has sparked significant concerns about the reliability of visual content captured by surveillance systems. This project is driven by the recognition that traditional methods of detecting video manipulation … Read more
Automated surveillance is widely opted for applications such as traffic monitoring, vehicle identification, etc . But, various weather degradation factors such as rain and snow streaks, along with atmospheric veil severely affect the perceptual quality of an image, eventually affecting the performance of these applications. There exist weather specific (rain, haze, snow, etc .) methods … Read more
By listening to speech and measuring brain activity, we can investigate how different aspects of spoken language are encoded and processed by the brain. However, much less is known about whether eye movements and gaze behaviour also reflect how we listen to and understand speech in complex noisy environments. Recent research suggests that gaze may … Read more
Background I’m happy to consider compelling project proposals that involve hardware, networking, security or wireless technologies. Ideally they will be well aligned with my research interests. In recent years students have worked on projects in security and crypto, VPNs, homomorphic encryption, Vehicular Networking, Distributed online control, Underwater communications, music visualisation and some fundamental Quantum Communication … Read more
Background I’m happy to consider compelling project proposals that involve hardware, networking, security or wireless technologies. Ideally they will be well aligned with my research interests. In recent years students have worked on projects in security and crypto, VPNs, homomorphic encryption, Vehicular Networking, Distributed online control, Underwater communications, music visualisation and some fundamental Quantum Communication … Read more