Network and Information Security Technology (NIST) Research Group

Introduction

• Group leader: Gyu Myoung Lee

• Group members: Bob Askwith, Thomas Berry, Aine Mac Dermott, Qi Shi, Nathan Shone, Sud Sudiman, Andy Symons, Mark Taylor, Bo Zhou, Sorren Hanvey, Syed Naqvi, Hoshang Kolivand, Max Hashem Eiza

Research interests

• Cloud security

• Secure service composition

• Future network security

• Applied cryptography

• Constrained security for the Internet of Things

• Wireless/mobile communication security

• Digital forensics

• Cyber Security Teaching and Learning

Emerging resaerch challegnes

• Security, privacy and trust in data and aI as well as for 5G and beyond

• Distributed Ledger Technology / Blockchain

Groups' Research Theme

• Towards digital economy with decentralization

Next steps

Short term

• Enhancing our resarch output quality and productivity

• Upskilling researchers through mentoring

• Seeking for external resaerch grants

Long term

• International reputation on a specific resaerch field 

Alumni

PhD students

• Ali Alfoudi - University of Al-Qadisiyah, Iraq 

  • Autonomic mobility control for capillary networks to support smart cities

• Nguyen Truong - Univeristy of Glasgow, UK

  • Trust engine in Social IoT service platform

• Mohammed Dighriri - University of Hafr Al Batin, Saudi Arabia

  • 5G slicing for mission critical IoT traffic

• Upul Jayasinghe - University of Peradeiya,  Sri Lanka

  • Autonomic trust management in Social IoT

• Jalal Maqbool 

  • Context aware recommendation system for mobile learning