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Professor Máire O'Neill, ECIT Director and a distinguished Queen's University faculty member, has taken on a leadership role in a prominent EPSRC AI project that has received £31 million in funding to develop Responsible & Trustworthy AI.
An Interim Director has been appointed for the new £58m Global Innovation Institute (GII), which will be based at Queen’s University Belfast and completed in the next three years.
This represents the scale of progress and ambition of the region’s cyber ecosystem, highlighting that over 100 companies with cyber security operations, ranging from start-ups to multinational corporations, are based in Northern Ireland.
Queen’s University Belfast researchers will play an integral role in a new £7 million project which will shape and develop the future of electromagnetic science and technology.
Four researchers from Queen's University Belfast’s Centre for Wireless Innovation (CWI) will play a major role in two new research and innovation platforms set up by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
The UK Government has announced £18.9 million investment in NI’s Cyber Security industry, including £11 million Government funding through the New Deal for Northern Ireland, to develop a pipeline of cyber security professionals in NI as well helping
The Global Innovation Institute (GII) has announced over £100,000 funding for a pilot project to drive multidisciplinary activity between academics and industry or other external partners.
Ensuring the future of the UK's telecommunication network is secure, caters to all of society, boosts the economy and is highly energy efficient is the goal of a new £12m international project, which Queen’s researchers are working on.
Members of staff at Queen’s University Belfast have been recognised in the New Year Honours List 2023.
The International Cyber Security Center of Excellence (INCS-CoE) is delighted to welcome Queen’s University Belfast as a Core Member and its first from Northern Ireland.
UKRI has funded a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) project between QUB and the company Bia Analytical Ltd.
Queen’s University Belfast and partners have been granted nearly £12 million from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, to develop and industrialise technologies and solutions for future 6G mobile networks.
Professor Michalis Matthaiou awarded prestigious IEEE Fellowship for his longstanding contributions to fundamental research and practical implementation of massive MIMO.
Hardware security experts gathered at Prince Philip House in London on 2nd December 2022 for The Research Institute for Secure Hardware and Embedded Systems (RISE) 5th Annual Conference.
A partnership between Queen’s University Belfast and Cirdan has been recognised by Innovate UK as the ‘Best Knowledge Transfer Partnership’ of 2022 out of 800 UK wide projects for its exceptional achievements and real-world impact.
The Global Innovation Institute (GII) has announced over £100,000 funding for a pilot project to drive multidisciplinary activity between academics and industry or other external partners.
The Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) based at Queen’s University Belfast hosted the Rolls-Royce Cyber Technology Research Network 2nd Annual Conference in Belfast on 15th-17th November 2022.
The Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) and Rapid 7 have developed the first deep learning system to optimize DAST vulnerability triage in application security.
The UK Government has created a new National Cyber Advisory Board to help protect and promote the UK’s interests in cyberspace, including how best to counter growing cyber threats.
Nusrat Ghani MP learns about the world class research and developments at ECIT.
Nadhim Zahawi, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has visited Queen’s University to celebrate Northern Ireland’s exceptionally strong cybersecurity sector.
The first CEO of the UK National Cyber Security Centre, Ciaran Martin, is receiving a Doctor of Science in Engineering for distinction in engineering today.
Queen’s University Belfast has appointed a new Executive Director for its £58m Global Innovation Institute, an expansion of the Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology(ECIT) which will be completed in the next three years.
The leading authority for cyber security in the UK has recognised Queen’s University Belfast for its high standard of cyber security education.
A new £58 million Global Innovation Institute (GII) is on course to open in Belfast by 2025, Queen’s University has revealed.
An electronic engineering Professor at Queen’s University Belfast has been elected as a new Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), which is the highest recognition of scientific endeavour in the UK.
Queen’s and UCD have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to enhance cooperation in research and innovation in areas of mutual strength.
Rolls-Royce has today announced that they are partnering with Queen’s University in Belfast to address cyber threats.
Queens University Belfast is one of 24 UK Universities to have been named among the first-ever successful applicants to The Alan Turing Institute’s Network Development Awards.
Economy Minister Gordon Lyons today announced that Queen’s University Belfast and NVIDIA will invest £5.4million in a joint Research and Development (R&D) project.
Hans Vandierendonck, Professor of High-Performance and Data-Intensive Computing at Queen's University Belfast (QUB) has recently been appointed Director of the Centre for Data Science and Scalable Computing (DSSC) based at ECIT.
Professor Trung Duong awarded prestigious IEEE Fellowship.
