School of Computer Science and Statistics
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. Please get in touch 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 … Read more
What does it mean to be a good driver? Racing is different from our daily driving, of course. Regular driving has less to do with reflexes and reaction time, as it heavily depends on reading the situation correctly, understanding other drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians. The actual driving skills and the car performance (e.g., braking reaction … Read more
Deployments of micro-services to Kubernetes clusters can consist of a variety of implementations and their interaction can result in very complex system behaviour. Chaos Engineering is a testing strategy that exposes these deployments to a variety of stress tests in order to reveal potential bottlenecks and system failures. Current approaches to Chaos Engineering provide functionality … Read more
The Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC) protocol has been proposed as the transport protocol for HTTP3. The protocol is based on the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and facilitates a number of features in comparison to the traditional Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) such as streams and connection identifiers. Current, implementations of this protocol have been realised … Read more
Traditionally, Kubernetes has been designed to manage clusters of servers and distribute processing load over them, while providing resilience and scalability. Various approaches have been proposed that stretch the traditional Kubernetes concept to multi-cluster solutions where hardware from multiple providers are combined and deployments can be distributed over available hardware according to a variety of … Read more
Current communication between devices and cloud infrastructure for the Internet of Things is based largely on IPv4 or IPv6. Information-Centric Networking (ICN) proposes to retrieve information from the ‘network’ based on named content instead of focussing on communication with a endpoints identified by addresses. Traditional sensors such as temperature sensors, GPS etc can be seen … Read more
Speeches by charismatic and not so charismatic politicians can sometimes create unexpected and revolutionary changes in nation states. Charismatic politicians can convey sentiments by a subtle choice of words – the so called emotion laden words and ordinary words- can precipitate major socio-political changes. In political debates the politicians use words that may discredit their … Read more
This project will deal with recognition of facial emotion recognition using generative models and comapring the results of GenAI models with key industry standard machine learning models. You will be building a transformer for facial emotion recognition – broadly expressions of happiness, anger, surprise, contempt, and sadness– and for recognising head movements – upward/downward, sideways, … Read more
The advent of IoT devices led to the creation of many different, distributed machine learning techniques to identify patterns and make logical decisions based on the large volumes of data generated. Traditionally, these devices readily shared their raw data with a centralised server. However, this sharing of raw data is not conducive to maintaining the … Read more
The EU AI Act places a requirement on public sector organisations to undertake a fundamental rights impact assessment before deploying AI system is specific applications areas such. However, the state of the art in anticipating impacts from AI is still in its infancy [1] so its use in high stakes regulatory assessment requires accelerating the … Read more