TEEP Program at CISLab - Research topics

CIS Lab is a research-oriented lab at National Chung Cheng University established by Prof. Van-Linh Nguyen. Students are diverse and come from many countries, e.g., Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Ethiopia, Iran, and India. Interns also include students from Indonesia, Czech, Germany, and Japan. Our research interests include Information Security/Advanced authentication, cybersecurity in wireless communications, space/drone security, quantum security, and vehicular networks. If you have background on these fields, you are welcome to apply.

Research group: https://sites.google.com/view/nvlinh/research-group

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Research topics

Topic 1: Advanced network technologies, quantum machine learning, and semantic communications

This research explores the synergy of advanced network technologies, quantum machine learning (QML), and semantic communications to build next-generation intelligent and secure systems. We study 6G and Open RAN architectures, edge–cloud collaboration, and AI-driven resource management to enable ultra-reliable and low-latency connectivity for applications such as autonomous vehicles, UAV-assisted monitoring, and smart microgrids. Leveraging QML, we develop hybrid quantum–classical algorithms that accelerate learning, enhance cybersecurity, and optimize network performance. Meanwhile, semantic communications enable machines to exchange meaning rather than raw data, crucial for digital twins, collaborative robotics, and IoT ecosystems. Students will learn to design intelligent network architectures, implement QML models using platforms like Qiskit and PyTorch, and develop semantic encoders for efficient AI communications. This training equips them with the skills to innovate across quantum-intelligent networking, AI-native communications, and cyber-physical infrastructure security in smart cities and sustainable systems. In short, this project encourages the talents who are interested in the following topics:

(1) 6G networks: ISAC, wireless sensing, non-camera monitoring.

(2) Quantum machine learning: Quantum AI, quantum networks, quantum computing.

(3) Wireless and Semantic Communications: Digital twins, VR/XR

Topic 2: Trustable Artificial Intelligence for Critical Applications and 6G Security in the Quantum Era

Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), generative AI, and multimodal models, together with 6G networking and quantum computing, accelerate intelligent and autonomous systems. However, these advances introduce security and safety risks, including adversarial attacks, prompt injections, jailbreaks, data leakage, model manipulation, and AI-enabled cyberattacks. In critical applications such as SCADA, intelligent transportation systems, and communication networks, compromised AI or inadequate guardrails may lead to serious cyber-physical consequences and privacy violations. This project focuses on securing emerging AI-enabled systems through AI security, LLM security and guardrails, trustworthy AI, and intelligent cyber defense.

Key research topics include:

(1) AI for Cybersecurity;

(2) Cybersecurity for AI and LLMs;

(3) LLM and Guardrails;

(4) 6G and UAV Security;

(5) Space and Quantum Security;

and (6) Trustworthy AI for Critical Applications

Topic 3: Wireless and UAV Security: Technologies and Applications

AThis project investigates advanced cybersecurity technologies for future 6G wireless networks, ISAC, Sensing, and UAV-enabled applications. It focuses on secure and resilient communications, AI-driven threat detection and defense, anti-jamming techniques, and UAV network security. The project also explores practical UAV applications, including smart cities, emergency communications, sensing, and intelligent wireless services

If you have background on computer networks, cybersecurity, wireless communications, space/drone security, quantum security, and vehicular networks, you are welcome to join our lab.