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TROCI

Research Project

Towards Resilient Operation of Critical Infrastructures - Application to Water and Energy Systems.

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About TROCI

This three-year transnational research project will allow a multidisciplinary team comprised of partners from across Europe to work on the development of innovative hybrid hardware-software solutions using advanced use cases to enhance the resilience of critical water and energy infrastructures in response to cyber threats. TROCI will develop a disruptive Instrumentation and Control (I&C) platform for critical infrastructures that will combine advanced machine learning and AI methods, novel sensing solutions, IoT and stakeholders to make critical water and energy infrastructures secure, private and resilient. UCD team brings interdisciplinary expertise in civil engineering and computer science and will focus on applications of developed solutions in critical water infrastructures. The scientific and technical breakthroughs promised in this project will open new research opportunities in critical infrastructure resilience enhancement, promote objective benchmarking, develop skilled manpower and accelerate industry adoption.

TROCI (Towards Resilient Operation of Critical Infrastructure) is supported by the Irish Research Council in Ireland, with funding from the EU CHIST-ERA programme. There are four project partners: UCD (Ireland), University of Sheffield (UK), University of Vienna (Austria), and Holisun (Romania). University of Sheffield is coordinating and managing the project.

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Project Team

Dr Md Salauddin

Dr. Md Salauddin

Assistant Professor of Hydraulic Engineering

Dr Md Salauddin is a Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Water and Environmental Engineering within the School of Civil Engineering. His research interests include the application of nature-based solutions in a changing climate, climate change and extremes, climate resilience of critical coastal infrastructures, storm surge and wave impacts on coastal protections, wave structure interactions at sea defences, extreme coastal hazards (impact pressures, scouring, overtopping, hydraulic stability of coastal structures), offshore renewable energy (wave, wind, and tidal energy), and water quality. Dr Salauddin is currently supervising 3 PhDs and 4 Research Masters working on resilience of hydraulic infrastructures under changing climatic conditions. He has published 60+ peer-reviewed research papers in reputed journals and national/international conferences.

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Dr Anca Delia Jurcut

Dr Anca Delia Jurcut

Assistant Professor

Dr. Anca Jurcut is an Assistant Professor in the UCD School of Computer Science. Dr. Jurcut research interests include Security Protocols Design and Analysis, Mathematical Modelling, Automated Techniques for Formal Verification, Cryptography, Computer Algorithms, Security for Internet of Things and Blockchain Security. Much of her work has focused on formal verification techniques for security protocols using deductive reasoning methods; automation of logics for formal verification; the development of new logic-based techniques and tools for formal verification; the design and analysis of security protocols; formalisation and modelling of design requirements for security protocols. She is a H2020 expert reviewer and on the review committee for successful H2020 proposals for the European Commission. She contributed to the successful proposals for the H2020-MSCA, IRC and SFI.

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Furqan Rustam

Furqan Rustam

Research Assistant

Furqan Rustam holds an M.S.C.S. degree from Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology, Pakistan. He has research experience as a Research Assistant at the Fareed Computing and Research Center, KFUEIT, and has worked as a Lecturer at the University of Management and Technology, Lahore. Currently, he is pursuing a Ph.D. at the School of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Ireland, focusing on network security and machine learning. His research interests include machine learning, NLP, image processing, and computer security. Furqan is a Research Assistant in this project, where he is developing robust machine learning-based tools for detecting cyber threats in a water distribution network.

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Mohd. Usman Saeed Khan

Mohd Usman Saeed Khan

Research Assistant

Usman is a Research Master’s student at UCD School of Civil Engineering. He holds a Master’s degree in Hydraulic Structures from Aligarh Muslim University in India. He works as a Research Assistant on the TROCI project, focusing on developing a digital twin for water distribution networks.

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News & Updates

Keep up to date with the TROCI project's activities via our twitter page (opens in a new window)https://twitter.com/Troci2023 (@Troci2023).

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