RAF announces pioneering innovation node for Northern Ireland tapping into NI's strong cyber talent pool.
Belfast based software consultancy firm Pytilia were selected as part of UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) ‘Digital Security by Design’ (DSbD) competition to deliver technologies that will improve software defences against cyber vulnerabilities.
ECIT was delighted to welcome Scott McDonald, CEO British Council, on 17th November 2021 for a tour of facilities.
AntennaWare, a wearable tech start-up, has been successful in getting through to the 2021 Regional Finals of InterTrade Ireland’s Seedcorn Investor Readiness Competition in the 'Early Stage Company' Category.
ECIT spin-out company, Liopa, has secured its first commercial contract with a UK based hospital for its Artificial Intelligence (AI) lip-reading app, SRAVI (Speech Recognition Application for the Voice Impaired).
This DCMS-backed programme will support the growth of 160 cyber entrepreneurs, startups, SMEs and scaleups.
The Royal Academy of Engineering and WMG, at the University of Warwick have shortlisted 11 exceptional collaborations for the inaugural Bhattacharyya Award.
The Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) based at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) and new Belfast based start-up, Pytilia, are working together on UKRI funded project to strengthen the future of digital security by design.
ECIT tech spin-out, AntennaWare has secured a "significant six-figure sum" following a seed funding round.
A new Edge Computing Hub, based at Queen's University Belfast (QUB), aims to unlock the scientific and societal opportunities in the next Internet frontier, Edge computing.
A report launched at the Secure Connected Intelligence Summit, taking place this week at Queen’s University Belfast, shows that Northern Ireland’s cyber sector now employs 2,300 people across 104 companies, generating £110m in salaries each year.
Dr Hien Quoc Ngo has featured in the 2021 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Annual List. He was awarded AI 2000 Most Influential Scholars Honorable Mention in the Internet of Things (IoT) category.
Dr Ciara Rafferty caught up with Quantum Communications Hub to talk all things post-quantum cryptography. Check out the interview below.
Queen’s University Belfast and the Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) today (Friday, 26 March) welcomed the new CEO of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), Lindy Cameron, CB OBE, at a joint virtual event.
Two researchers from the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at Queen’s University Belfast have been awarded prestigious fellowships from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) worth a total of £1.1m.
Global EPIC relaunches its Soft Landing Programme with 13 innovative ecosystems taking part.
Developments in smart technologies are set to create many new job opportunities over the next decade and pupils and their parents can find about them from an award-winning QUB science communicator at a free online event on Tuesday (23 February).
New research carried out by Ipsos MORI, Perspective Economics and CSIT published today by DCMS says record year for UK’s £8.9bn cyber security sector.
An alternative to cloud computing promises smaller carbon footprint and reduced latency.
Queen’s University Belfast has been named as one of the UK’s first Academic Centres of Excellence in Cyber Security Education.
Thirty funded postdoctoral scholarships announced by Queen’s University Belfast are set to provide a unique opportunity to explore the challenges of Artificial intelligence (AI) for every area of science and society.
New software to tackle cybersecurity risks increased by remote working has been developed through a partnership between Queen’s University Belfast and Belfast-based tech company Ampliphae.
Dr Hien Ngo was awarded the Early Career Researcher prize in the QUB Vice Chancellors Research Prizes 2020.
A researcher at Queen’s University Belfast has been awarded £1.7m (2 million euro) funding to lead a five year project underpinning wireless communications as far ahead as the mid-2030s.
A study that was conducted at ECIT for over a year was published and nominated for the 'Best Paper Award' at the prestigious IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture® (MICRO).
Shabnam Khanna is a cybersecurity PhD student at ECIT, but in her spare time Shabnam volunteers with St John Ambulance.
Invent is an annual competition that supports, recognises and rewards local innovations and proof of concept ideas that have the greatest commercial potential in Northern Ireland.
Three researchers from ECIT’s Centre for Wireless Innovation attended the virtual IEEE 5G World Forum where they presented a paper and were awarded first place.
The Royal Society has today (16th Sept 2020) published their ‘Research and innovation clusters’ report.
Two academics from Queen's University were today (Monday 14 September) presented with Gold Medals from the Royal Irish Academy.
An academic from Queen’s University Belfast has been awarded a five-year prestigious Research Chair from the Royal Academy of Engineering to study 6G.
A researcher from Queen’s University Belfast has been awarded a five-year research fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering to make delays in wireless networks a thing of the past.
CIISec is delighted to welcome Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) as a new Academic partner.
Researchers from Queen’s University Belfast are providing independent oversight and expert advice to the team developing the new StopCOVID NI app.
