Public Funding for Royal Holloway and Bedford New College

This project aims to discover new ways to use waste material from agave cultivation to manufacture sustainable, low-cost renewable fuels.

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BLEmap helps companies develop secure personal and wearable IoT devices that communicate using Bluetooth Low Energy.

The technology infrastructure of an organisation is a complex set of multitudes of services interconnected with each other. This complexity is?then?translated?into security and privacy-preserving policies/services?for the organisation. Most of these services are configured and operate in silos, with little interconnectivity. This creates an enormous challenge for managing security and privacy practices -- from organisational policies and services to monitored activities. The challenges are to: ?a.integrate all security- and privacy-related services into a single portal,? b.provide a real-time security and privacy visualisation and? c.provide a transparent auditing and compliance assessment service that analyses the activities in an organisation?as a whole and?not as a subset of individual services such as firewalls or IDS logs/events. Transparent Compliance will monitor security and privacy services in an organisation, integrating their monitoring logs and building a causality chain. The chain represents the sequences of inter-related events that might be temporally disjointed and allowed at the individual level but collectively might violate the security and privacy policies. The causality chain is analysed to verify an organisation's compliance with the required security and privacy preservation policies, thus providing a holistic, corporate-wide, real-time auditing and compliance assessment service.

The AI market size is expected to be USD 190.61 billion by 2025, with a CAGR of 36.62% between 2018 and 2025. Furthermore, AI systems will be used in a wide range of applications, from cybersecurity threat prevention to autonomous vehicles and algorithmic trading strategies. As the reliance on AI systems in different existing and emerging technologies increases, so do the potential threats to such systems. Therefore, it is vital to make sure that AI systems: a) are well designed and resilient against cyberattacks through rigorous pentesting; and b) have digital forensics capabilities that can investigate cyberattacks and misbehaviour within the system. The provision of the listed capabilities through the AISecure suite will undoubtedly mitigate an AI algorithm's social, ethical, legal and technological risks. The first innovation is the ability to deal with the combination of traditional cyber-threats and specific AI attacks, like the poisoning of the learning mechanisms in a single AISecure suite, a crucial aspect that is missing in most current commercial pentesting solutions/services. The second innovation is to provide forensic investigation capabilities related to AI systems that help identify the culprits and influence the security design of future AI systems.

The focus of this study is to demonstrate the feasibility of innovative diagnostic assays and molecular marker assays for the improvement of salad onion and leek (Allium spp.) seed quality. The project partners are Tozer Seeds Ltd (Cobham, UK), who sell Allium seeds in the UK and export worldwide, and the Seed Science Lab at Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL, Perez/Steinbrecher/Leubner). This multi-disciplinary team will provide a solution to the short shelf-life of seed, a particular issue for onion seeds which are often damaged during storage/transport and thus subject to accelerated ageing. Sowing of damaged seed results in reduced germination and poor seedling establishment, which causes a reduction of healthy produce. Our collaboration aims to employ novel and innovative technologies to deliver superb seed quality.

The quantum theory elaborated in the 20th century revolutionised the way we describe the world at the atomic scale. It told us that phenomena and measurements made on single particles can be completely unpredictable. Recently it has been realised that these effects could be very useful for generating the random numbers and secret keys that are needed in the cryptographic applications that protect IT systems and networks. This project is developing chip-based technologies for generating random numbers and keys and integrating them into demonstrator systems for secure communications. As these devices can be manufactured cheaply in large numbers, it will allow us to take these innovative new quantum technologies out of the lab and into everyday life.

People with dementia and their carers in Surrey and North East Hampshire will benefit from an innovative new project that will use technology to revolutionize healthcare. A variety of apps, monitors, sensors and other devices will be combined in an ‘Internet of Things’ that will monitor people’s health in their own homes. These devices will produce information to help people with dementia and their carers take more control over their own health and wellbeing. The insights and alerts provided by the combination of devices will enable healthcare staff to deliver more responsive and effective services. The ‘Test Bed’ project is funded by Innovate UK and NHS England to try out combinations of technologies that have the potential to improve care quality and provide better value for money. The project is led by Surrey & Borders NHS Foundation Trust working with the University of Surrey, Royal Holloway, University of London, Kent, Surrey and Sussex Academic Health Science Network, the Alzheimer’s Society, local Clinical Commissioning Groups, charities and other partners.

