AVCN RESEARCH CENTRE

• EU Erasmus+, eACCESS – EU-Asia Collaboration for aCcessible Education in Smart Power Systems (eACCESS), Total fund Euro 1 million (Euro 156k for UWS activities), 2020-2024. https://eaccess-edu.eu/

• EU Erasmus+, SUNSpACe – SUstainable developmeNt Smart Agriculture Capacity, Total fund Euro 1 million (Euro 164k for UWS activities), 2019-2022. http://sunspace.farm/

• EU Erasmus+ “ATHIKA- Advanced Technologies in Health Innovation”, 200k for UWS activities, 2019-2022. https://athika.eu/

• EU H2020, “SliceNet– End-to-End Cognitive Network Slicing and Slice Management Framework in Virtualised Multi-Domain, Multi-Tenant 5G Networks”, funded under H2020-ICT-2016-2 call, Euro 700k for UWS activities, 2017-2020. https://slicenet.eu/

• InnovateUK, Newton Fund, Personalised Service Assistant for Journey Planner, £60k for UWS activities, 2018-2020.

• EU Erasmus Mundus Project “SmartLink”, Project coordinator for the consortium of 25 EU and South Asian university partners, Euro 695k for UWS activities, 2014-2019. https://smartlink-edu.eu/

• EU Erasmus Mundus Project “gLINK”, Partner in the consortium of 18 partners, Euro 246k for UWS activities, (2014-2019), http://www.glink-edu.eu/

• EU H2020, “SELFNET – Framework for Self-organized Network Management in Virtualized and Software Defined Networks”, funded under H2020-ICT-2014-2 call, Euro 700k for UWS activities, 2015-2018. https://selfnet-5g.eu/

• GCRF (Global Challenges Research Fund) “NetDiploma project”, Networking project with Northumbria University funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC), 2018-2020. 

• EU Erasmusplus, UK- Algeria Advanced Computing Framework, Euro 163k, 2017-2018.

• Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) project, “Developing intelligent applications for confectionary business”, with Golden Casket Group Ltd and InnovateUK, £173k, 2019-2021. https://goldencasket.co.uk/

• Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) project, “Developing intelligent system for luxury chauffeur services”, with Little’s Ltd and InnovateUK, £183k, 2019-2021. https://littles.co.uk/

• KTP project, “Eye Tracking: Predicting a viewer’s likely response to digital advert” with Lumen, £240k, 2017-2019

• KTP project, To embed machine learning expertise and develop the next generation of digital content management platform, funded by Innovate UK with MODO Systems Ltd., £165k, 2018-2021

• KTP Project, Maintenance monitoring capabilities. Funded by the Innovate UK and Hart Lifts Ltd £185,000, 2019-2022.

• KTP Project, To embed IoT and machine learning capabilities for developing air quality monitoring framework for large scale deployment. Funded by the Innovate UK and BRS Technology £185,000, 2019-2021.

• Fundacion Seneca, “Cognitive Management of Identities for Muti-tenant 5G Networks”, funded under National Programme for Research Talent and their employability call, Euro 68k for Fellowship Holder, 2019-2021

• Innovation Centre for Sensor and Imaging Systems (CENSIS), UK, and Thales UK, "Smart Unmanned Aerial System for Real-Time Object Detection", in collaboration with Police Scotland, UK, funded under CENSIS open call, £100k for UWS activities, 2018-2019.

• Cancer research UK, “Audio technology to detect lung cancer earlier” £40k, 2017-19

• Scottish Funding Council, “Utilizing Social Media Trends to Proactively Prevent Cyberattack”, funded under PhD Studentship, £55,000, 2016-2019

• Zayed University, “Privacy-aware Data Curation for IoT Devices”, funded under RIF, £14k for UWS activities, 2016-2019

• AI enabled coverage hole detection for wireless networks, funded under VP Strategic fund matched with BT, £96k, 2018-2021

• CSI “Emotional Gym: Interactive Bike, Lorretto housing”, Wheatley Group, £50k, 2017-2019

• Digital Health Institute “Smartcough”, funded with 90k£ (2015-2018). With University of Edinburgh, Cirrus Logic (former Wolfson Microelectronics), and CHSS.

• Energy technology Partnership (ETP), “Validation of advanced control and protection solutions for active integration of renewables through high fidelity hardware-in-the-loop simulation, with Strathclyde University, 2015-2018

Name:  Professor Keshav Dahal
Position: Leader of the AVCN Research Centre and Professor in Intelligent Systems
Email: Keshav.dahal@uws.ac.uk
Tel: +44 141 848 3305
PURE profile link: https://research-portal.uws.ac.uk/en/persons/keshav-dahal

Name: Professor Qi Wang
Position: Professor in Computer Networking
Email: Qi.Wang@uws.ac.uk
Tel: +44 141 848 3945
PURE profile link: https://research-portal.uws.ac.uk/en/persons/qi-wang

Name: Professor Jose M. Alcaraz-Calero
Position: Professor in Networks
Email: Jose.Alcaraz-Calero@uws.ac.uk
Tel: +44 141 848 3419
PURE profile link: https://research-portal.uws.ac.uk/en/persons/jose-alcaraz-calero

Name: Professor Naeem Ramzan
Position: Professor in Visual Communications
Email: Naeem.Ramzan@uws.ac.uk
Tel:
PURE profile link: https://research-portal.uws.ac.uk/en/persons/naeem-ramzan

Name: Professor Zeeshan Pervez
Position: Professor in Web Technology
Email: Zeeshan.Pervez@uws.ac.uk
Tel: +44 141 848 3183
PURE profile link: https://research-portal.uws.ac.uk/en/persons/zeeshan-pervez

Name: Dr. Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir
Position: Reader in Networks
Email: Muhammad.Shakir@uws.ac.uk
Tel: +44 141 848 3420
PURE profile link: https://research-portal.uws.ac.uk/en/persons/muhammad-zeeshan-shakir-shakir

Name: Dr. Hector Marco
Position: Lecturer in Computer Security
Email: Hector.Marco@uws.ac.uk
Tel: +44 141 849 4418
PURE profile link: https://research-portal.uws.ac.uk/en/persons/hector-marco-gisbert

Name: Dr. Santiago Matalonga
Position: Lecturer in Software Engineering
Email: Santiago.Matalonga@uws.ac.uk
Tel: +44 141 849 4341
PURE profile link: https://research-portal.uws.ac.uk/en/persons/santiago-matalonga-motta

• Professor Henry Wang

• Professor Abbes Amira

• Professor Christopher Grecos

• Dr Pablo Casaseca

• Dr Chunbo Luo