Meet Our Researchers
Cohort 1
Chris Digby
University of Surrey
Theme: Space/Terrestrial Comms and Security
PhD Title: Runtime Monitoring and Self-Healing in NTN RICs
Supervisor: Prof Nishanth Sastry
Maxine Ann Collins
University of Surrey
Theme: Space/Terrestrial Comms and Security
PhD Title: Cryptographic algorithms for Integrated Satellite and Terrestrial Communication Systems
Supervisor: Dr Chaoyun LI
Ousama Albagul
University of Surrey
Theme: Trustworthy AI for Secure Future Open Networks
PhD Title: Explainability and Auditability of Foundation Models in Large-Scale Open Networks
Supervisor: Dr Chuan Foh
Saviz Changizi
University of Surrey
Theme: Trustworthy AI for Secure Future Open Networks
PhD Title: Trustworthy Multi-Agent Cybersecurity for Non-Terrestrial Networks Using Blockchain-Governed LLM Agents
Supervisor: Dr Mohammad Shojafar
Benjamin Gibney
Queen's University Belfast
Theme: Trustworthy AI for Future Secure Open Networks
PhD Title: Truly Trusted Decentralised Federated Learning (TT-DFL)
Supervisor: Professor Jesus Martinez Del Rincon
Yikang Shen
Queen's University Belfast
Theme: Secure and Trustworthy Hardware
PhD Title: Hardware Security in Compute-in-memory for AI applications
Supervisor: Dr Chongyan Gu