Research themes

Technical and socio-technical

  • Security of intelligent transport systems
  • Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and ‘Internet of Things’ security
  • Detecting anomalies from big data
  • Identifying vulnerabilities of SCADA from data
  • Identifying new vulnerabilities by analysing smart grid measurement data
  • Wireless, multimedia and sensor network security
  • Protocol and system security
  • The design of efficient graph algorithms and graph-theoretic optimisation.
  • Data stream analysis and sampling
  • Phishing
  • Malware
  • Cyber-enabled war, ADF strategies and capability
  • International threat environment, diplomatic responses and national cybersecurity policy
  • Ethics in cyberspace
  • Data privacy and data forensics analysis
  • Cyber intrusions, detection and forensics
  • Human aspects of cybersecurity and privacy
  • Cyber education and skills development

Law tech

  • Big data
  • Artificial intelligence
  • FinTech
  • National security
  • Disruptive technologies
  • Compliance by design
  • Compliance through design
  • Information security
  • Information governance
  • Cyber-resilience
  • Cyber warfare
  • Ethics
  • Disruptive technology
  • Privacy
  • Public policy
  • Regulation of the web of (linked) data
  • New Law and innovative business models
  • Access to justice
  • Innovation and regulation, and the impact on legal rights
  • Legal institutions and models
  • Hate speech
  • Social media