This project will allow remote workers to securely access information and control equipment,which is owned and operated by multiple organisations, supporting secure and flexible collaboration between people distributed across multiple organisations in the supply chain, using infrastructure from multiple suppliers. Organisations need to ensure users and devices only access information and equipment in accordance with defined policies, need to ensure policies can be defined by business people that understand the commercial implications of the policies, and need to ensure timely and effective response to perceived risks and threats, with particular attention to the legal, social and ethical contracts between people and organisations. Users need to support multiple organisations and groups, using the same devices for all, but ensuring the information and controls remain separate, recognising their role in the security of those organisations. The solution combines user experience considerations with technical security controls and third-party integrations, creating a coherent, secure, flexible and easy to use solution for the whole supply chain.

Seed priming is conducted by seed technology companies improve the quality of vegetable seeds including lettuce. Primed lettuce seeds provide alleviated dormancy, fast and uniform germination, followed by sturdy and uniform seedlings to ensure improved primary leafy salad crop production even in stressful environments. In this multi-disciplinary collaboration project between Germains Seed Technology (Norfolk, www.germains.com) and the seed science lab at Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL, Prof G Leubner and Dr T Steinbrecher, www.seedbiology.eu) we will use novel biomaterial engineering technologies, growth imaging and molecular/hormone analytics to provide innovative diagnostic tools which will enable to further improve the lettuce seed priming process. The feasibility and commercial potential of these novel agricultural technologies will be explored with the vision to further improve priming, plantlet raising and primary crop production of leafy salad.

SHAWN (Secure High availability Avionics Wireless Networks) aspires to replace some of the wired communication networks used between on-board aircraft computing systems with wireless alternatives. This will bring weight savings and greater flexibility in these systems, contributing to reduced emissions from air travel, reduced fuel burn and less instances of unscheduled maintenance. Wireless technology cannot be adopted however if it compromises safety of flight in any way. Users of commercial wireless technology for home networks are familiar with temporary loss of networks or, worse still, intrusion from users outside of the network. This project aims to address those issues through the use of multiple radio channels (to ensure that the network is always available and not prone to interference from other wireless devices) and advanced security features to prevent eavesdropping and accidental or malicious corruption of data on the network. These are not the only topics to address but this project aligns well with other global activities that, as a combined effort, will bring around adoption of the technology.

Service Protection and Acceleration into the Cloud for Enterprise (SPACE) project will define the blueprint for an innovative cloud service to support commercial collaboration between the UK cloud software and cloud services vendors. The project will establish technical and commercial viability of a national infrastructure for enterprise data protection, allowing the UK to compete effectively with large international software companies that are exploiting their software ownership to gain advantage in the international cloud services market. The project will deliver detailed specifications for enhancing an existing UK software product to meet the functional, information security, user experience and cost requirements. The consortium includes: ThinkingSafe (TSL), Royal Holloway University of London, Information Security Group (ISG) and Wax-RDC (WAX). The commercial service will be implemented by TSL, and exploited in collaboration with other UK service providers.

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This project will develop reservoir characterisation software which will enhance recovery from turbidite deposits. Specifically, it will improve accuracy of the hydrocarbon flow models universally used by oil companies. A previously developed model has demonstrated this approach for reconnaissance purposes, but industry feedback indicates that a reservoir evaluation version would be even more useful and commercially successful. To achieve this we will develop a multi-flow computer program to model connectivity between successive sand deposits. The proposed software will make available affordable inverse modelling of multiple flows and deliver rapid solutions without the expense of clusters or supercomputers.

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Researchers from the Information Security Group (ISG) at Royal Holloway, University of London, Salford and Cranfield Universities have undertaken a three year collaborative research project with consent and privacy specialists at Consult Hyperion and Sunderland City Council, to explore how people engage with concepts of information privacy and consent in on-line interactions. The purpose of VOME (Visualisation and Other Methods of Expression) is to explore how user communities engage with concepts of information privacy and consent in on-line interactions. The aim is to develop alternative conceptual models of on-line privacy which enable users to make clearer on-line disclosure choices. These decision making models will facilitate a better dialogue between the designers of privacy and consent functionality and their customers. This project offers benefits to on-line service providers, the manufacturers of technology used to deploy on-line services, as well as the general public. To date there has been considerable interest in this project from each of these communities.

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