Partner 1 : Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (LUT)/Department of Software Engineering
LUT’s department of software engineering employs 80+ researchers and conducts inter-disciplinary research surrounding software engineering, digital transformation, and user centred design. Our researchers come from different backgrounds such as software engineering, business information systems, psychology, and social science. LUT’s expertise that would be most relevant for this project is on designing and developing secure, privacy-preserving, GDPR compliant, and usable frameworks and its applications using blockchain and AI. LUT has also expertise in evaluating the frameworks and applications and assessing their impacts on organizations.
Professor A.K.M. Najmul Islam (PI) conducts research in 1) System design and development using blockchain and AI and
2) Impacts of digital systems on individuals and organizations. His publications have appeared in many top journals and conferences. He has acquired approximately 6 million euros of external funding and successfully led the projects in the past.
Partner 2 : Universidad de Castilla – La Mancha (UCLM) /Security and Audit Group
The security and audit group (GSyA) (http://gsya.esi.uclm.es) from UCLM has a trajectory of almost 20 years of research in different lines, related to software development security and security governance. This group has additionally addressed numerous research lines for the incorporation of security into the analysis and design of modern systems (mobile devices, DW, cloud computing, etc.). Based on this experience, the GSyA Group will lead the tasks related to the area of improvement concerning risk analysis and management.
Prof. Eduardo Fernández-Medina (PI) received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from UCLM, Spain, where he is currently a Full Professor. His research interests are in the field of security in information systems, particularly in security in Big Data, cloud computing, and cyber-physical systems.
Partner 3 : Firat University (FU) / Computer Technologies Department – Ecoinformatics Department
Firat University (FU) is a research university that makes significant contributions to the development of universities in Türkiye. In the field of Computer science and engineering; it is one of the prominent universities in Türkiye which includes Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Digital Forensics Engineering (unique in Türkiye), Eco informatics (unique in Türkiye), and Computer Technologies departments. FU is ranked in the Top 1,000 World Universities.
Assoc.Prof. Dr. Muharrem Tuncay Gençoğlu (PI) holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Fırat University and a Ph.D. in Cryptology from Vector Sciences Academy. He has expertise in Cryptocurrency analysis and Deep Learning. He was a researcher in the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Berlin Technical University. Currently, he is a member of American Association for AI, International Association for Cryptologic Research, Azerbaijan Cyber Security Association, Information Security Association, Blockchain Turkey Platform.
Partner 4 : Nantes University / LS2N
The LS2N Lab (UMR CNRS 6004) at Nantes University (NU) gathers ~600 people in all the Digital Sciences. 20+ research teams address computer science and robotics challenges. The STACK research group focusing on challenges related to the management and advanced usages of Utility Computing infrastructures (i.e., Cloud, Fog, Edge, and beyond): http://stack.inria.fr. The team is interested in delivering appropriate system abstractions to operate and use the next generation of digital infrastructures where data centres, networks and IoT devices are all integrated. Making significant contributions in this area is critical for the emergence of new kinds of applications related to the digitalization of society (smart-homes, virtual reality, industrial internet, e-health, etc.).
Associate professor Kandaraj Piamrat (PI) received the Engineering degree from Polytech Grenoble in 2005. She did her exchange program at University of Texas at Austin where she obtained university honours. She has been doing her Ph.D. at INRIA Rennes during 2007–2010 and was visiting researcher at VTT Finland and NII Japan. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Technicolor (InterDigital) during 2010–2012. She was assistant professor (12-13) and associate professor(13-17 ), University of Rennes. Her research interests concern resource management in wireless and mobile networks with a focus on user experience and knowledge-based techniques. This includes intelligent analysis and management in wireless and mobile networks using artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques such as approaches based on supervised /semi-supervised /non-supervised and federated learning.
