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

Hong-Hanh and Quang-Tien have won two awards in European Statistics Awards with a total of €6,000

Posted on August 28, 2025 by

🏆 FVNWL Team Takes Two Prizes at the European Statistics Awards! 🏆 Hong-Hanh, Quang-Tien, and the team FVNWL, have achieved outstanding results in the European Statistics Awards for the Web Intelligence Classification Challenge! They proudly secured: 2nd Place in the Accuracy Award (€5,000) 3rd Place in the Innovativity Award (€1,000) The Challenge: Making Sense of Job Ads The core...

Dat-Thinh has a paper entitled “Stabilizing Data-Free Model Extraction” accepted for presentation at the 28th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2025), Bologna, Italy, Oct. 2025

Posted on August 6, 2025 by

Well-done Dat-Thinh! The European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) is the leading conference in the field of Artificial Intelligence in Europe.

Congratulations to Duc-Anh, who ranked 4th in the Una Europa Epilepsy Data Challenge!

Posted on June 27, 2025 by

Well done Duc-Anh! This Una Europa Epilepsy Data Challenge is co-funded by the EU Commission with 408 submission. More details from https://www.una-europa.eu/calendar/una-europa-epilepsy-data-challenge

Hong-Hanh has a paper entitled “Think Twice before Adaptation: Improving Adaptability of DeepFake Detection via Online Test-Time Adaptation” accepted for presentation at the 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2025), Montreal, Canada, Aug. 2025

Posted on June 7, 2025 by

Many congratulations to Hong-Hanh! IJCAI is an A* conference in AI and since its founding in 1969, IJCAI has been the premier conference for the global AI community.

ASEADOS members are going to delivery two new modules: COMP41870 AI Security and COMP41880 AI Investigations for UCD MSc. Forensic Computing and Cybercrime Investigations programme

Posted on May 10, 2025 by

Module COMP41870 – AI Security (from 2025/2026) Module Lecturer: Dr. Aditya Kuppa What Will I learn? This “AI Security” module equips students with offensive and defensive techniques to secure AI architectures, generative models, and AI-driven applications. Spanning background fundamentals, practical labs, and policy frameworks, the course ensures graduates can identify and mitigate...

Congratulations to Quang-Tien and Hong-Hanh, who just passed the STA assessment!

Posted on April 20, 2025 by

Well-done, guys! and welcome to the PhD Stage 2! You're now official PhD candidates. We also take this opportunity to thank the STA assessment panel who gave very positive feedback and constructive comments to Quang-Tien and Hong-Hanh.

Congratulations to Dr. ElSayed, who just got the Best Paper Award from the Elsevier Journal of Networks and Computer Applications!

Posted on February 28, 2025 by

Dr. Mahmoud ElSayed (supervised by Dr. Anca Jurcut and Assoc. Prof. Le-Khac), the Best Journal Paper Award from the Elsevier Journal of Networks and Computer Applications (SCI Q1, IF=7.7) last December (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-network-and-computer-applications/about/awards/2023-jnca-best-research-paper-award). Well-done Mahmoud and Anca!

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...