03 / RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS
Our engineering perspective is informed by research across physical systems, intelligent computing and security. Explore the original work, evidence and publication records across six themes.
A SELECTED PORTFOLIO
14 research contributions 2011–2026
Academic and collaborative work by Carl Dickinson, Shishir Nagaraja and their co-authors. Each entry identifies its publication status and links to the original record, with institutional attribution retained.
01 / RESEARCH THEME
Evidence from connected testbeds and measured energy use informs the design of dependable sensing systems.
Published conference paper
ACM TAS ’23 · 2023
A connected agricultural testbed brings sensing, communication and data trust into the same engineering context.
First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems, article 22, pp. 1–13. Published 11 July 2023. Academic author and institutional attribution is retained in the linked original paper and repository record.
Published workshop paper
IEEE DCOSS-IoT / LS-NoT · 2026
Long-running agricultural sensing informed a controlled comparison of LoRaWAN communication energy and whole-node power budgets.
IEEE DCOSS-IoT 2026, LS-NoT workshop, pp. 792–799, 22–24 June 2026. DOI: 10.1109/DCOSS-IoT69657.2026.00122. The linked author version retains the original institutional affiliations.
02 / RESEARCH THEME
Learning systems need evaluation that considers deployment constraints, uncertainty and deliberate interference.
Published conference paper
BMVC · 2025
Detection, segmentation and image-based pole-lean estimation support the interpretation of infrastructure imagery.
36th British Machine Vision Conference, BMVA, 12 pages. Published 24 November 2025. University of Strathclyde research.
Published journal survey
ACM Computing Surveys · 2016
A survey examines machine-learning approaches to malware command-and-control detection and their exposure to adversarial evasion.
Volume 49, issue 3, article 59, 38 pages. Published 2016. Author and institutional attribution is retained in the original article and repository record.
Preprint
arXiv:2607.20280 · 2026
A study of how network disruption and weak authentication combine to undermine collaborative learning systems.
Author preprint, 22 July 2026. School of Computing, Newcastle University. No later peer-reviewed publication was verified for this selection.
03 / RESEARCH THEME
Security analysis becomes more useful when it accounts for control behaviour and the physical process.
Published conference paper
IEEE COINS · 2023
A water-process testbed connects control equipment, sensors and actuators to practical industrial-security evaluation.
IEEE International Conference on Omni-layer Intelligent Systems. Published 23 July 2023. Academic research documented by the University of Strathclyde; full affiliations appear in the original paper.
Published workshop paper
ACM CPSIoTSec ’21 · 2021
Compromised network control can disrupt industrial timing and interfere with the behaviour of physical processes.
CPSIoTSec 2021, pp. 63–68, published 15 November 2021. University of Bristol, Lancaster University and University of Strathclyde. Author order follows the manuscript’s ACM reference format.
Preprint
arXiv:2409.16536 · 2024
Transient responses link the identity of an actuator to the behaviour of the physical process it influences.
Author preprint submitted 25 September 2024. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2409.16536. Original affiliations appear in the linked manuscript.
04 / RESEARCH THEME
Independent observations and communication traces provide different views of what a robot is doing.
Published workshop paper
IEEE TPS-ISA / SR-CIST · 2025
Acoustic emissions provide a passive signal for checking whether observed robot movements match intended workflows.
2025 IEEE 7th International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems, and Applications (TPS-ISA), SR-CIST workshop, pp. 489–499. IEEE publication metadata dated 12 November 2025. DOI: 10.1109/TPS-ISA67132.2025.00059. Newcastle University and Sapphire.
Published poster paper
ACM WiSec · 2022
Traffic analysis investigates whether encrypted communication still exposes information about robotic movements.
Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks, pp. 298–300. Published 16 May 2022. University of Strathclyde. This three-page poster is distinct from the longer “Reconstructing Robot Operations” preprint.
05 / RESEARCH THEME
Physical characteristics create opportunities to investigate identity beyond software identifiers.
Published journal article
ACM Digital Threats: Research and Practice · 2023
Acoustic fingerprints investigate device identity through physical characteristics rather than software credentials alone.
Volume 4, issue 2, article 20, 2023; first published online 15 March 2022. Full author and institutional attribution appears in the linked published article.
06 / RESEARCH THEME
Privacy and security mechanisms need to be understood in their wider system context.
Published conference paper
ACM WiSec · 2021
Acoustic characteristics within received speech reveal a privacy question that transport encryption alone does not resolve.
Proceedings of the 14th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks, pp. 323–334. Published 21 June 2021. University of Strathclyde research.
Published conference paper
Information Hiding / Springer LNCS · 2011
Research into covert communication examines how social-network interactions can conceal malicious coordination.
Information Hiding, 13th International Conference, IH 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 6958, pp. 299–313. Published 2011. Full affiliations appear in the original chapter.
Conference programme contribution
MobiSec · 2025
An investigation of interactions between anti-malware software and privacy-enhancing technologies.
MobiSec 2025 programme, 18 December 2025. Newcastle University and CAME Entrotec Ltd.
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