Funding And Awards

£1.3 million research income secured as Principle Investigator

Ongoing Project

• Principal Investigator, EPSRC, Germany-UK: Securing Device Identification Using Hardware Impairments in RF Circuits, £99.8k, 1 October 2025 to 31 March 2026
• Principal Investigator, EPSRC Lead Agency Agreement with the NSF, NSF ECCS-EPSRC: SecureID: Towards Secure Device Identification Using Radio Frequency Fingerprints, £656k
• Principal Investigator, EPSRC Federated Telecoms Hub 6G Research Partnership Funds (THRPF), Securing Spectrum Connectivity: Over-the-Air Authentication Using Radio Frequency Fingerprinting, £159k, July 2024 to March 2026. Partner: Heriot Watt University and Queen’s University Belfast. The total awarded amount is £393k.
• 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 2026

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

Awards

• Best Workshop Paper Award from IEEE WCNC 2025 link. Noise-Robust Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification Using Denoise Diffusion Model, Guolin Yin, Junqing Zhang, Yuan Ding, and Simon Cotton. arXiv link

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