White Paper Launches

“SECURITY AND PRIVACY IN ASSISTIVE ROBOTICS: CYBERSECURITY CHALLENGES FOR HEALTHCARE.”

Jims Marchang completed his Ph.D. from the CSCAN Research Laboratory, University of Plymouth, UK. He is currently a Sr. Lecturer in Cybersecurity in the Department of Computing at Sheffield Hallam University (SHU). He is an ECR, and a research co-lead of a research theme known as technological and digital innovations to promote independent lives at the Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre (AWRC) and leads an intelligent and secure cybersecurity research group known as iSec CyberNet at the Department of Computing, SHU. He has developed a smart and secure IoT research testbed at SHU for smart monitoring and control. His research focuses on building secure-by-design and privacy-by-design solutions in resource constraint systems and networks including IoT, IoMT, and IoRT (special focus on autonomous care robots). Other key research includes AI-based secure solutions and developing scalable energy-efficient transparent systems like Blockchain Technology.

“INTEROPERABLE ROBOTICS PROVING GROUNDS: INVESTING IN FUTURE-READY TESTING INFRASTRUCTURES.”

Sina Sareh leads Robotics at the Royal College of Art (RCA). He is currently a Reader in Robotics and Design Intelligence whose research develops technological solutions to problems of human safety, access, and performance in a range of industrial operations. He has been the principal investigator and co-investigator on several successfully completed research projects including EPSRC Fellowship on “Getting a Grip”; advanced anchoring modules for robot mobility & manipulation in unstructured environments, and MIMRee; Multi-platform Inspection, Maintenance and Repair in Extreme Environment funded by Innovate UK under the Robotics for a Safer World programme. He holds a PhD in Robotics from the University of Bristol and contributed to a number of high-profile research projects including the EPSRC-funded project Aerial ABM (Aerial Additive Building Manufacturing) at Imperial College London, the EU FP7 STIFF-FLOP at King’s College London, and AAOSN (Adaptive Autonomous Ocean Sampling Networks) at the University of Exeter, before joining the RCA in 2017. Dr Sareh served as an impact assessor of Sub-panel 12: Engineering in the assessment phase of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021.