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Eco-friendly 3D Printing Mortar with Low Cement Content: Investigation on Printability and Mechanical Properties

Journal Article
Sukontasukkul, P., Komkham, S., Jamnam, S., Zhang, H., Fujikake, K., Puttiwongrak, A., & Hansapinyo, C. (2024)
Eco-friendly 3D Printing Mortar with Low Cement Content: Investigation on Printability and Mechanical Properties. Civil Engineering Journal, 10(3), https://doi.org/10.28991/CEJ-2024-010-03-010
The conventional approach to achieving optimal printability and buildability in 3D printing mortar relies heavily on cement, which is both costly and environmentally detriment...

Digital Twins: Towards an Overarching Framework for the Built Environment

Journal Article
Bagireanu, A., Bros-Williamson, J., Duncheva, M., & Currie, J. (2024)
Digital Twins: Towards an Overarching Framework for the Built Environment. Architectural and Environmental Engineering, 18(1), 1-11
Digital Twins (DTs) have entered the built environment from more established industries like aviation and manufacturing, although there has never been a common goal for utilis...

Privacy-Aware Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) Using Bilinear Group Accumulators in Batch Mode

Conference Proceeding
Buchanan, W., Grierson, S., & Uribe, D. (2024)
Privacy-Aware Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) Using Bilinear Group Accumulators in Batch Mode. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy (226-233). https://doi.org/10.5220/0012454300003648
Biometric data is often highly sensitive, and a leak of this data can lead to serious privacy breaches. Some of the most sensitive of this type of data relates to the usage of...

Improved Double Deep Q Network-Based Task Scheduling Algorithm in Edge Computing for Makespan Optimization

Journal Article
Zeng, L., Liu, Q., Shen, S., & Liu, X. (2024)
Improved Double Deep Q Network-Based Task Scheduling Algorithm in Edge Computing for Makespan Optimization. Tsinghua Science and Technology, 29(3), 806 - 817. https://doi.org/10.26599/TST.2023.9010058
Edge computing nodes undertake more and more tasks as business density grows. How to efficiently allocate large-scale and dynamic workloads to edge computing resources has bec...

Scottish Mountain Soundscapes

Presentation / Conference
Di Donato, B., & McGregor, I. (2024, June)
Scottish Mountain Soundscapes. Presented at Invited seminar at UniMont, University of Milan, Edolo, Italy
Mountain environments provide an immersive auditory experience shaped by natural forces and human interactions. This seminar presents results from an ongoing project that delv...

The digital Foley: what Foley artists say about using audio synthesis

Conference Proceeding
Di Donato, B., & McGregor, I. (2024)
The digital Foley: what Foley artists say about using audio synthesis. In Proceedings of the 2024 AES 6th International Conference on Audio for Games
Foley is a sound production technique where organicity and authenticity in sound creation are key to fostering creativity. Audio synthesis, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and In...

Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on audiology service delivery: Observational study of the role of social media in patient communication

Journal Article
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted an era in hearing health care that necessitates a comprehensive rethinking of audiology service delivery. There has been a significant in...

The British Rail Total Operations Processing System And the Birth of Telematics

Journal Article
Urquhart, N. (in press)
The British Rail Total Operations Processing System And the Birth of Telematics. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, https://doi.org/10.1109/mahc.2024.3393611
Contemporary mobility is almost universally supported by telecommunications networks and computing facilities known collectively as telematics. This has allowed closer integ...

Heating system oversizing and low-temperature readiness of a pre-1919 school in Scotland

Journal Article
Reguis, A., Currie, J., & Tunzi, M. (2024)
Heating system oversizing and low-temperature readiness of a pre-1919 school in Scotland. Energy and Buildings, 312, Article 114202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2024.114202
As part of the decarbonization of its existing building stock the UK needs to replace gas boilers with heat pumps and low-temperature heat networks. Both technologies are effi...

