Funding And Awards

£524.8k research income secured as Principle Investigator

Ongoing Project

• Principal Investigator, EPSRC Federated Telecoms Hub 6G Research Partnership Funds (THRPF), Securing Spectrum Connectivity: Over-the-Air Authentication Using Radio Frequency Fingerprinting, £128k, July 2024 to March 2025. Partner: Heriot Watt University and Queen’s University Belfast. The total awarded amount is £331k.
• Principal Investigator, Royal Society Research Grants, Skies with Safety: Distributed Identification of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using RF Hardware Fingerprints, £55.8k, March 2023 to March 2025

Completed Project

• Principal Investigator, EPSRC New Investigator Award, A New Frontier For Internet of Things Security: Far-Flung Key Generation , £310k, Jan. 2022 to Jun. 2024
• Principal Investigator, Royal Society Research Grants, Classifying Wireless Siblings of the LoRa Family, Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification using Deep Learning, £19k, March 2019 to March 2020
• Principal Investigator, EPSRC 2022 Vacation Bursary Programme project, Deep Learning-based Wireless Device Classification, 2022

Travel Grants

• UK-China University Consortium on Engineering Education and Research (UKCEER) Mobility Grant for Early Career Researchers, Host: Professor Aiqun Hu in Southeast University, China, Aug., 2019, £3,000
• British Council Travel Grant – The Researcher Links initiative in Turkey, Sept., 2017, £1,500
• IEEE Signal Processing Society Travel Grants for ICASSP 2015
• Queen’s University Belfast Emily Sarah Montgomery Travel Scholarship 2015