£1.3 million research income secured as Principal Investigator
Ongoing Projects
Securing Wi-Fi Connectivity by Radio Frequency Fingerprints
- Funder
- EPSRC Federated Telecoms Hubs – Proof of Concept 1
- Award amount
- £74k; total award £110k
- Dates
- 31 October 2025 – 30 September 2026
- Role
- Principal Investigator
Partners: Queen’s University Belfast
NSF ECCS-EPSRC: SecureID: Towards Secure Device Identification Using Radio Frequency Fingerprints
- Funder
- EPSRC Lead Agency Agreement with the NSF
- Award amount
- £656k
- Dates
- 1 March 2026 – 28 February 2029
- Role
- Principal Investigator
Partners: Rice University, USA
Securing Spectrum Connectivity: Over-the-Air Authentication Using Radio Frequency Fingerprinting
- Funder
- EPSRC Federated Telecoms Hub 6G Research Partnership Funds (THRPF)
- Award amount
- £160k; total award £393k
- Dates
- July 2024 – March 2026
- Role
- Principal Investigator
Partners: Heriot Watt University and Queen’s University Belfast
Completed Projects
Skies with Safety: Distributed Identification of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using RF Hardware Fingerprints
- Funder
- Royal Society Research Grants
- Award amount
- £55.8k
- Dates
- March 2023 – September 2026
- Role
- Principal Investigator
Germany-UK: Securing Device Identification Using Hardware Impairments in RF Circuits
- Funder
- EPSRC
- Award amount
- £102k
- Dates
- 1 October 2025 – 31 March 2026
- Role
- Principal Investigator
Partners: Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
A New Frontier For Internet of Things Security: Far-Flung Key Generation
- Funder
- EPSRC New Investigator Award
- Award amount
- £310k
- Dates
- January 2022 – June 2024
- Role
- Principal Investigator
Classifying Wireless Siblings of the LoRa Family, Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification using Deep Learning
- Funder
- Royal Society Research Grants
- Award amount
- £19k
- Dates
- March 2019 – March 2020
- Role
- Principal Investigator
Awards
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Best Workshop Paper Award — IEEE WCNC 2025
Noise-Robust Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification Using Denoise Diffusion Model
Guolin Yin, Junqing Zhang, Yuan Ding, and Simon Cotton.
Travel Grants
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UK-China University Consortium on Engineering Education and Research (UKCEER) Mobility Grant for Early Career Researchers
Host: Professor Aiqun Hu, Southeast University, China · August 2019 · £3,000
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British Council Travel Grant – The Researcher Links initiative in Turkey
September 2017 · £1,500
- IEEE Signal Processing Society Travel Grants for ICASSP 2015
- Queen’s University Belfast Emily Sarah Montgomery Travel Scholarship 2015