The International Workshop on Integrated Nonlinear Microwave and Millimetre-wave Circuits (INMMiC) 2020 was held virtually on 16-17th July from Cardiff, Wales.
The Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) at Queen’s University is being used by the UK Government as a case study on how investment in research, development and innovation can deliver economic impact to the surrounding area and beyond.
Researchers from Queen’s University Belfast are part of a £33 million UK Government innovation grant to develop zero emissions ferries in Belfast over the next four years.
Academics from Queen’s University have been awarded $310,738 for research towards intelligent welfare monitoring of chickens farmed for their meat.
Dr Paul Miller has been appointed the role of Deputy Director of the Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT).
Dr Varghese will partner with BT as part of this fellowship which aims to build collaborative links between industrial and academic sectors.
Government-backed innovation programme launches recruitment for new group of scaleups.
The UK Defence Solutions Centre (UKDSC) is pleased to announce that Queen’s University Belfast has become a UKDSC Associate Member.
The deal signals the latest boost for Belfast’s thriving technology sector.
ECIT researcher has invented a low cost telecommunication system using drones which provides early warning on natural disasters and acts as a wifi ‘hotspot’ when phone signal is disrupted during extreme weather.
The UK’s cyber security industry is now worth an estimated £8.3 billion, with total revenues in the sector up 46 per cent since 2017, research from Queen’s University Belfast has revealed.
A researcher from Queen’s University Belfast has developed an innovative new algorithm that will help make artificial intelligence (AI) fairer and less biased when processing data.
World leading cybersecurity expert Professor Máire O’Neill has been assigned a rare and prestigious Regius Professorship by the Vice-Chancellor of Queen’s University Belfast.
Airport security queues could be slashed and screening for weapons could become much more effective after Queen’s University Belfast researchers have been awarded £1 million to develop a ground-breaking solution.
This week LORCA introduced 20 scaleups selected to join their fourth cohort of cyber innovators, which is their largest and most international yet.
Rakuten Mobile, Japan’s newest mobile network operator, is collaborating with Queen’s University Belfast to set up an Edge computing hub, which will be based in Belfast.
Prof Simon Cotton, director for the Centre for Wireless Innovation in Belfast, is part of a team already looking beyond 5G into the world of 6G.
Dr. Georgios Karakonstantis has been elevated to the grade of Senior Member of IEEE for his achievements; a recognition achieved by only 8% of IEEE's 425,000 members across 160 countries.
Fog computing is expected to become the next major computing paradigm that will change the way we use the Internet behind the scenes.
The Research Institute of Secure Hardware and Embedded Systems (RISE) hosted their 2nd Annual Conference at the National Liberal Club in London on 21st November 2019.
LORCA has launched a global open call for our fourth cohort of cyber scaleups.
The Royal Academy of Engineering has elected Professor Máire O'Neill, Acting Director of ECIT and Director of the £5M EPSRC/NCSC-funded Research Institute in Secure Hardware and Embedded Systems (RISE), as a Fellow.
The Centre for Wireless Innovation (CWI) at Queen’s University Belfast has been ranked 28th globally in the ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects in Telecommunication Engineering.
Máire O’Neill, Acting Director of ECIT, has been appointed to the newly formed global technology policy council by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Queen’s University Belfast and Ulster University have launched a new joint website as part of their £30 million commitment to the Belfast Region City Deal (BRCD).
Professor Máire O’Neill was among an impressive line-up of speakers at the inaugural TEDx event at Queen's University Belfast.
The Rt Hon Karen Bradley MP, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, visited ECIT and toured the new CSIT Cyber Range and CWI Keysight Millimeter-Wave research lab
Professor Máire O'Neill has been appointed to a body designed to develop the UK artificial intelligence (AI) sector.
Queen’s is helping secure Northern Ireland’s status as a global cyber security hub by offering 40 full scholarships worth over half a million pounds for its specialist Applied Cyber Security MSc programme.
A researcher from The Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT) has been awarded a major grant that will allow him to build a five strong team to work on developing a new mobile network concept.
The Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) at Queen’s University Belfast, has provided extensive engineering support to innovative cyber security company, Surevine, which will support better in critical infrastructure supply-chains.
The London Office for Rapid Cybersecurity Advancement (LORCA) launches the open call for its third cohort of cyber innovators.
A team of researchers at Queen’s University Belfast’s Centre for Wireless Innovation have won a global award for their work in creating a solution which will reduce the cost and complexity of 5G mobile networks.
