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...
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.
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!
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
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!
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 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.
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
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.