UCD ASEADOS Lab – Artificial Intelligence Solution for Cyber Security, Digital Forensics and Smart Systems

ASEADOS members have contributed to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) report

Posted on February 16, 2025 by

Delighted UCD ASEADOS members Dr. Nicholls, Dr. Kuppa and Assoc. Prof. Le-Khac to have contributed to the UNODC report, in highlighting the GenAI threats. More details in the following link: https://www.unodc.org/roseap/uploads/documents/Publications/2024/TOC_Convergence_Report_2024.pdf

Congratulations to Ms. Elizabeth Stratton and Dr. Jack Nicholls!

Posted on February 16, 2025 by

On December 2nd, 2024, Ms. Stratton received her MSc. degree and Dr. Nicholls received his PhD. degree. Ms. Stratton also got the Garda Commissioner Award for the best MSc. FCCI student. Her research project was supervised by Dr. Nicholls and Assoc. Prof. Le-Khac. Well-done, all!

Dr. Jack Nicholls passed his Ph.D. viva voce with flying colours last Friday!

Posted on October 7, 2024 by

Please join me in congratulating Dr. Jack Nicholls who passed his Ph.D. viva voce with flying colours last Friday. His thesis is entitled "Deep Graph Networks for Analysing Illicit Activity in Cryptocurrency to Combat Financial Cybercrime" was accepted with no correction. During his PhD study, Dr. Jack Nicholls, a member of UCD ML-Labs Cohort 2 and UCD ASEADOS research group, has had great...

Jack has a paper entitled “Large Language Model XAI Approach for Illicit Activity Investigation in Bitcoin”, accepted to publish in Springer Neural Computing and Applications (IF: 4.7), October 2024

Posted on October 4, 2024 by

Well-done Jack!

ASEADOS members has a very successful CITA 2024 conference, July, Danang, Vietnam.

Posted on September 23, 2024 by

Jack presented a well-received Guest Speaker talk entitled "Ransomware and Fraud in the era of GenAI" at the Plenary Session of the conference. ASEADOS group co-organised a Special Session on "Cyber Security, Digital Forensics and Cryptography", which won the Best Special Session Award.

ASEADOS members attended the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence in Yokohama, Japan, July 2024

Posted on September 16, 2024 by

Last summer, ASEADOS members attended and presented two research papers in the 2024 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (CORE Rank A) in Yokohama, Japan: DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN60899.2024.10650401 and DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN60899.2024.10650322. I also met my colleague, Assoc. Prof. Hanh-Nhi Tran from Saint-Cyr Military Academy, France

Congratulations to Ms. Hong Zhou on getting the prestigious UCD CSC scholarship!

Posted on August 22, 2024 by

The UCD-CSC scheme is jointly funded by University College Dublin and the China Scholarship Council, affiliated with the Ministry of Education of China. Ms. Hong Zhou is pursuing her PhD. study under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Le-Khac.

Duc-Anh has a paper entitled “Virtual Fusion with Contrastive Learning for Single Sensor-based Activity Recognition”, published in IEEE Sensors Journal (IF: 4.3), June 2024

Posted on June 21, 2024 by

Well-done Duc-Anh! Paper’s DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2024.3412397

Dr. Aditya and Jack have a paper entitled “’Manipulating Prompts and Retrieval-Augmented Generation for LLM Service Providers”, accepted in 21st International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2024), Dijon, France, July 2024

Posted on June 19, 2024 by

Congratulations to Aditya and Jack!

Tharindu has a paper entitled “Cross-validation for Detecting Label Poisoning Attacks: A Study on Random Forest Algorithm”, accepted in 39th International Conference on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection (IFIP SEC 2024), June 2024

Posted on June 19, 2024 by

Congratulations to Tharindu and the team!