Research

Research that becomes practice

We study how digital systems fail, how trust can be verified, and how privacy can be protected, then turn the findings into testbeds, prototypes, learning scenarios and shared knowledge.

Research areas

Current areas of work

  • AI and LLM securityModel inversion, membership inference, model extraction, data poisoning, adversarial machine learning and the security of AI-enabled applications.
  • Privacy-enhancing technologiesDifferential privacy, homomorphic encryption, secure collaborative computation and privacy-preserving federated learning.
  • Distributed trust and blockchainVerifiable records, attestations, provenance, blockchain-enabled traceability and decentralized identity with selective disclosure.
  • Cyber-physical systems and IoTSecuring connected and intelligent devices, emerging attacks, layered defenses and verifiable coordination between systems.
  • Cybersecurity educationCyber ranges, experiential learning and evidence-based assessment of practical skill.
  • Knowledge and open innovationOrganizing guidance, standards, findings and lab experience into reusable resources, tools and reference implementations.
Testbeds

The platform is the testbed

The same infrastructure that runs learner labs supports research experiments: isolated networks, reproducible environments and captured evidence.

Research testbedIn build

Federated Learning Testbed

A shared environment for training models across separate data holders without pooling their data.

  • Federated learning
  • Privacy-preserving AI
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