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"Good research comes from tackling real problems."
"Good research is done with a shovel not with tweezers."
--- Roger Needham

Research team

Who are we

Current members

Prof Feng Hao (PI)
Dr Sumanta Sankar (SRF)
Dr Mahshid Delavar (RF)
Luke Harrison (PhD student)
Mohammad Sadegh Nourbakhsh (PhD student)
Huaohuan Li (PhD student)
Zulkarnaim Masyhur (PhD student)

PhD graduates

Mahshid Mehr Nezhad (graduated in 2024 from the University of Warwick). Thesis: "On the Security of Contactless Payment Systems" [PDF]
Shen Wang (graduated in 2023 from the University of Warwick). Thesis: "New authentication applications in the protection of caller ID and banknote" [PDF]
Maryam Mehrnezhad (graduated in 2016 from Newcastle University). Thesis: "On the Security of Mobile Sensors" [PDF] [viva presentation]
Patrick McCorry (graduated in 2017 from Newcastle University). Thesis: "Applications of the Blockchain using Cryptography" [PDF]
Ehsan Toreini (graduated in 2018 from Newcastle University). Thesis: "New Advances in Tamper Evident Technologies" [PDF]

Former post-docs

Dr Samiran Bag (SRF, 2016 - 2022)
Dr Indranil Ghosh Ray (RF, 2019 - 2022)
Mark Jackson (software developer, 2018)
Ehsan Toreini (RA, 2018)
Muhammad Ajmal Azad (RA, 2016 - 2019 )
Dr Dylan Clarke (RA, 2011 - 2017)
Dr Siamak Shahandashti (RA/SRA, 2013 - 2017)
Dr Taha Ali (RA, 2014 - 2016)
Dr Peter Hyun-Jeen Lee (RA, 2013 - 2015)

Visitors in the past

Prof Bimal Kumar Roy from Indian Statistical Institute (Nov, 2018, Nov, 2019)
Somnath Panja from Indian Statistical Institute (May 2019 - July 2019)
Charles Varlei Neu from PUCRS, Brazil (Jul 2018 - Oct 2018)
Dr Hang Luo from Peking University, China (Jul-Sep 2017, Dec 2017-Feb, 2017)
Dr Chengqing Li from Hunan University, China (Dec 2016-Jun 2017)
Prof Xun Yi from RMIT, Australia (Feb 2014)
Carlos Vegas from Spain (Sep-Oct 2013)

Acknowledgement

Our research is kindly supported by several funding sponsors.