Engine performance and emissions from a fumigated hydrogen/ammonia compression ignition engine with a hydrogen peroxide pilot

Journal Article
Paterson, G., Tingas, E., Hardalupas, Y., & Taylor, A. M. (2024)
Engine performance and emissions from a fumigated hydrogen/ammonia compression ignition engine with a hydrogen peroxide pilot. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 67, 334-350. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2024.04.151
The study investigates, numerically, the potential use of introducing aqueous HO as an ignition promoter in a statistically homogeneous NH/H fuelled, medium speed (1250 rpm), ...

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Unlocking the Potential of Alternative Building Technologies and Informal Construction Strategies in Sustainable Housing Provision

2023 - 2024
The project examines how new materials (specifically alternative building technologies - ABTs) can be integrated into the supply chain to address conventional materials' limitations and enhance sustai...
Funder: Royal Academy of Engineering | Value: £12,500

FLYSWX AI Feasibility Study

2023 - 2024
Small World Aviation wants to develop an AI-powered Airline Optimisation Modelto enhance and optimise its flight planning and analysis.This project focuses on utilising AI-driven data analysis for pre...
Funder: Innovate UK | Value: £23,728

Attitudes and behaviours towards 20mph speed limit 3 years post intervention

2023 - 2024
1) Augment the previous research undertaken by the Transport Research Institute, Edinburgh Napier University, to assess the impacts of the implementation of 20mph default speed limits across all Scott...
Funder: Paths for All Partnership | Value: £47,153

TruElect

2023 - 2025
This KTP project aims to building a trustworthy infrastructure for the voting process, including using trusted methods of citizen identity, voting sustation, and privacy preserving methods.
Funder: Innovate UK | Value: £202,937

Commercialisation of Homegrown Wood Fibre

2023 - 2025
To enhance the utilisation of the current English Forest resource for built environment delivery and correspondingly influence future forest strategies by demonstrating what is possible and scalable. ...
Funder: Forestry Commission England | Value: £4,200

Commercialisation of Homegrown Wood Fibre

2023 - 2025
To enhance the utilisation of the current English Forest resource for built environment delivery and correspondingly influence future forest strategies by demonstrating what is possible and scalable. ...
Funder: Forestry Commission England | Value: £4,200

PhD Studentship (Homomorphic Encryption)

2023 - 2026
This PhD studentship will be funded at £10k per year for a period of three years, and focus on homomorphic encryption in 5G / 6G network slices and strategies to foster and enhance federated structure...
Funder: 6G Health Institute GmbH | Value: £35,082

Development and Optimisation of the Dolphin Wave Energy Converter

2023 - 2027
The Dolphin Wave Energy Converter will be analysed and optimised using different techniques. Experimental and theoretical work will be required to come up with an optimum device capable of gathering e...
Funder: Pentland Material Supply Ltd | Value: £65,229

Joint PhD Studentship-International (Real-Time Data Management and Communication for Digital Twin Networks)

2023 - 2026
This International PhD studentship will be funded at £18k per year for a period of three years, and focus on real-time data management and communication to build an Internet of Twins environment, a ne...
Value: £54,455

Evaluation of Federated Machine Unlearning using Membership Inference Attacks

2023 - 2026
Federated Learning (FL) is a type of distributed Machine Learning (ML) training technique that allows for accurate predictions without sharing sensitive data. This is possible, as FL allows everyone t...
Funder: Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland | Value: £73,564

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Assessing the early impact of data skills training initiatives

2024 - date
Fredrick Mbuya | Director of Studies: Dr Khristin Fabian | Second Supervisor: Prof Sally Smith

Investigation and development wearable sensors for remoting health monitoring

2024 - date
Zifeng He | Director of Studies: Dr Hongnian Yu | Second Supervisor: Dr Chan Hwang See

Digital Forensic Triage Methods for Prioritization, based on Computer System and User Classification

2024 - date
Mark McLeod | Director of Studies: Dr Sean McKeown | Second Supervisor: Rich Macfarlane

The influence of particle characteristics on the field-scale geomechanical behaviour of soils