Three researchers from the Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT) at Queen’s University Belfast have been shortlisted as finalists in the esteemed Mobile World Scholar Challenge.
As part of InterTradeIreland’s innovation programme, FUSION, ECIT researchers worked alongside CreVinn Teoranta to develop cutting edge solutions in hardware acceleration for high performance computing.
The Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) has been shortlisted for Research Laboratory Team of the Year in the Irish Laboratory Awards 2019.
Computer scientists at Queen’s University Belfast have designed a new innovative system to reduce delays on smart devices.
Queen’s University Belfast cybersecurity expert Professor Máire O’Neill has been awarded US$30,000 in the second annual Blavatnik Awards in the UK, which honour outstanding young scientists under the age of 42.
The Centre for Wireless Innovation (CWI) at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) hosted a workshop on "Research Advances in Radio Frequency Through Millimetre Wave Radio Communications Technologies" to celebrate 60 years of Microwave Engineering at QUB.
The University Defence Research Collaboration (UDRC) will host the 8th conference of the Sensor Signal Processing for Defence (SSPD) series which will be held in Brighton on the 9-10 May.
The world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery), has named Professor Dimitrios Nikolopoulos among 49 Distinguished Members recognised for outstanding contributions to the field.
The IAE presented the Parsons Medal to Prof Sir McCanny at a ceremony in Belfast, onboard HMS Caroline, on 25 October. A crowd of esteemed engineers, academics and Prof Sir McCanny’s friends and family attended the day’s festivities.
Dr Michalis Matthaiou, a researcher at the Centre of Wireless Innovation (CWI) at Queen’s University Belfast, won Best Paper Award at the 2018 International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP) in Hangzhou, China.
This Academy Discourse by Professor Máire O'Neill is the eighth in the series sponsored by Mason Hayes & Curran
The Irish Academy of Engineering (IAE) has announced that Professor Sir John McCanny CBE FRS FREng FIAE of Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) will receive this year’s Parson’s Medal.
Today, 9 global cyber security ecosystems in 5 different countries announced a 'Soft Landing Programme'.
The Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) based at Queen’s University Belfast has announced Kildare based start-up Tixserve as the newest addition to its associate membership programme.
A Queen’s University Belfast student has developed software which can detect insurance fraud quickly.
A Queen’s University Researcher has been awarded the Best PhD award for 2018 by the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP).
Queen’s University Belfast is investing £500k in a brand new state-of-the-art cyber security research lab at the Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT).
Ten new research and engineering jobs are being created at Queen’s University Belfast, to meet the demands of new contracts and the rapidly growing cyber security industry in Northern Ireland.
A new millimeter-wave research lab has been opened by Keysight Technologies, Inc. in collaboration with Queen’s University Belfast.
Four employees from Kainos will graduate today (Thursday 14 December) with a Master’s in Applied Cyber Security.
A £5m multi-university Research Institute to improve hardware security and reduce vulnerability to cyber threats has been launched at the Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT), Queen's University Belfast.
A researcher at Queen’s University Belfast has been awarded the 2017 Newton Prize in Vietnam for his work designing a wireless communications system which can withstand natural disasters such as an earthquake, tsunami or hurricane.
A researcher at Queen’s University Belfast has been shortlisted for the 2017 Newton Prize after he created a robust wireless communications system which can battle through an earthquake, tsunami or hurricane.
Distance learning programme will see Kainos staff turn on-the-job training and expertise into world-class qualifications in cyber security subjects
Cyber London and the Centre for Secure Information Technologies invite applications for joint programme to encourage entrepreneurship in cyber security
Queen’s University Belfast has welcomed the announcement that it has been awarded Northern Ireland’s first Regius Professorship by Her Majesty the Queen.
Queen’s University Belfast’s Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) collaborates with digital financial solutions firm Intelligent Environments through a Knowledge Transfer Partnership
His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales has officially launched Queen’s University Belfast’s first Global Research Institute today (Monday 23 May 2016).
The Centre for Secure Information Technologies at Queen’s – a major hub for research and innovation in electronic engineering and cyber security – will receive a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education.
Justice Minister, David Ford has highlighted work ongoing through the Organised Crime Task Force to tackle cyber crime.
The UniServer project “A Universal Micro-Server Ecosystem by Exceeding Energy and Performance Scaling Boundaries ” led by Queen’s University Belfast has been awarded €4.8million from the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation program.
The Royal Academy of Engineering, with additional support from the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, has awarded eight Research Fellowships to some of the UK’s top engineering researchers working on projects from X-ray imaging to antibiotic resistance.