2024 - date
Eslam Mohamed | Director of Studies: Dr Daniel Barreto Gonzalez | Second Supervisor: Dr Juan Bernal-Sanchez

An AI-driven and IoT-assisted approach to explainable smart banking and finance services

2024 - date
Fatima Mumtaz | Director of Studies: Prof Xiaodong Liu | Second Supervisor: Dr Oluwaseun Bamgboye

Enhancing the Security and Privacy of Blockchain-based Healthcare Systems using Multi-Party Computation and Threshold Signatures

2024 - date
. Faneela | Director of Studies: Dr Jawad Ahmad | Second Supervisor: Dr Baraq Ghaleb

Development of recyclable bio-based materials with potential in packaging

2024 - date
Sanaz Soleymanieilbakhtiari | Director of Studies: Dr Reza Salehiyan | Second Supervisor: Prof Islam Shyha

Control of Utility-Scale renewable energy power plants for compensating variable generation and providing Ancillary Services to the grid

2024 - date
Ateeb Hassan | Director of Studies: Dr Jubaer Ahmed | Second Supervisor: Dr Savvas Papadopoulos

From Lavender Menaces to Rebel Dykes: Ethical metadata and developing frameworks to challenge power

2024 - date
Mx Leslie Abbott | Director of Studies: Prof Diane McAdie | Second Supervisor: Dr David Haynes

Organisational Learning and Agile Coaches

2024 - date
Timothy Montgomery | Director of Studies: Dr Pritam Chita | Second Supervisor: Dr Peter Cruickshank

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Blog for Public Health Scotland

19 December 2023
Blog on 20mph speed limits in settlements across Scotland as a move from 30mph. This follows the Bute House Agreement between the SNP and Green Party so that the Scottish Government has stated that al...

Basil Manoussos delivers Keynote at INTERPOL's DFEG2023 Conference

16 August 2023
Basil Manoussos delivers Keynote at INTERPOL's Digital Forensics Expert Group [DFEG2023] Conference. Basil's keynote is drawn from his personal experience as an Expert Witness in Digital Evidence & C...

Dr Timothy Olawumi was a resource person at WAiC Webinar

27 September 2022
Dr Timothy Olawumi was invited as a guest speaker/resource person at a Webinar hosted by Women Academics in Construction (WAiC) on September 27, 2022. Title: Getting Published in High Impact Journals...

Promising cyber security project supported by new Scottish Enterprise funding

21 September 2022
TrueDeploy, an exciting project from the School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment (SCEBE) at Edinburgh Napier University (ENU), has secured £199,952 in additional support from Scottish...

New leader of Social Informatics research group

1 September 2022
Peter Cruickshank now leader of the Social Informatics research group

Visiting professor in Wireless Communication - Royal Academy of Engineering

31 August 2022
Dr Junaid Syed has been appointed Visiting Professor to the School of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment. The grant is 3 years which is funded by the Royal Academy of Engineering from Se...

Dr Timothy Olawumi was a panelist at a Live Talk Show - Construction Carbon Talk

17 June 2022
Dr Timothy Olawumi was a panelist on a Live Talk Show – the ConstructionCarbonTalk organised by Leeds Beckett University and YORhub (Partner - https://www.yorhub.com/). Title: How does BIM facilitate...

Dr Dimitra Gkatzia invited to join panel on "Explainable AI" at the Scottish AI Summit

30 March 2022
Panel title: Why is explainable AI still a challenge? Trustworthiness and explainability are increasingly recognised as key to the widespread adoption of AI systems. But can, and should, all AI model...

Double funding success for School of Computing

21 March 2022
Two projects from Edinburgh Napier’s acclaimed School of Computing have won funding from a programme which develops innovative cyber security ideas for the commercial market. TrueDeploy and Trustd ar...

Dr Chris Guiver awarded one-year Royal Society of Edinburgh personal research fellowship

9 March 2022
Dr Chris Guiver, of Edinburgh Napier University's School of Engineering and the Built Environment, has been awarded a one-year personal Research Fellowship by the Royal Society of Edinburgh in their a...

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